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Belle Isle City Hall (Dexter Hall). Photo: Porsche997SBS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

A hall named for a mayor who died in office, a council-manager government, its own police department since 2009 and a charter school it counts as a civic achievement. Belle Isle, governed.

Belle Isle City Hall. Photo: Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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November 14, 2026 Staff Reports

Incorporated Twice: The City That Exists to Save Its Lakes

Belle Isle incorporated in 1924 to stop Orange County draining Lake Conway — and when the county tried again in 1954, residents reincorporated and did it twice. The full story.