chicagotribune.com - Travel: Winter Haven, home to Cypress Gardens' water ski shows and now Legoland, turns 100

chicagotribune.com - Travel Headlines from chicagotribune.com Winter Haven, home to Cypress Gardens' water ski shows and now Legoland, turns 100 23 Jun 2011, 5:05 pm By Associated Press 11:05 a.m. CDT, June 23, 2011 WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — Winter Haven is 100 years old. The central Florida city celebrated its 100th birthday Wednesday. City officials wore period costume while listening to period music. They also had birthday cake supplied by Publix super market, whose founder opened the first store in Winter Haven. The city is also home to Cypress Gardens, which was one of Florida's first theme parks known for its water ski shows and botanical gardens. It is now home to Legoland, a 150-acre theme park scheduled to open its doors on Oct. 15. More than 50 million of the iconic plastic Lego building bricks are being incorporated into construction. The Legoland park in Florida is the fifth in the world and the first one on the U.S. east coast. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.