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Website. www .tavares .org. Tavares ( / tʌvˈɛəriz /, tuh-VAIR-ees) is a city and the county seat of Lake County, Florida. [4] The population at the 2020 census was 19,003, [5] and in 2019 the population was estimated to be 17,749. [6] It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area .
The Tavares and Gulf Railroad was first incorporated in 1881 as the Tavares, Apopka and Gulf Railway. As its name suggests, it was intended to run from Central Florida southwest to the Gulf of Mexico near Fort Myers but it never made it that far. Construction began on July 15, 1885, from Ellsworth Junction and 12 miles of the line was complete ...
Tavares, Eustis & Gulf Railroad. The Tavares, Eustis & Gulf Railroad ( TE&G ), advertised as the Orange Blossom Cannonball, was a tourist railroad company operating excursion trains on historic track owned by the Florida Central Railroad, [1] from October 2011 to late March 2017. It had stops in three cities in the northern portion of Central ...
The Duncan House, or Harry C. Duncan House, is a historic home in Tavares, Florida, United States. It is located at 426 Lake Dora Drive. On August 8, 1997, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The home is notable as an example of the Colonial Revival style of architecture [2] and was designed by Katharine Cotheal Budd ...
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The St. Johns and Lake Eustis Railway was chartered in 1879 and construction started at Astor on the St. Johns River. The line was built 3 ft ( 914 mm) narrow gauge and its rails passed through Altoona, Umatilla, and Fort Mason before reaching Eustis, 27 miles, in 1880. Construction continued southward through Tavares, reaching Lane Park on Big ...
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The Old Lake County Courthouse (constructed in 1922) is a historic courthouse in Tavares, Florida, located at 315 West Main Street. On September 25, 1998, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places . The Lake County Historical Museum is located on the first floor of the courthouse. The museum's exhibits focus on the county's ...