Babson Park, Florida
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Babson Park is a census-designated place in Polk County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, Babson Park had a population of 1,330. It is also the home of Webber International University.
The Babson Park Post Office as seen from the entrance on SR 17.
Roger Babson
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Roger Ward Babson was an American entrepreneur, Georgist economist, and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He is best remembered for predicting the Wall Street crash of 1929 and
Babson Park, Florida
…in the 1890s. Later, the community was known as Crooked Lake after the adjacent body of water of the same name. In 1923, economist and entrepreneur Roger Babson purchased approximately 400 acres of land in the Crooked Lake townsite with the intention of creating his own town. The town was soon renamed from…
Babson in 1918
Isaac Newton's apple tree grove at Babson College in 2025
An example of a "Babson Boulder" at Dogtown