Tocoi was the site of a ferry landing and a local rail line to St. Augustine, Florida.
The nearby Tocoi Creek is a tributary of the St. Johns River.
[1] A commercial Spanish moss factory was located in the area.
[1] Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward's 1879 book Sealed Orders features Tocoi and its train station as a setting.
[2] Harriet Beecher Stowe, a 19th-century American author famed for her abolitionist writings, described her arrival by steamship at Tocoi and the train journey to Saint Augustine in her book, Palmetto Leaves (1873).