{"id":58887,"date":"2025-11-13T18:42:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=58887"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:42:09","slug":"lakeland-residents-invited-to-morehead-community-plaza-dedication-honoring-local-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/11\/13\/lakeland-residents-invited-to-morehead-community-plaza-dedication-honoring-local-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Residents Invited to Morehead Community Plaza Dedication Honoring Local History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The City of Lakeland, Florida, will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Morehead Community Plaza on Thursday, November 20, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. The event will be at Moorehead Circle Entrance 1, 701 Lime St. The ceremony recognizes Lakeland\u2019s first Black neighborhood. The city uses both spellings of the community\u2019s name\u2014Morehead and Moorehead\u2014to acknowledge its history.<\/p>\n\n\n

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City Manager Shawn Sherrouse said the new plaza highlights the contributions of the Morehead community. He described it as a place representing strength, faith, and family. The dedication is part of the city\u2019s efforts to preserve local history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lakeland was incorporated in 1885. It is now one of Florida\u2019s largest inland cities, with a population of about 130,000. The city is known for its central location and public utilities, including Lakeland Electric. Residents can find more information about the city and the event on Lakeland\u2019s official website and social media.Visit here for more details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The City of Lakeland, Florida, will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Morehead Community Plaza on Thursday, November 20, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. The event will be at Moorehead… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"7591","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDJcL2NpdHktb2YtbGFrZWxhbmQtcG5nLndlYnA_Zml0PTI4OSUyQzg3JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiTGFrZWxhbmQgUmVzaWRlbnRzIEludml0ZWQgdG8gTW9yZWhlYWQgQ29tbXVuaXR5IFBsYXphIERlZGljYXRpb24gSG9ub3JpbmcgTG9jYWwgSGlzdG9yeSIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiaGlnaHdheSIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.l8fCYKyn6e55JjbfqSwIFkli0i5cqG17o5_akM8FnEMMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":54104,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/city-of-lakeland-png.webp","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[7591],"tags":[12524],"class_list":["post-58887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-of-lakeland","tag-lakeland-residents-invited-to-morehead-community-plaza-dedication-honoring-local-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58887","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=58887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58888,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58887\/revisions\/58888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}