The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-11-14
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fifteen years later. He with P. R.
Trammell and the Rev. P. R. McCrary
walked down to Lake Wire shore one
evening and decided while there that
the town should be named Lakeland.
Dr. DeRieux was one of the founders
Of Lodge 81 Of the f. A. M. and the
first to hold the Office of Worshipful
Master in this lodge. His wife found
ed the first Methodist Sunday School
and it was held in her home on Lake
Bonnet where the Getzen grove is
now.
Mrs. Fannie Vineyard, wife Of DR..
Vineyard was the first and only post
mistress we have ever had in Lake
land She was the first person to
hold a post Office position and served
for eight or nine years.
Judge Epps Tucker has in his pos.
session the receipt for the first taxes
collected in Lakeland after its incor-
poration. It bears this information
on its face:
No. /. October End, 1885
Received of Judge Epps Tucker
$1,000 for taxes on real and personal
| property. Taxes on Lot G-Block IS
and Lot O-Block 10.
(Signed) BEN PARKS.
Marshal and Tax Collector.
The original receipt does not look
like the above copy for the reason
that Judge Tucker had DR.. F. L..
Brooks, who was considered an ex-
pert penman draw up this receipt
which was done with pen and ink up
on a heavy piece Of blue, glazed-sur-
face cardboard about six by nine inch
es in area which is still being care
fully preserved by the Judge as a
| SOuN6ull duu CuilOolIy.
1t is an interesting fact that Lot A
Block IS Of the Mum Survey was
the first lot sold in Lakeland after II
became a town. This lot was
bought by Captain W. B. Bonackel
who erected the first store Of any
pretensions. This was located on the
property now occupied by the Meltor
and OFT Clothing store and the con
sideration in the deal was fifty dol
lars for the corner lot and one hun
bred dollars for the lot adjoining
which was bought later after prop
erty values had increased. The alb
etract of this property is held by Rob
ert Bryant. This same propert.
twenty or twenty-five years after tn
purchase Of it by Captain Bonacker
sold for $4,000 when the estate wa
settled up after his death.
N. A higgins tells this one:
Back in 1887, there came an awful
" dull time. He was running a saw
mill. Things got so slack that Their
vas not demand for lumber at eve
( $500 per thousand It was durin
this time that the Knights OF Res
I were organized, Higgins, Vint Steven
I son, jeff Thompson and two OF tn
Booth boys beng the most activ
members. The most stringent law
!: the order was that no member shoul
{ work to exceed two hours a day
/ was said that Jeff had broken tn
I law and he was brought before tt
! ledge tribunal but they were unab
y to make a case against him. A
i other man was tried and convicte
I though the only real work the cou
! could find that he did was to no
Z a lamp while his wife split wood
/ The first church organization
boast of a building in which to no
8 their services was the Presbyterii
2 and the first regular pastor so far
. known was Rev. G. E. Jones. 1t sto
where the wooden church of viii
DR.. Stacy is pastor now stands.
Congressman Herbert j. Ora
1 gives us the following information
During the trial of John WIFE
| Booth who assassinated Preside
| Abraham Lincoln the judge advoci
who presided was named Washi
ton D. Holt. He died intestate a
left a considerable sum of MOI
l enough to cause a family SQUAD
| among his nephews and nieces. WI
| the estate was settled up neph
| named Holt took his share OF
4 money and went as far from civil
l ton as possible and settled on
/ shore of Lake Hollingsworth VIII
l the Frank Strack grove is now.
l s. M. Stevens was our pioneer
l the dairy business. His dairy was
1 Gated on or near the present site
his residence "Greylocks," as it
| known, which is one of the lowell
| md finest in Polk County
HI In 1884 there was a fiourishing