The Brooksville Ridge is a small plateau in Hernando and Pasco Counties which ranges approximately from Brooksville southeast to Dade City. The Brooksville Ridge has several high points over 200 feet in elevation which are among the highest in peninsular Florida. The Brooksville Ridge has various former State Road alignments and communities that have largely disappeared to time. Ayers is located at the corner of US Route 41 and Hernando County Route 576/Ayers Road near Masaryktown. The first reference to Ayers I could find is from a 1936 Hernando County Map where it appears as a siding of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad at the corner of US 19/41 and Ayers Road. 1936 Hernando County Road Map Given rail sidings have had a reduced purpose to exist since the rise of diesel locomotives suffice to say there is quite a bit of abandoned commercial/industrial structures to be found in Ayers. Interestingly when Hernando County Route 576 original used Ol...
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