This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZ.2ADI/252.1 Message Board Post: Rita Island is an island on the south end of Lake Okeechobee. In the past it was drained for farming, now the area is wetlands within the lake's dyke. The comunity in that area is now known as Lake Harbor along highway 27, west of the town of South Bay.