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Pine Level is a ghost town in DeSoto County, Florida, United States. In 1866, the site of what became Pine Level was chosen as the new county seat of Manatee County to replace the Manatee River village of Manatee (now the eastern section of Bradenton). Ostensibly Pine Level was chosen for its more central geographic location, but it may have been chosen to punish Manatee for its Confederate sympathies in the Civil War.[1] In in 1887 Pine Level was included in the new DeSoto County carved out of Manatee County and it became the county seat of the new county and the seat of Manatee County was returned to Manatee. In 1889, however, the county seat of DeSoto County was moved from Pine Level to Arcadia.
Today, all that remains of Pine Level is the
Pine Level Methodist Church, the Indian Mound
Cemetery, and the Pine Level Campground
Cemetery. The site is marked by a State of
Florida bronze marker
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