Tag: Florida history

Pine Castle Pioneer Days, February 2020, magazine featuring cover art by local artist Mark Baird. As noted in the magazine, his original artwork depicts Will Harney's original Pine Castle on the shores of Lake Conway... Enjoy these speaker highli ... Read more

Dr. Ben Brotemarkle presented "The Complete History of Florida in Less than an Hour" before a live audience at the Pine Castle Historical Society's Annual Meeting on December 8, 2019 at the Pine Castle Woman's Club.   My talk is called The Complete His ... Read more

The trip from primitive land to a residential community took 100 years. It involved Indian trails, land speculators, northerners with health problems, and citrus farms that survived freezes, recessions, and a depression. Richard Fox used old aerial photog ... Read more

Rick Kilby, author of: Finding the fountain of youth: Ponce de León and Florida's magical waters speaks on the history and allure of old Florida springs at the Orlando Remembered meeting, July 17, 2019, in the Melrose Conference Room at the Orlando Pub ... Read more

Oral history interview with Reverend Gene Zimmerman and his wife, Emily Ann Zimmerman, as they share details of the friendship between Zora Neale Hurston and Emily Ann's mother, Mrs. H. A. Owen. Ms. Hurston and Mrs. Owen became friends in Eau Galli ... Read more

Listen as Dr. Wehr speaks about his new book and tells some great stories at the Pine Castle Women's Club on June 22, 2014. Historian Paul Wehr's new book:  Dateline Pine Castle: Will Wallace Harney's Stories of Central Florida, 1870-1890  ... Read more