1965 Map of Leesburg East

About this map

Leesburg and its surrounding lakefront communities occupy a distinctive aquatic landscape defined by the connections between Lake Griffin, Lake Harris, and Lake Eustis. In the mid-1960s, the area's geography was still heavily influenced by the citrus industry and the Seaboard Coast Line railroad, which provided the primary transport corridors through settlements like Sunnyside and Orange Bend. The presence of several sandpits and claypits near Tomato Hill points to the local extraction economy alongside the developing residential centers of Bassville Park and Lisbon.