|Florida National Cemetery| Also known as: Bushnell National
Cemetery, U.S. Military Cemetery |6502 SW 102nd Avenue| Postal
Code: 33513 Phone: (352) 793-7740 |Cemetery notes and/or
description:| Florida National Cemetery is located in the
Withlacoochee State Forest, approximately 50 miles north of
Tampa in Sumter County, Fla. Withlacoochee State Forest was
acquired by the federal government from private landowners
between 1936 and 1939 under the provisions of the U.S. Land
Resettlement Administration. The U.S. Forest Service managed the
property until a lease-purchase agreement transferred it to the
Florida Board of Forestry in 1958. Currently, Withlacoochee
State Forest is the second-largest state forest in Florida,
divided into eight distinct tracts of land. In 1842, Congress
encouraged settlement here by establishing the Armed Occupation
Act. The law granted a patent for 160 acres to any man who kept
a gun and ammunition, built a house, cultivated five acres of
the land and remained there for at least five