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Cassadaga, Florida

Unincorporated community in Florida, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Cassadaga is a small unincorporated community in Volusia County, Florida, United States. The community is home to the Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp established by members of the Spiritualist movement. Both within and outside the Spiritualist Camp properties, the community is known for having many mediums and psychics, and has consequently been named the "Psychic Capital of the World".

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The public source identifies “Cassadaga, Florida” as unincorporated community in Florida, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Cassadaga, Florida and Unincorporated.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 58-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Cassadaga, Florida and Unincorporated providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Cassadaga, Florida” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.