dixieland: Historic Dixieland in Downtown Lakeland
- 02/10/10 03:13 PM
Lakeland, Florida's downtown area, known as Dixieland even to this day, was started by Lakeland real estate developers Henry B. Carter and C.W. Deen over a century ago, in 1907. They had purchased 160 acres between Lake Morton and Lake Hollingsworth and decided to call it Dixieland. It is believed that the name was in reference to the fact that this was the first subdivision to be developed south of downtown Lakeland. Dixieland's streets were in place and a water system installed by the time Carter and Deen inserted ads in local newspapers touting Dixieland as a "fashionable suburb" of Lakeland (0 comments)
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