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Historic Homes Walking Tour: The College Streets of College Park Brochure
1101 West Princeton Street 1101 West Princeton St. Historic house description quoted from the 12th Annual Historic Homes Tour ticket presented by The College Park Neighborhood Association. "S.A. Atha took out the building permit for this fine home in Januar...
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Lake Concord and Lake Adair Historic House Tour, December, 1993
College Park Historic Homes Tour House at 804 Alameda Drive featured in the Third Annual Historic Homes Tour sponsored by the College Park Neighborhood Association through its Historical Committee. The Lake Concord/Adair area of College Park was the subject o...
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Lake Concord's Southwest Shore Historic House Tour, December, 1994
The McEwan House, 407 Peachtree Road designed by James Gamble Rogers II featured in the College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Lake Concord's Southwest Shore Historic House Tour, December 4,1994. At the turn of the century, the Lake Co...
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Ivanhoe Area Historic House Tour, 1995
On the shores of Lake Ivanhoe, near where Dartmouth Street meets the lake, ground was broken Feb. 26, 1925 for the first subdivision to be called College Park (north to Princeton, west to Edgewater, east to University). The developers of...
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee's Ivanhoe Historic House Tour, 1992
Margaret Ark New Era Markets at Edgewater Drive and Princeton Street.  Photo provided by College Park Historical Society Board Member Julie Northlake.   College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee's Ivanhoe Historic House Tour, 1992...
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College Park Neighborhood Association Dubsdread Area Historic House Tour, 1991
College Park Historic Homes Tour House at 375 Niblick Avenue featured in the 1991 Dubsdread Area Historic Homes Tour sponsored by the College Park Neighborhood Association through its Historical Committee.   The Dubsdread area got its start in 1923 with ...
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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...
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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 and 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...
Organizations
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,...