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Bill "Boxcar" Leach: A History of Florida Railroads
Bill "Boxcar" Leach worked for the railroad in Central Florida for 40 years. Listen as he tells the history of railroads in Florida from the railroad bonds issued for Civil War debt to Sun Rail and Rails to Trails and...
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Orlando Police Chief Robert Chewning
ABOVE: May 5, 1968 photo of Orlando Police Chief Robert J. Chewning installed at Orlando Moose Lodge No. 766 with a grand welcome from Orlando Moose Lodge Governor Tony Lash.
Courtesy of the Harry Bower Kiwanis Club Archives.
Robert Chewning was appointed...
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Mayor Bill Frederick
ABOVE: Willard "Bill" Drawn Frederick, Jr. meeting with Richard F. Trismen as the plan the details for Governor LeRoy Collins' visit to Orlando. March 7, 1968 article.
Bill Frederick would later serve as Mayor of the City of Orlando from 1980-1992.
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Interview with Dewey Vick Mathews
Mrs. E. Lee Mathews (and daughter of Ezekiel C. Vick) was interviewed by Hatabel Hyers on April 16, 1975 in the Mathews' home in Oakland, Florida. Officially established in 1887, Oakland is one of the oldest communities in Orange County...
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Willa Vick Griffin
Willa Vick Griffin was interviewed by Hattabel Hyer for the "Pioneer Party Line" on December 12. She was the daughter of Sheriff John Henry Vick and wife of Samuel Sevier Griffin. They had three daughters and at one time owned...
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Agnes Person and Jean Person Floyd
Agnes Person (Orlando) and Jean Person Floyd (Leesburg) were interviewed by Hatabel Hyer on December 1, 1971, for her Pioneer Party Line project. Hatabel Hyer refers to these sisters as representative of the backbone of the early community. They were...
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Wayne A. Cooper
Wayne A. Cooper, a long time "real estate man" in Orlando was interviewed by Frank Manual on January 30, 1978. We are grateful for the Orange County Regional History Center's making this recording available for Orlando Memory.
Mr. Cooper came to...
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Joe Sikora, Engineer
The Martin Company - so they put me on the company plane with a few other guys and down to Orlando we come. When we left Baltimore it was snowing, cold, messy, you know really bad and when we landed...
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Will abstract of Luron H. Geer
According to local historian Eve Bacon, Luron H Geer was the first professional photographer in Orlando. Mr. and Mrs. Geer came to Orlando sometime in the 1870s and settled on the land around the lake which is named after them...
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Community Leader Sarah Milton
Above: Boy Scouts in Troop 902 led by troop leader Sarah Milton, have been marching in the Martin Luther King Parade for ten years. In this photo the troop marches through downtown Orlando on Church Street near Jackson Court. Boy...
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Interview wth Denise Stuart
Denise Stuart, a transplant from New York, shares her memories of Ocoee, Florida. Ocoee is very posh! The town is blooming and there are many activities for everyone to enjoy.
The interview was conducted by Librarian Sharon Ricket at the Winter...
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Hatabel Hyer
Miss Hyer was the oldest daughter of Edward Pringle Hyer who came here from Georgia with three of his brothers in 1875. Edward operated his own school books and supplies store on Orange Avenue from 1886 to 1889, and served...
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