A small town in the Florida Panhandle has long tried to live down its special place in the history of insurance fraud. “By the time the early 1960s rolled around, according to the Tampa Bay Times, Vernon, Florida was responsible for roughly two-thirds of all loss-of-limb-related insurance claims in the United States.” I’ve written on the story a number of times, and Dan Lewis of the oft-recommended-here Now I Know website penned this account in 2012 which I seem to have overlooked at the time, an omission I remedy herewith.
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What is it about towns named Vernon?I recently learned of the particular politics of Vernon California. It’s entertaining for those of us on the East coast who never heard the story. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon,_California
Vernon is small, but it’s not the smallest. The smallest incorporated municipality in the US is Buford, Wyoming: population 1.
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/32954