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Lakeland is a city in Polk County, Florida, part of the Tampa Bay Area, located along Interstate 4 east of Tampa. According to the 2019 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, the city had a population of 112,136. Lakeland is a principal city of the Lakeland–Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistical Area.

European-American settlers arrived in Lakeland from South Carolina in the 1870s. The city expanded in the 1880s subsequent to the arrival of rail service, with the first freedmen railway workers settling here in 1883. They and European immigrants along with came because of further jobs in the large phosphate industry that developed. Lakeland is house to the 1,267-acre Circle B Bar Reserve.[citation needed]

Lakeland is a city in Polk County, Florida, part of the Tampa Bay Area, located along Interstate 4 east of Tampa. According to the 2019 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, the city had a population of 112,136. Lakeland is a principal city of the Lakeland–Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistical Area.

European-American settlers arrived in Lakeland from South Carolina in the 1870s. The city expanded in the 1880s when the initiation of rail service, with the first freedmen railway workers settling here in 1883. They and European immigrants as a consequence came because of new jobs in the large phosphate industry that developed. Lakeland is home to the 1,267-acre Circle B Bar Reserve.[citation needed]