{{Short description|Location in Florida, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Notability|Place|date=May 2024}}
'''Walinwa''' was a community by Lake Weohyakapka, Florida. The lake's name is translated as walk-in-water, and the settlement's name is a condensed form of those English words. Turpentine was produced in the area.
In 1910, a Seaboard Air Line Railroad connection was built to the town.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MM2ph3S2V2cC&dq=walinwa+florida&pg=PA92|title=Seaboard Air Line Railway: Steam Boats, Locomotives, and History|first=Richard E.|last=Prince|date=20 July 2018|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0253336958|via=Google Books}}</ref> In 1918, the community was also served by the Kissimmee River Railway, a steam rail line in Polk County, Florida stretching 7.26 miles from Walinwa to Nalaca in an area that developed with logging, sawmill, and turpentine industries. A Seaboard subsidiary it ran from Walinwa to Nalaca.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fCYM5WaJH3UC&dq=walinwa+florida&pg=PA102 A Short History of Florida Railroads] page 102</ref> The rail line extended from the Seaboard branch line connecting Plant City and Walinwa. It also served the logging and mill town of Sumica and the turpentine settlement of Nalaka, Florida.
Kissimmee River Railway was incorporated December 3, 1917. It was operated by the United States Railroad Administration. The turpentine town is mentioned glancingly in a historical marker for SUMICA.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMXC4E|title=Sumica - Florida Historical Markers on Waymarking.com|website=www.waymarking.com}}</ref>
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Polk County, Florida Category:Unincorporated communities in Florida {{PolkCountyFL-geo-stub}}