Bannon Island, a storied pioneer island in the middle of Polk County’s Lake Marion, is now on the market for the first time in over a hundred years.
Located at 7950 Bannon Fish Camp Rd. in southeast Haines City, the 20-acre island’s first known resident was Echo Emathla Chipco, also known as the Seminole tribe’s Chief Chipco, who maintained a camp on the island until the 1880s, according to the Lakeland Ledger.
A few years later, the island was purchased for $1.25 an acre by an Irish-born, Catholic from New York named Partick Bannon. Despite being a well-known carpenter who was reportedly recruited by Thomas Edison to build phonograph cabinets, Bannon and his wife Annie Marie Ryan decided to head south to Florida following a bad bout with pneumonia, says the publication…