The wide sidewalks of Homosassa Springs recall the 1920s Florida Land Boom in Citrus County. In 1924, at the height of the boom, the Florida West Coast Development Company bought several thousand acres in what is now Homosassa Springs and set out to create a "City Beautiful." Locally called New Homosassa, the community was laid out with 80- to 100-foot-wide streets and nine-foot-wide sidewalks. Plans also included plazas, parks, boulevards, a golf course, three country clubs, and 700 home sites. This ambitious design reflected the City Beautiful Movement in urban planning, whose supporters in the late 1890s and early 1900s believed that a beautiful, harmonious setting would improve quality of life. After the boom collapsed in 1926, the grand plans were quickly abandoned. Most of the planned amenities were never built, and only two commercial buildings and a few homes in the Mediterranean Revival style popular during the boom years were constructed. The surviving sidewalk remains a reflection of the City Beautiful aesthetic once envisioned for Homosassa Springs.