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The Martin Company
In 1956, Orlando was the growing center of a citrus industry.  In September of that year the Baltimore based Glenn L. Martin Company announced that it had bought nearly 12 square miles of land southwest of Orlando to build their...
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Hot Diggity Drive-In & Restaurant
The Hot Diggity Drive-In Restaurant was a short lived food establishment overlooking Lake Barton. It first appears in the November 1956 telephone directory, but there was not a listing in the Yellow Pages. The address at that time was 5053...
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Lake Como Elementary School
LAKE COMO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL begins undergoing an extreme makeover this summer (2016.) The project is scheduled to take two years with a reopening for school year 2018-2019. A large crowd of persons of all ages gathered on Saturday, May 21, 2016...
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Orlando High School Class of 1927
The Senior Class of 1927 from Orlando High School, sometimes called Orlando Senior High School, celebrated many reunions here in Orlando. Robert J. Kieser along with many of his former classmates and his wife Elizabeth S. Stalder (Class of 1930),...
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Ann Lisbeth Seese Private School
From an undated brochure about the school. The Ann Lisbeth Seese Private School is located in Orlando, Florida. This city, with an altitude of 111 feet and a population of almost 75,000, is the largest inland city in Florida. It is...
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Hampden DuBose School for Children of Christian Missionaries
[caption id="attachment_2321" align="alignleft" width="234"] Read the brochure[/caption] Zellwood's Famed Laughlin Estate Sold To DuBose Academy For $50,000 [Newspaper article circa February 1943 - publisher not noted.] The Hampden-DuBose Academy, well ...
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The University Club of Orlando
The University Club of Orlando Featured photo, above, dated January 16, 1941. Caption: This picture shows every president of the University Club of Orlando since it was organized in 1925. The picture was taken in the club rooms at the Angebilt...
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Winter Park Garden Club
According to the Winter Park Garden Club web site, the club "founded in 1922 to promote gardening and to beautify the City of Winter Park, was one of the four charter members of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs." "The garden...
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Florida District Civitan International
1954-1955 Roster for the Florida District of Civitan International contains members names as well as employers names, addresses and phone numbers. The 70 page booklet lists past presidents and governors of the Florida District from 1922 through 1954, District ...
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Winter Park - Orlando, Florida League of Women Voters
According to History section at the Orange County League of Women Voters' website, the Winter Park - Orlando League of Women Voters "got its official start in Florida in 1939, when women in Winter Haven, Winter Park and St. Petersburg...
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Orange County Chapter American Red Cross Service Report 1946-1947
The Orange County Chapter American Red Cross Service Report January 1946 - April 1947 reflects the dramatic shift from war activities to helping meet the needs of veterans and their families. The report includes list of Chapter Officers, Board of...
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The Rosalind Club
According to the an article in the February/March 1974 edition of the "Central Scene" magazine entitled, Rosalind - The Sweetheart of Orlando, "Mrs. Cecil G. Butt, Mrs. E. M. (Miss Belle) Shephard (later Mrs. Edward Hauselt) and Mrs. L. P....
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