Lake Okeechobee The description speaks to the migrant African American laborers working in this area during the agricultural season in the 1920s. Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades are settings in Patrick D. Smith's novel "A Land Remembered", chronicling the effects of modernization upon the lake and the Seminole tribe. Lake Okeechobee is famously mentioned in Hank Williams Jr.'s number one Billboard country hit song "Dixie on My Mind", in 1981. When comparing country life to big city life: ""I've always heard lots about the big apple / So I thought I'd come up here and see. / But all I've seen so
Lake Calabay Lake Calabay Lake Calabay is a manmade dredged freshwater lake in the residential community of Hunter's Creek, Florida, just inside the south border of Orange County, Florida. This lake was a somewhat swampy area prior to its construction about 1993. It was built as a feature for the Hunter's Creek development. Three different gated neighborhoods were built around Lake Calabay. To the east and north is Calabay Cove, with 104 homes constructed from 1993 to 1998. On the west is Montara, with twenty-four homes built between 1994 and 1996. On the south is Ashton, with thirty-four homes built between 1996