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Brochure of DeLeon Springs
ABOVE: Sugar Mill at DeLeon Springs
This brochure, from 1985, gives an overview of DeLeon Springs State Park.
ABOVE: Sugar Mill at DeLeon Springs
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Brochure of Orlando, Florida: The City Beautiful
This brochure gives facts about Orlando's historic buildings and businesses and an overview of the city and of local hotels. View maps, postcards, brochures, photographs and more about the history of Orlando.
Hotels and businesses mentioned in the broch...
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Blue Springs: A Bit of Inspiration for a British Poet
ABOVE IMAGE: Manatees at Blue Spring
William Bartram, an American 18th-century naturalist and explorer, wrote a book titled "Travels," detailing the plants and landscape he encountered during his time exploring Florida in the 1770's. Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
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Natural Springs of Central Florida
Florida has more than 700 springs. The majority of springs bubble up from the Florida Aquifer and are located north of I-4. However, the Orlando area has many beautiful springs that are rich in history. These springs include Wekiva (Wekiwa)...
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Cutting Edge Engineering From the Early Days of FTU to the UCF Achievers of Today
ABOVE: Photo of Dr. Benjamin Patz, computer engineer, electrical engineer, research scientist.
UCF (FTU) would be starting in 69. At that time we were called electrical engineering and computer engineering. It was one department. When we went out there first it...
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Joseph S. Guernsey on the Future of Orlando: Then & Now
I think not only is the future extremely bright for Orlando, but I think it is likely to become someday the largest city in Florida... in this excerpt from an oral history interview on May 26, 2012 Mr. Joseph S....
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At the Launch: Eyewitness to Central Florida Space History
ABOVE: Dr. Benjamin Patz, computer engineer, electrical engineer, research scientist.
At that time they were having launches, it seemed like a couple a week. There was a tremendous amount of launch activity. You could go out and you could see a...
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United States Post Office in Orlando, Florida
ABOVE: September 1st, 1917 photo of the lobby finish of the United States Post Office in downtown Orlando.
Historic photos of the site for the United States Post Office in downtown Orlando, circa 1917.
The contractor for the project was Westchester Enginee...
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IEEE & Computer Technology in Central Florida
"Who wants to get a computer? Nobody volunteered so I was elected." So I put out a proposal to get a computer system at UCF and we got bids from Data General and Digital Equipment Corporation...
Remembering the assembly language, programming,...
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Florida Splendid China
Florida Splendid China Theme Park, U.S.A.
During the 1990s, local investors partnered with the Overseas Enterprise of of China Travel Service to build the Splendid China theme park in Central Florida which opened to the public in November 1993 and closed...
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Underwater Sound Research Division of the Naval Research Laboratory
ABOVE: September 4th, 2011 photo of Vincent and Arline Benedetti at Saint James Cathedral in downtown Orlando.
Underwater Sound Research Division of the Naval Research Laboratory
With a $3.5 million dollar budget, three research facilities, and physicists en...
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Orange Groves, Rattlesnakes, and a Lynching
ABOVE IMAGE: 1967 photo of Dr. Benjamin W. Patz, center, in a meeting with Martin engineers, management, and research scientists on the Solar Probe Project at Martin Marietta in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Phil Gregory, engineer, is seated to the far left. Dr. Do...
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