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30 historical markers in Florida

1887 Windermere Schoolhouse

Windermere, FL

Side 1: Opened in 1887, this structure is the only surviving one-room school house in Orange County, and one of the few still standing in...

Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens

This property was the retirement home of internationally-renowned artist Albin Polasek from 1950 until his death in 1965.

Astronaut John Watts Young

Orlando, FL

John Watts Young, NASA astronaut, Gemini veteran, Apollo moonwalker, and space shuttle commander, was the first American to travel in...

Atlantic Coastline Station

Orlando, FL

Side One: In 1880, the South Florida Railroad built a railway through Orlando.

Black Bottom House Of Prayer

Orlando, FL

In the summer of 1916, a few Black families from the Deep South settled in an area of Orlando called the Black Bottom, so named because...

Cal Palmer Memorial Building

Windermere, FL

In 1911, John Calvin “Cal” Palmer (1869-1965) and Dr. J. Howard Johnson (1871-1936) formed the Windermere Improvement Company and...

Church Of The Good Shepherd

Maitland, FL

The Church of the Good Shepherd (known as "The Chapel") was established in 1882 by the Right Reverend Henry Benjamin Whipple, the first...

Community Of Lockhart

Orlando, FL

Side One: The Mississippian People and their descendants, including the Timucua, Tocobaga, Miccosukee, and Seminole, lived among these...

Dr. Howard A. Kelly Park

Apopka, FL

Rock Springs is the source of the Rock Springs Run, a swift running stream with an average flow of 26,000 gallons per minute and a...

Dubsdread Golf Course

Orlando, FL

SIDE ONE: One weekend in 1923, Carl Dann, Sr., a major Orlando Developer, had a disagreement with the Orlando Country Club, supposedly...

Episcopal Church Of The Holy Spirit

Apopka, FL

This little church began as a simple rectangular board and batten structure built in 1886 by the First Congregational Church on Main...

Eppes-Shine Plot, Greenwood Cemetery

Orlando, FL

Side 1: Buried here are members of the Eppes and Shine families, descendants of President Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration...

First United Methodist Church Of Winter Garden

The First United Methodist Church of Winter Garden had its beginnings in 1893 in Beulah, a community located two miles south of Winter...

H.h. Dickson Azalea Park/Washington Sreet Bridge

Orlando, FL

Dickson Azalea Park began as a natural stream, later named Fern Creek, in a deep ravine surrounded by native ferns, palms, and oaks.

Henry Nehrling's Palm Cottage Gardens

Gotha, FL

This site was home to Dr. Henry Nehrling (1853-1929), an internationally-renowned horticulturalist, naturalist, botanist, ornithologist,...

John R. Mott House Site

Orlando, FL

Side One: Built in 1920, the former house at 528 E. Washington Street was once home to Nobel Peace Prize winner John Raleigh Mott...

Lake Adair- Lake Concord Historic District

Orlando, FL

The Lake Adair–Lake Concord Historic District reflects the change that automobiles brought to community planning and development and to...

Lake Ivanhoe Residential Historic District

Orlando, FL

The Lake Ivanhoe Residential Historic District comprises parts of subdivisions platted by Walter Rose starting in 1921.

Moseley House

Eatonville, FL

Taylor Street is the eastern boundary of Eatonville and is the site of Jim and Matilda Clark Moseley’s home.

Oldest Masonic Lodge Building In Continuous Use In Florida

Apopka, FL

Masonic Lodge #36 of the Grand Jurisdiction of Florida was established in 1856 and is still serving under a warrant issued that year.

Orlando Army Air Base

Orlando, FL

Orlando Municipal Airport opened in 1928 on 65 acres of land north of Lake Underhill.

Railroading In Maitland

Maitland, FL

Before the railroad to Lake Maitland, travelers boarded a steamboat in Jacksonville for the trip up the St. Johns River to Sanford.

Robert Bruce Barbour House/ Casa Feliz

Casa Feliz, or "Happy House,” was the signature work of Winter Park architect James Gamble Rogers II.

Ronald Reagan's Evil Empire Speech Memorial

Orlando, FL

On this site on March 8, 1983, President Ronald Reagan gave a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in which he described...

Rosemere Historic District

Orlando, FL

Walter Rose platted the first Rosemere subdivision north of Lake Ivanhoe in 1921.

The Cathedral Church Of St. Luke

Orlando, FL

Francis Wayles Eppes, grandson of President Thomas Jefferson, moved from Tallahassee to Orlando in 1869.

The Leu House Museum

Orlando, FL

Side One: In 1858, the David W. Mizell family homesteaded this property, and in 1862, built their first home.

Tinker Field

Orlando, FL

Side One: Joe Tinker (1880-1948) was an Orlando real estate developer and professional baseball player.

White House Of Zellwood Station

Zellwood, FL

Built in 1869, just east of Zellwood, the White House was the winter home of the Harry S. Paul family from Pennsylvania.

Withers-Maguire House

Ocoee, FL

In 1884, retired General William Temple Withers, a native Kentuckian, began wintering in Florida.

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