page_title: Lakeland, Florida
section_title: Historic districts
hierarchical_section_title: Lakeland, Florida / Culture / Historic districts
caption_attribution_description: Lakeland: Munn Park Historic District: Southeast entrance to the park
context_page_description: Lakeland is a city in Polk County, Florida, along Interstate 4 east of Tampa. The westernmost city in Polk County, it is part of the Tampa Bay Area. According to the 2019 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, the city had a population of 112,136. Lakeland is a principal city of the Lakeland–Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistical Area.
  Native Americans lived in the area from soon after the end of the last ice age until the end of the Second Seminole War. European-American settlers arrived in Lakeland from South Carolina in the 1870s. The city expanded in the 1880s with the arrival of rail service, with the first freedmen railway workers settling here in 1883. They and European immigrants also came because of new jobs in the large phosphate industry that developed. Lakeland is home to the 1,267-acre Circle B Bar Reserve.
context_section_description: Beacon Hill-Alta Vista Residential District
  Biltmore-Cumberland Historic District
  Dixieland Historic District
  East Lake Morton Residential District
  Lake Hunter Terrace Historic District
  Munn Park Historic District
  South Lake Morton Historic District
caption: Munn Park
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