{"id":34351,"date":"2023-08-08T14:09:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T18:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=34351"},"modified":"2023-08-08T14:09:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T18:09:25","slug":"august-8th-history-in-lakeland-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/08\/08\/august-8th-history-in-lakeland-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"August 8th History in Lakeland Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1889, E.B. Briggs began construction on Lakeland&#8217;s first power plant, located at the corner of Cedar and Massachusetts. Three years later, Plant Manager Harry C Sloan flipped the switch that lit up Lakeland for the first time, making it the third town in Florida to have electricity. With a population of only 550 people, it was a momentous occasion! On August 8, 1904, Lakeland&#8217;s City Council voted 5-2 to purchase the power plant for $7,500, making it a part of our town&#8217;s history forever. Serving Lakeland for 119 years and counting.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"640\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/363445404_342198971466724_3409920256266437939_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/363445404_342198971466724_3409920256266437939_n.jpg 520w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/363445404_342198971466724_3409920256266437939_n-244x300.jpg 244w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1889, E.B. Briggs began construction on Lakeland&#8217;s first power plant, located at the corner of Cedar and Massachusetts. Three years later, Plant Manager Harry C Sloan flipped the switch&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[5619],"class_list":["post-34351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-august-8th-history-in-lakeland-florida"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}