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Around 1880 a widely traveled Englishman, John Bingham, obtained 160 acres of land on a high knoll between Eagle Lake, Spirit Lake, and Crystal Lake.
He named the lake upon which he built his two room log cabin "Eagle Lake" because of an Eagle living in a nearby tall pine. He also named his new home "The Eagles Nest". On March 16, 1882, Bingham wrote in his diary," I can concieve of no natural scenery more beautiful than that environing Eagle Lake." John Bingham was 53 when he came to this area and he passed away at 90 in 1917.
In 1882, at the same time John Bingham was settling on the Northwest shore of the lake, Louisa McLeod ( a widow from Alabama) purchased 115 acres of land for $1.25 an acre. This land was sold and resold serveral times, and in 1887 the Town of Eagle Lake was laid out on this property and became the center of town.
From such humble beginnings Eagle Lake began to grow. In a conversation I had years ago with Mr. Bingham's Granddaughters, Blanche Gay and Helen, I was told about their walking to school in Eagle Lake all the way from Crystal Lake Road. There was a school house at what is now our boat landing on Eagle Lake. From reading various historical accounts there was a turpentine mill, a brickyard, two citrus packing houses ( both destroyed by fire in the 40's). One record states that 125,000 crates of tomatoes were shipped from Eagle Lake in the year 1893-1894. Also, the first ever grapefruit sectionalizing plant was in Eagle Lake.
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