Lake County is one of the 67 Counties in the State of Florida. It was created in 1887 and named for the numerous lakes in the area. There are approximately 1,400 lakes in Lake County. The County seat is located in Tavares.There are 14 Incorporated Cities such as Clermont, Eustis, Groveland, Lady Lake, Leesburg, Mount Dora, Tavares, Astatula, Fruitland Park, Mascotte, Minneola, Monteverde and Umatilla. In addition there are 18 unincorporated towns.
    Early in the history of Lake County there were as many as 87 post offices with names such as Dona Vista, Kinderton, Montevista and Sylvania. The first Post Office as established in Okahumpka in 1845 when Florida was still a territory.
The county was formed originally from portions of Orange and Sumter counties. In 1890 the first census was recorded as having 8,034 people in the county. As with many areas in Florida, the main industry was was agriculture until the deadly freezes of 1983, 1985 and 1989.

    Walt Disney's parents were married in a small town named Kismet (the town no longer exists) on December 27, 1887. As a child, he spent many vacations at his Aunt Jessie Perkins home in Paisley. Is it any wonder he eventually came here to build the Walt Disney World Resort.  A classic example of returning to ones roots!
    An exercpt from the Florida Times Union in 1889 described Lake County to perfection. "If one could rise to an altitude where the range of vision could take in the County of the Lakes, he would behold a vision that no one could describe or the brush could reporduce on canvas. Lakes, whose crystal waters mirror back the scenery of the skies, linked together in endless succession by the windings of the Ocklawaha; lakes fringed with sloping hills that glint with the green and gold of a hundred orange groves; lakes flecked with the white winged pleasure craft and burdened with the floating freightage of a region famed for its fertility and fruitfulness. Killarney and Come have their counterparts here in beauty and picturesqueness."  The locals call the hilly country, "the ridge," as the topography is much different and the ridge runs north and south where the citrus crip once flourished!
    Like so many other beautiful areas in Florida, read about them in "rootsweb.com" so worth the visit.
Fishing, boating, golfing and dining are a pleasure here. If antiquing and treasure hunting are part of your pasttimes, Mount Dora has many facilities and annual festivities to fill the bill. Read about it and discover or re-discover Lake County. 
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