Largo

Largo, city, Pinellas county, west-central Florida, U.S., near Clearwater Harbor and just south of Clearwater. The Spanish explorers Pánfilo de Narváez (1528) and Hernando de Soto (1539) visited the region. The site, first settled about 1866, was named for nearby Lake Largo (“Big Lake,” drained in the 1930s) or for Largo, Scotland. In 1888 a post office was established and the Orange Belt Railroad arrived. The town’s population grew rapidly after 1960 as it developed...