Subject: Central Lakeland - Conservation Areapage 3

Child seated on steps

Playing in the street on 54th Avenue

At the home of Julia and Harrold Pitts on Pierce Avenue

Embry AME Church

To children seated on stepd

In the garden of the Lewis home on Pierce Avenue

Two children

Navahoe St

John Calvary Johnson came to Lakeland with his wife, Sarah Butler Johnson, and his mother around 1890. They along with the Brooks family were the earliest African-American residents to live on the west side of the railroad tracks in Lakeland. Johnson was a prime mover in the establishment of the First Baptist Church and the first school in the community. All five of his children were born in Lakeland. His eldest child, Mary, known as “Mamie,” was born in 1892 and remained in the community until her death in 1976. (Courtesy of Roy Few.)

Airport, industrial area, lake and portion of Lakeland

Touched up image of Green Home, 54th Avenue

Conjunctural location of first location of First Baptist Church on Hopkins Atlas