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Pulse Memorial Paver Garden - Orlando Health
49 pavers with the names of the 49 lives lost on June 12, 2016 at the Pulse Nightclub circle the entrance of Lake Beauty Park at Orlando Health.
"Orlando Health has unveiled their Memorial Paver Garden on the shore of Lake...
Events
Six-Month Remembrance of the Pulse Nightclub Tragedy
December 12, 2016 marked the six-month anniversary of the Pulse nightclub tragedy which took 49 lives and injured 68 people. The Orange County Regional History Center hosted a special event with community leaders, local singers, and community members paying ...
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Pulse: Memorials
Following the tragic loss of 49 lives on June 12, 2016 in Orlando, the Pulse nightclub has become a memorial to the lives lost, the lives fighting for recovery, and the love and support Orlando and the world has for...
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Historic Orlando
ABOVE: The Orlando Opera House. The Opera House was located on Court Street in the middle of block between Pine and Church streets and across from Richards Undertaker business. It can be found on the 1884 Orlando Business District map.
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History of the Orange County Library System
Sorosis Club of Orlando
The beginnings of the current Orange County Library System can be traced to the circulating library collection of the Sorosis Club of Orlando. The collection was initially housed on the second floor of the old Armory building...
Places
Historic Homes Walking Tour: The College Streets of College Park Brochure
College Park developed as a neighborhood within the city of Orlando. The name did not come from a college. It originated with a developer, Walter Rose, who named streets after Ivy League colleges in 1921. In 1925 another development company,...
Places
College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Lake Concord and Lake Adair Historic House Tour, December, 1993
College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Lake Concord and Lake Adair Historic House Tour, December 5, 1993.
Historic Homes #3 - 1993
Lake Concord and Lake Adair House Tour Addresses
1. 800 Edgewater Drive
2. 918 Alameda Stree...
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Lake Concord's Southwest Shore Historic House Tour, December, 1994
College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Lake Concord's Southwest Shore Historic House Tour, December 4, 1994.
College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Lake Concord's Southwest Shore Historic House Tour, 1994
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Ivanhoe Area Historic House Tour, 1995
College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Ivanhoe Area Historic House Tour, December 3, 1995.
College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Ivanhoe Area Historic House Tour, 1995
Ivanhoe Area House Tour Addresses
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Places
College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee's Ivanhoe Historic House Tour, 1992
College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee's Ivanhoe Historic House Tour, December 6, 1992.
Historic Homes #2 - 1992
Ivanhoe House Tour Addresses
1. 2015 Edgewater Drive
2. 1327 Eastin Avenue
3. 1318 Eastin Avenue
4. 539 Greel...
Places
College Park Neighborhood Association Dubsdread Area Historic House Tour, 1991
Historic Homes #1 -1991The College Park Neighborhood Association Dubsdread Area Historic House Tour, November 3, 1991.
Dubsdread Area House Tour Addresses
1. 3312 Eagle Boulevard
2. 3001 Eagle Boulevard
3. 510 W. Par Street
4. 3206 North Greene ...
Places
Loch Haven Park
Proposed Plan for the Development of Loch Haven Park
The 72-page "Report and Recommendations for the Development of Loch Haven Park - A Park and Cultural Center Proposed for the City of Orlando, Florida" was submitted to the city in January...
Places
Lora's Klip and Kurl
ABOVE: Advertisement in the 1963 Colonial High School yearbook.
Special thanks to Lora's daughter Elizabeth Bucker for sharing her memories and photographs to make this post possible.
ABOVE: Lora's Klip and Kurl Beauty Salon. You can see the hair dryers al...
People
Dolores Pieper
Above: 1977 NRL ID photo
Dolores A. Pieper
Dolores A. Pieper worked in the Technical Information Office in the Underwater Sound Research Division of the Naval Research Laboratory (USRD-NRL) in Orlando with physicists Rodger N. Capps, Vincent Benedetti and ...
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"Harriet, Henrietta & Orlando's School for Girls", An Orlando Remembered Presentation by Historian Richard Cronin, March 2021
In honor of Women's History Month, Historian Richard Cronin elucidates the local history documenting how the founders of Orlando felt educating women to be very important.
Listen as Author Richard Cronin presents Harriet, Henrietta, and Orlando's School...
Events
Orange County Mayor Jerry L. Demings Presents His Oral History at Orlando Remembered, February 2021
Mayor Jerry L. Demings is the fifth Mayor of Orange County, and is the first African-American to lead the office. Mayor Demings became Orlando’s first African-American police chief in 1998. He was elected as the first African-American Orange County Sheriff...
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Orlando Senior High School - Senior Class of 1929
Orlando Senior High School
Senior Class of 1929
Board of Education
L B MATTHEWS, Chairman
Mrs. F E GODFREY
C E HOWARD
James H PARK, Supervisor of Schools
Eunice DeLANEY, Asst. Supervisor
Faculty
J B Walker, Principal
Gordon H MAY,...
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