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Located in the western section of Lakeland, on Lakeland Road near Rhode Island Ave., the Elks Home was owned and operated by the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, an organization created in 1899 in answer to the exclusion of African…

Violetta Sharps, Miss Lakeland 1963, greets the crowd during that year’s Elks Day Parade (upper left of left page). Among the groups marching that day was Lakeland’s own majorettes. This parade was one of many that took place over the years in the…

J. Chesley Mack is seated second from the left in this 1957 photograph of the College Park Town Council. He served as a member of that legislative body from 1945 until 1957. Mack was one of the first in Lakeland to complete a course of higher…