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Places

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 subj ... Read more

Places

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 La ... Read more

Places

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 this former citru ... Read more

Places

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, ... Read more

Places

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 ... Read more

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College College Park Oral History Night: Bertie Hunt, Lynda Swenk, Bunny Parish, and Dann Pottinger

College Park Oral History Night with special guests Bertie Hunt, Lynda Swenk, Bunny Parish, and Dann Pottinger sharing memories about growing up in College Park. The oral history event was held at the College Park Community Center located at 2393 Elizabe ... Read more

Events

College Park Oral History Night: Bertie Hunt, Lynda Swenk, Bunny Parish, and Dann Pottinger

ABOVE: College Park Historical Committee Chair Bill Jennings welcomes neighbors and special guest speakers Bertie Hunt, Linda Swenk, Bunny Parish, and Dann Pottinger to College Park Oral History Night College Park Oral History Night with special ... Read more

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Father Bowman Blessing the Children at Saint Michael's Church

ABOVE: Father Dick Bowman blesses the children at the altar of Saint Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park circa 1989. Reverend Richard Bowman became the fourth rector of St. Michael's Church in February 1987. St. Michael's Church services starte ... Read more

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Oral History Interview with School Principal Irma Achenbach Scudder

I came from Germany when I was 4 1/2 years old. It was 1924 and it was very different from it is now. We lived in College Park and there was no water no lights no street paving... My father... he bought a lot and he and a friend built us a little house i ... Read more

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College Park Oral History Night with the Stuart Family

ABOVE: Charlie Stuart who grew up on Gerda Terrace in College Park speaks at the College Park Oral History Night with the Stuart Family at Infusion Tea, August 26, 2013. ABOVE: Front page excerpt of Urban Renewal: A Way to Keep Orlando The City Beautiful ... Read more

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The John Young House

What's it like to live in the house of a famous astronaut? George Williston shares some of the memorable stories of living in The John Young House at the College Park Historical Committee meeting on February 25, 2013. LISTEN (14:20) [embed]https:/ ... Read more

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The Halcyon Days of Orlando - Dann Pottinger

I'm Dann Pottinger and I'm from Orlando, one of those rare creatures that spent all my life here... My career being in the banking business. I was the founder and president of First State Financial and also president later of Commercial State Bank...I ope ... Read more