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The marker has now been placed at the Mosaic Peace River Park. [8] ... The project site is located adjacent to and south of Lake Hancock in Bartow, Polk County, Florida.
Bartow is located on the South Central Florida Ridge, as classified by the USDA. [46] Most soils in the Bartow area are sandy; other soils have sandy surface layers and clay subsoils, and the eastern outskirts of town have a clay-rich floodplain through which the Peace River flows. Drainage outside of the floodplain ranges from good to ...
CR 640 – Homeland, Homeland Heritage Park, Mosaic Peace River Park: Bartow: 73.861: 118.868: To Main Street (SR 35 north) east / SR 60 – Lake Wales, Mulberry, Historic District: south end of SR 555 overlap; north end of SR 35 overlap; former SR 60 Business: 74.369: 119.685: US 98 north (SR 700 north) to SR 60 – Vero Beach, Lakeland, Tampa ...
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The rest of the way through southern Bartow, US 17/98 remains mostly a commercial strip, but this status begins to diminish around the intersection of South Clear Springs Road. Eventually it enters the unincorporated community of Homeland which contains an intersection with CR 640, where to the east of this you'll find the Mosaic Peace River Park.
The biggest player was the Peace River Phosphate Company (formed in January 1887) which was located in Arcadia by M.M. Knudson of New York and they built a narrow gauge railroad from the works on the river to the interchange with the Florida Southern. This company and its railroad were the first direct ancestor of the future Charlotte Harbor ...
Image of the Peace River. The Peace River is a river in the southwestern part of the Florida peninsula, in the U.S.A. [1] It originates at the juncture of Saddle Creek and Peace Creek northeast of Bartow in Polk County and flows south through Fort Meade (Polk County) Hardee County to Arcadia in DeSoto County and then southwest into the Charlotte Harbor estuary at Punta Gorda in Charlotte County.
[3] [4] At 4,573 acres (18.51 km 2), it is one of the largest lakes in Polk County; the center of the cities of Bartow, Lakeland, and Winter Haven roughly form an equilateral triangle with sides of 12 miles (19 km) and Lake Hancock forms over 25% of that triangle. The lake is shallow, with an average depth of 4 feet (1.2 m) and a maximum depth ...