History and Heritage in Winter Springs, FL

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(Base: front side)Dedicated to the Memory of the brave sons of Seminole County who laid their lives on the sacrificia...

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Over 1,000 years ago, the Timucua (tee-MOO-quo) people established villages in this area. They fished, hunted, and gr...

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Saint James African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church has been located on Cypress Avenue since 1880 on land purchas...

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the N.P. Yowell Building was built in 1910 for a prominent Orlando merchant of the same name. It was designed by Jack...

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At the turn of the twentieth century the City of Sanford was one of the largest fruit and vegetable shipping centers ...

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The DeForest Block, built in 1887, was Mr. Henry L. DeForest's first brick building in the downtown commercial distri...

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This building was erected in 1917 by the Directors of the Seminole County Bank shortly after the adjacent bank buildi...

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The Art & History Museums, Maitland operates the Maitland Art Center, Waterhouse Residence Museum, Carpentry Sh...

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The Peoples Bank building, on the Southeast corner of First Street and Magnolia Avenue, was completed in 1906 and was...

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When constructed in 1923 the Meisch building was considered a typical example of American commercial architecture. It...

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The Vietnam War began when Vietnamese nationalists ended one hundred years of colonial rule by forcing the French out...

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Sanford's center for entertainment, the Imperial Opera House opened June 15, 1910. The contractor W.G. Hammond built ...

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In 1842, the U.S. Government began to encourage settlers to relocate to Florida by offering free land. Settlers came ...

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Finished in 1887, this building was built by Colonel A.M. Thrasher who was President of the Sanford Ice and Cold Stor...

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During the Second Seminole War in 1836, the U.S. Army established Camp Monroe as a staging area for unloading troops ...

Seminole County Museum