About Tavares, Florida

Tavares is a waterfront network that offers an assortment of exercises and occasions. Downtown guests will discover a diversion area that has a worldwide arrangement of eateries, bars and music scenes. Additionally in midtown Tavares, is Wooton Park, home to the Tavares Seaplane Base, the youngsters’ Splash Park and in excess of 16 significant network occasions every year.

The city was established by paper and railroad man Alexander St. Clair-Abrams in 1880 and named for a Portuguese progenitor. In 1883 a mailing station was set up, which was trailed by an inn, three stores, a sawmill, and eight cabins in 1884. While St. Clair-Abrams didn’t accomplish his fantasy that Tavares become the state capital of Florida (Tallahassee has held the spot since 1823), in 1887 the city was named the seat of Lake County. St. Clair-Abrams later sanctioned a railroad to run from Tavares to Orlando. In 1919, Tavares joined as a town.

The Tavares Seaplane Base is a city-claimed, public-use seaplane base situated on Lake Dora in Tavares. The base is mainstream and offers ascend to the city’s epithet, “America’s Seaplane City”.

Make a trip for lunch, or remain the end of the week, and appreciate a seaplane ride, take a boat visit, or discover which chronicled figures are frequenting downtown on the Séance Ghost Tours. Load up the Orange Blossom Cannonball and take an excursion back in time on a unique 1907 steam motor. Known as the film train, it has showed up in various motion pictures and has been ridden by many Hollywood beginnings.