
The first train depot in Lakeland on the north side
of what is now Munn Park about 1890.
It was built by Abraham Munn at a cost of $2500 in 1884 to lure the railroad to
Lakeland
and assure its permanence as a community. This structure, like its two
immediate
successors, was destroyed by fire. Fire was the constant enemy of the
city's
early wooden structures.