Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Mount Plymouth, FL

Mount Plymouth is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in eastern Lake County, Florida, within the Orlando-Kissimmee metropolitan area.

Mount Plymouth was developed during the Florida land boom of the 1920s as a planned golf resort community centered on the Mount Plymouth Hotel and Country Club.

The Historic Mount Plymouth Hotel was built in 1926 at a cost of $350,000, had 150 rooms, and even had its own airfield for arriving guests.

Guests at the Mount Plymouth Hotel included Al Capone, baseball stars Babe Ruth and Connie Mack, and singer Kate Smith.

Four 18-hole golf courses modeled on St. Andrews in Scotland were planned for Mount Plymouth, and its boulevards were named after famous Scottish places, but the Florida real estate crash of 1926 stopped three of the four courses from being completed.

The one golf course that was completed, the Mount Plymouth Golf Club, operated for decades before closing in 2007.

In 1959, the old hotel became Florida Central Academy, a boarding school that began as a boys' school and admitted girls from 1971; after the school closed in 1983, the abandoned building was destroyed by fires in 1986 and 1987.

As of the 2020 census, Mount Plymouth had a population of 4,417, with 1,666 households and a median age of 40.2 years.

Florida State Road 46 runs through the center of Mount Plymouth, leading west about 7 miles to Mount Dora and east about 17 miles to Sanford, while the community borders the city of Apopka to the south.

Mount Plymouth has a humid Central Florida climate with about 54 inches of rain a year, and its inland location has allowed temperatures to fall as low as 15 degrees Fahrenheit.