Alligator-Shaped Xbox Will Be Snapped Up by One Gamer
This iconic Florida critter appears to have swallowed an Xbox just a couple of weeks before the release of GTA 6.
Nov 4, 2026Open source
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Lake Wales, Florida. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Polk. Associated ZIP codes: 33853, 33859, 33898.
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Tampa-born Florida Avenue Brewing Co. permanently closes its Seminole Heights location
The craft brewery’s closure aligns with an increasing trend of similar taproom closures throughout Tampa Bay.
Nov 4, 2026Open source
GOP sweep: Uthmeier, Ingoglia, Simpson win Florida Cabinet races
Republicans on Tuesday night swept the races for attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner.
Nov 4, 2026Open source
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Lake Wales is in Polk County, Florida.
Region: Central Florida
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33853, 33859, 33898
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Alligator-Shaped Xbox Will Be Snapped Up by One Gamer
This iconic Florida critter appears to have swallowed an Xbox just a couple of weeks before the release of GTA 6.
Nov 4, 2026Open source
Tampa-born Florida Avenue Brewing Co. permanently closes its Seminole Heights location
The craft brewery’s closure aligns with an increasing trend of similar taproom closures throughout Tampa Bay.
Nov 4, 2026Open source
GOP sweep: Uthmeier, Ingoglia, Simpson win Florida Cabinet races
Republicans on Tuesday night swept the races for attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner.
Nov 4, 2026Open source
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Lake Wales, in Polk County, lies in an area early surveyors considered uninhabitable. In 1879 Sidney Irving Wailes, an agent of the Florida Land and Improvement Company, surveyed the land again and renamed a lake then called Watts Lake as Lake Wailes.
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In 1902 G. V. Tillman scouted the region, saw promise for turpentine, citrus and other industries, and conceived the idea of settling the land around the lake. The city was established in 1911 and 1912, planned by the Lake Wales Land Company, which used the spelling Wales for the city, though the lake is still generally spelled Wailes. Civil engineer Allen Carleton Nydegger and his crew camped on Crystal Lake for months laying out the new town. Arriving by train after a rainy fall, Nydegger later recalled, he had feared Florida was all swamp, with snakes and alligators everywhere, until the sun came out just before Lake Wales and banished the idea. Sources Wikipedia: Lake Wales, Florida
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27.9037340, -81.5488050
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2:08 PM America/New_York
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