[dbussone]

Originally Posted by Jima64

Sorry but there are plenty of areas of Florida with rolling hills. Not everything is flat.

And central FL, especially the Ocala area, is known for those rolling hills.

[RickeyD]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeellll, I do have to confess. I was parked "on the bridge" with my bride, watching the sunset, enjoying some music and a cocktail. I did not plan ahead appropriately, and well, I had to go. So, let's just say, there is Pee in Lake Sumter.

Hope your bride didn't partake and drove you home.

[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by RickeyD

Hope your bride didn't partake and drove you home.

[twoplanekid]

Not much showing on a 1979 aeronautical chart or the 1939 chart

[twoplanekid]

And from a 1935 chart

[graciegirl]

Captain Hugo, the OP, has posted twice and sailed off into the sunset.


We are all still here, reading this thread and many of us are enjoying the pretty views around Lake Sumter. I don't know what the ocean going vessels would do without the lighthouse.


I love the whimsy, the careful planning of vistas that please my eye and sometimes get captured on my canvases. I love just about everything about this place.


Sign me


A SATISFIED CUSTOMER.

[RickeyD]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Captain Hugo, the OP, has posted twice and sailed off into the sunset.


We are all still here, reading this thread and many of us are enjoying the pretty views around Lake Sumter. I don't know what the ocean going vessels would do without the lighthouse.


I love the whimsy, the careful planning of vistas that please my eye and sometimes get captured on my canvases. I love just about everything about this place.


Sign me


A SATISFIED CUSTOMER.

Or like his counterpart Captain Nemo he may have submerged under Lake Sumter never to return again.

[DonH57]

Under Lake Sumter may be a UFO base for all we know.

[RickeyD]

Originally Posted by DonH57

Under Lake Sumter may be a UFO base for all we know.

Or the Kool Aid manufacturing facility.

[justjim]

It could be a legend but I was told that The Villages Developer orginally attempted to connect Lake Minoa, Black Lake and what is now called Lake Sumter but couldn't get permits to do so. Why he couldn't get a permit I guess was environmental.

There would be considerable water run off from Sumter Landing so "accommodations" for this water run off had to be made. What was done is really very nice IMHO.

[jblum315]

Originally Posted by RickeyD

Don't you mean Sumpter ?

There is no "p" in Sumter

[jblum315]

That Wikipedia article is very inaccurate and should be corrected

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by jblum315

That Wikipedia article is very inaccurate and should be corrected

I did say it needs a lot of work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Villages,_Florida

[virgind]

Kind of like the insurance commercial ( Everybody knows that)