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Lake Mary is a suburban city that is located in the Greater Orlando metropolitan Place in Seminole County, Florida, United States, and is located in Central Florida. The population was 13,822 at the 2010 census.

Lake Mary was named after Mary Sundell, the wife of Reverend J.F. Sundell, who settled upon the northern shores of the lake. Lake Mary started as a village of two tiny settlements called Bent’s Station (located on the north shore of Crystal Lake) and Belle Fontaine. They were located along the South Florida Railroad which ran amid Sanford and Orlando. The area was an agricultural community and early settlers included lumbermen, turpentine workers, families from Fort Reed (Sanford) who had received land grants, and Swedish families, who were mainly yellow growers. By the get older the Place became known as Lake Mary, it was developed by a tight-rope walker and chemist named Frank Evans, who established in the area in 1882. The first Lake Mary Post Office was customary in February 1887. Evans built the native Lake Mary Elementary School, along like many trailer buildings and other homes. In 1923, he founded the Chamber of Commerce and he became a Seminole County Commissioner in 1926. The Lake Mary city hall building was created in 1946. The city incorporated in August 1973. Rated by Money magazine as the #4 best place to flesh and blood in America in the August 2007 issue. It currently has a history museum in the Lake Mary Chamber of Commerce Building.

Lake Mary is located at 28°45′27″N 81°19′45″W / 28.75750°N 81.32917°W / 28.75750; -81.32917 (28.757622, –81.329038).