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My name is Robert Byrd and I was born in Orlando, actually at my grandmother's house on Cottage Hill Road which was a little rock road off of what we then called the Old Winter Garden Highway... It was just a little bit beyond what I think you now call th ... Read more

My name is Robert Byrd and I was born in Orlando, actually at my grandmother's house on Cottage Hill Road which was a little rock road off of what we then called the Old Winter Garden Highway... It was just a little bit beyond what I think you now call th ... Read more

Oral history interview with Mr. Leon H. Handley at his law office in downtown Orlando, December 11, 2012. Growing up in Lakeland. My father joined the company that was called the Mulberry Explosives Supply Company formed to serve the phosphate mines and ... Read more

ABOVE: 1960's photo of Youth Bible Study at Saint Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park. Girls engaged in Bible study at Saint Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park. Circa 1960s. Boys engaged in learning at Youth Bible Study at S ... Read more

ABOVE: Orlando Junior College brochure featuring a photo of the college from North Highland Avenue, the same building which is used today by Lake Highland Preparatory School for classes.  Mr. Guernsey served as Board Chairman of Orlando Junior College. ... Read more

Orlando Junior College, a two year, independent, coeducational institution of higher learning was chartered under the Laws of Florida in the spring of 1941. In 1969, due to inability to compete with the new Valencia Community College, Orlando Junior Coll ... Read more