Mountain Lake, Florida

Entrance to Mountain Lake Estates Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993

Mountain Lake is a private community north of the City of Lake Wales, Florida, United States. It was founded in 1915 and contains a golf course designed in 1916 by Seth Raynor.^[1] Mountain Lake is located in the ridge country of Central Florida, and was developed by Baltimorean Frederick Ruth. With proximity close to trains from the North which would bring residents down for ‘the season’, Ruth assembled 3500 acres and engaged Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to lay out 600 acres of the property for the residences and Seth Raynor to design the golf course. This same trio also went on to design and develop Fishers Island in the 1920s. There are some notes in the archives at Mountain Lake that Ruth spoke to Donald Ross (who did nearby Lake Wales Country Club) prior to selecting Raynor, however Raynor was chosen and Mountain Lake became the first development of its kind.^[2]

References

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↑ "Introduction to Mountain Lake". Mountain Lake Country Club. Retrieved 2009-11-30.
↑ "Sweeney, Mike - Blending Old and New in Renovating a Classic". Golf Club Atlas. 1920-10-02. Retrieved 2013-07-17.

Coordinates: 28°28′50″N 82°18′41″W / 28.4805133°N 82.3112724°W / 28.4805133; -82.3112724

Municipalities and communities of Polk County, Florida, United States

County seat: Bartow

Cities	Auburndale Bartow Davenport Eagle Lake Fort Meade Frostproof Haines City Lake Alfred Lakeland Lake Wales Mulberry Polk City Winter Haven

Towns	Dundee Hillcrest Heights Lake Hamilton

Village	Highland Park

CDPs	Alturas Babson Park Bradley Junction Brewster Combee Settlement Crooked Lake Park Crystal Lake Cypress Gardens Four Corners‡ Fuller Heights Fussels Corner Grenelefe Highland City Homeland Inwood Jan Phyl Village Kathleen Lakeland Highlands Loughman Medulla Poinciana‡ Wahneta Waverly Willow Oak

Unincorporated communities	Eaton Park Gibsonia Indian Lake Estates Lakeshore Mountain Lake Nalcrest Nichols Pittsburg River Ranch Socrum Winston

Ghost town	Acton

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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