Lake Placid

Population2,424 (2021)

A Pioneer Memory: Poem by Bessie M. Peeples

This poem was provided to me by Merrilou Joanne Wilder Inks, granddaughter of Fannie Green Lastinger. The Lastinger family was the first to homestead in Lake Placid around 1890. A PIONEER MEMORYBy: Bessie Mae Lastinger Peeples-Deckhut(Daughter of Joshua Lastinger, who homesteaded the...

Hicoria, Florida went up in smoke

Hicoria went from sleepy settlement to boom town overnight in 1929. Six years later, it again retreated into obscurity.

Lastinger Family were first to settle pioneer Lake Placid

Joshua Berrien Lastinger decided that his idea of a garden paradise was the wild lake country of southern Highlands County. One of the few surviving photos of Lake Placid’s first white settler, Joshua Berrien Lastinger, comes from a 1904 family reunion....

What happened at N*****town Knoll?

Until the 1990s, this offensively named settlement appeared on Florida maps, but its origins were lost. Until now. Warning: This article contains offensive racial slurs for historical and academic purposes. It will be kept to a minimum, but reader discretion is...