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After a succession of owners, Joseph Lobrano sold to John	Ioor	and	F. C.
Bordage, Sr. for $1, 000 in 1897.	These
gentlemen have been commemorated over the years by having two of the principal streets of Clermont named for them. The latter would appear	to	have	been
"Professor" Bordage,	who	had	been
principal of the Waveland public school and who had served as county deputy court clerk and assessor.
These owners, in 1898, filed a new plat with the county, calling the area simply "Clermont City." This was not simply short for the current name, for the fact was that there was no harbor at the time, but only what was a low-lying marsh area.
The town evidently began to take shape in the next few years, for by 1910, there were 15 resident property owners, and five non-residents. It was in that year that a new entity appeared, by the name of Gulf Coast Development Corporation, which claimed to own 99% of Clermont City. This company filed a new plat with the county as Clermont Harbor. In the process, plans were detailed to widen streets and "to make the low part of said lands into a magnificent lake..." for which "it has contracted for digging of lake at a cost of over $25,000."
By the following year, the company borrowed $30,000 on a bond issue, with
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