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College Park Historic Homes Tour North From Lake Adair, 1997
Lake Adair reportedly got its name in 1884, when John W. Childress bought an adjacent grove and bestowed his wife's name on the lake. The eastern border of Childress' land would have been today's Westmoreland. By 1920, that land and...
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College Park Historic Homes Tour - Shore Crest, 1996
The 1920's boom transformed groves, farms and woodlands into neatly platted small-lot subdivisions now collectively called College Park.
One of the first developers to realize this area's potential was Walter W. Rose. Active in Orlando real estate since 191...
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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,...
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Lake Concord and Lake Adair Historic House Tour, December, 1993
The Lake Concord/Adair area of College Park was the subject of a 1984 Historic Resources Survey conducted for the City of Orlando. In 1989, College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee volunteers supplemented the survey. The committee continues t...
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Lake Concord's Southwest Shore Historic House Tour, December, 1994
At the turn of the century, the Lake Concord area was semi-rural. Near the lake were orange groves, and a few homes of grove owners. James P. Wilcox was a prominent landholder. In 1910, Judge Thomas Picton Warlow and his...
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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
The Ivanhoe area of College Park was recently the subject of a Historic Resources Survey conducted for the City of Orlando, supplementing a 1984 study. The 1992 survey area extends from the north side of Lakeview through the south side...
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College Park Neighborhood Association Dubsdread Area Historic House Tour, 1991
The Dubsdread area got its start in 1923 with the founding of the White Stag Golf Course, later known as Dubsdread allegedly because golfers dreaded to dub (miss) a shot on this difficult golf course.
Prominent real estate man Hanford...
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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...
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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...
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