5-696: Lake Monroe may refer to one of the following places in the United States: Lake Monroe, Florida , unincorporated community Lake Monroe (Florida) in Florida, a lake on the St. Johns River Lake Monroe (Mississippi) in Monroe County, Mississippi Monroe Lake in Monroe and Brown counties, Indiana [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
10-524: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lake Monroe, Florida Lake Monroe is an unincorporated community in Seminole County , Florida , United States. Its ZIP code is 32747. The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway (JT&KW) completed a bridge over the St. Johns River just north of Lake Monroe in 1886. Later that year
15-594: The Orange Belt Railway connected to the JT&;KW near the bridge, and built a station named "Monroe Station" at the junction. Both the JT&KW and the Orange Belt continued from Monroe Station to Sanford . A real estate development called St. Joseph's Colony was platted on 640 acres near Monroe Station in 1887. The development, promoted by Henry Sanford 's Florida Land and Colonization Company,
20-429: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake_Monroe&oldid=1130242270 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
25-506: Was advertised to German immigrants as a Roman Catholic community, with a town lot set aside for a Catholic chapel. A German Roman Catholic priest, Felix Prosper Swenbergh, was recruited by Sanford to oversee the colony. Swembergh died of yellow fever in 1891, and the chapel was never built. While some Germans did move to the colony, the German character of the community had faded by early in the 20th century. In 1916 an automobile bridge across
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