1800 – Land surveyor Andrew Ellicott working at Point Peter near the mouth of the St. Mary’s River recorded 5 inches of snow on the ground and a temperature of 28 °F on this date. Although rare in Florida, several historic accounts of snowfall in the northern part of the state appear in the records, even as early as 1765 near Jacksonville. Sudden freezing temperatures have been highly detrimental to Florida’s agricultural industry over the years, most notably the “Great Freeze of 1894/95,” which ruined many citrus crops and attributed to the dissolution of many small towns whose primary industry was citrus.