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 Harbor, Florida Lake Harbor, Florida Lake Harbor is a census-designated place (CDP) in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The population was 195 at the 2000 census. It located along the southern banks of Lake Okeechobee, at the beginning of the Miami Canal. John Stretch Park is also located alongside the north end of Lake Harbor and the lake. Lake Harbor is located at (26.686985, -80.807613). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.4 km² (1.3 mi²), all land. As of the census of 2000, there were 195 people, 65 households, and 44 families residing