What is Hull, Florida?
'''Hull, Florida''' is an [[unincorporated area|unincorporated]] [[community]] in [[Southwest]] [[DeSoto County, Florida]]. About 150 [[people]] live there. Hull had a [[creosote]] tie treating plant for the [[Charlotte Harbor]] and Northern Railroad. The [[railroad]] was bought by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad in the 1920s. The Seaboard Railroad kept using the creosote plant through the 1950s. In the late 1920s, Hull became the [[junction]] of a new line of the SAL to [[Fort Myers, Florida|Fort Myers]] and [[Naples, Florida|Naples]]. [[Passenger]] service was done on the branch. This line was stopped in 1953. {{US-geo-stub}} [[Category:Unincorporated communities in Florida]]