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33 unusual facts about Lake County


A Light in the Attic

This led the book to be banned by the Fruitland Park Elementary School in Lake County, Florida.

Adam Benjamin, Jr.

As a state legislator, Mr. Benjamin developed a new code of ethics for legislators, worked on a new state medical malpractice act, and facilitated court reform for the Lake County Superior Court system.

Berrien County, Michigan

Lake County, Illinois (northwest) (water boundary across Lake Michigan)

Castle Danger, Minnesota

Castle Danger is an unincorporated community in Silver Creek Township, Lake County, Minnesota, United States.

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King is a book about Thurgood Marshall's defense of four young black men in Lake County, Florida, who were falsely accused of raping a white woman in 1949.

E. Ray Stevens

Stevens was born Edmund Ray Stevens on June 20, 1869 in Lake County, Illinois.

East Beaver Bay, Minnesota

East Beaver Bay is an unincorporated community in Beaver Bay Township, Lake County, Minnesota, United States.

Eber Brock Ward

Starting around 1852 Ward acquired timber lands along the Pere Marquette River in Lake County, Michigan near the Ludington area.

Esther Rose

In 1910 the family lived in Waldo, Lake County, Minnesota.

Ferrellgas

At the Blue Rhino propane plant (LP gas), owned by Ferrellgas, located in Tavares, Florida in Lake County, a fire broke out at around 10:30 p.m EDT on July 29, 2013.

Franklin B. Sprague

In October 1865, Sprague was leading a patrol of eleven cavalry troopers from C Company of the 1st Oregon Cavalry south of Warner Lake in present day Lake County, Oregon, when they were ambushed by approximately 125 Indians in two groups.

Groveland Four

The Groveland Four (or the Groveland Boys) were four men, Ernest Thomas, Charles Greenlee, Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin, who were falsely accused of rape in Lake County, Florida, USA, in 1948.

Halleck Tustenuggee

Halleck, with a band of seventy warriors, was finally defeated by Federal troops on April 19, 1842, near the settlement of Peliklakaha Hammock (in today's Lake County, Florida), the last battle of the Second Seminole War in Florida.

Hurricane Wilma

In other areas of Central Florida, schools were closed in Flagler, Lake, Orange, and Volusia counties.

Illgen City, Minnesota

Illgen City is an unincorporated community in Beaver Bay Township, Lake County, Minnesota, United States.

Illicium parviflorum

The plant is currently known from fewer than 20 occurrences in Central Florida, within Polk, Marion, Lake, Volusia, and Seminole Counties.

Isabella, Minnesota

Isabella is an unincorporated community in Stony River Township, Lake County, Minnesota, United States.

Jereme Richmond

When the Lake County court learned of this, he was taken to jail on October 21.

Konocti Unified School District

Konocti Unified School District is a public school district based in Lake County, California, United States.

Lake County, Tennessee

Reelfoot Lake occupies much of the northern part of the county.

It was originally the western part of Obion County, but was created as a separate county due to difficulties in crossing the swampy drainages around Reelfoot Lake to reach Obion's county seat.

Lax Lake, Minnesota

Lax Lake is an unincorporated community in Beaver Bay Township, Lake County, Minnesota, United States.

Minnesota State Highway 169

The six-mile (10 km) segment running from Ely to Fall Lake Township was authorized in 1949 and originally designated State Highway 221 until 1953, when State Highway 169 was extended over State Highway 1 to Ely.

Murphy City, Minnesota

Murphy City is an unincorporated community in Stony River Township, Lake County, Minnesota, United States; located within the Finland State Forest.

Orlando International Airport

The community of The Villages in Sumter, Lake, and Marion has shuttles operating between the community and Orlando International Airport.

Sawbill Landing, Minnesota

The center of Sawbill Landing is generally considered at the intersection of Sawbill Landing Road and Dumbbell Road; which is also near the boundary line between Crystal Bay Township and Stony River Township.

Section Thirty, Minnesota

Section Thirty is an unincorporated community in Fall Lake Township, Lake County, Minnesota, United States; located four miles east of Ely; and two miles southeast of Winton.

Silver Creek, Lake County, Minnesota

Silver Creek is an unincorporated community in Silver Creek Township, Lake County, Minnesota, United States.

United States presidential election in Indiana, 2000

Lake County is Gore's best performance, winning with over 60%.

Walter Irvin

Walter Lee Irvin was born in Lake County, Florida.

Warner sucker

This fish is native to shallow lakes and associated marshes and intermittent lakes and creeks in the Warner Valley of Lake County, Oregon.

Wauconda

Wauconda Township, Lake County, Illinois, a township in Lake County, Illinois, United States

William Backhouse Astor, Jr.

Liking the area, in 1874, he purchased a land tract of around 80,000 acres (320 km²) along the St. Johns River north of Orlando, Florida in an area now called Lake County, Florida.


Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake

The Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake is a federally recognized tribe of Pomo Indians in Lake County, California.

Jon DeGuilio

From 1981 until 1989, DeGuilio served as an associate for a Schererville, Indiana law firm, during which time he also served part-time as a deputy prosecutor and public defender for Lake County, Indiana and as a City Councilman (1984–1987) in Hammond.

Oregon Outback

Oregon Outback is an unofficial term generally used to reference the high desert Basin and Range country of the central southern portion of the U.S. state of Oregon and is most of Lake and Klamath County.

Roads and expressways in Chicago

Nearby municipalities such as Gurnee, Park City, and North Chicago continue with the Waukegan numbering pattern, while rural areas in Lake County, Illinois follow the Chicago grid.

Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic Railroad

beginning at Tavares, in Lake County, running thence to Orlando in Orange County, passing through or near Apopka City, thence to such point on the Atlantic coast as the said company by its President and Board of Directors may determine, together with a branch from or near Apopka City, to or near Oakland, on the south side of Lake Apopka.

The Garden of One Thousand Buddhas

The Garden of One Thousand Buddhas is a spiritual site near Arlee, Montana, within the Flathead Indian Reservation in Lake County, Montana.

Vance Hartke

Four year later, after narrowly surviving a primary challenge by freshman Eighth District Congressman Philip Hayes, Hartke was defeated for reelection by Indianapolis Mayor Richard Lugar in a landslide; he only carried one county, Lake County.

WIIL

AugustFest was an annual music festival created and produced by Lakeside Productions, Inc, and sponsored by WIIL and held in the month of August in 2007 and 2008, both times at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Grayslake, Illinois.