Memories
People
Jean Grafton
Longtime Ocoee resident Jean Grafton talks about growing up in Central Florida on April 1, 2015 at West Oaks Library in Ocoee.
Jean Grafton Interview part 1
Jean Grafton Interview part 2
People
Orlando's First Full-time City Surveyor: Donald R. Brant
I'm Donald R. Brant from Orlando, Florida. We moved here from Pittsburgh to Orlando in 1936. In 1936 that was during the Depression Days and my mother had a health problem when we lived in Pittsburgh and the doctor told...
Topics
Marjorie Maull Rogers Oral History Interview
My name is Marjorie Alice, maiden name is Maull, Rogers. I married a Rogers. He was a Yankee from Chicago. I was born and raised in Pine Castle and I'm still a Pine Castle girl. I know I live right,...
Topics
Alice Morgan Oral History Interview
My name is Alice Macy Morgan, I'm from Pine Castle, Florida. I'm was actually born in Conway. I was born in my grandmother's home, but we lived in Pine Castle. Hilda Arnett. I'm named after both grandmothers. They were early...
Places
Concord Park Elementary School
Concord Park Elementary School was located at the southeast corner of Colonial Drive and 441/OBT at 1010-1020 West Colonial Drive. Its western boundary was separated from the railroad track by a line of bushes and was bordered on the south...
People
Marjorie Rogers Oral History Interview
My name is Marjorie Alice, maiden name is Maull, Rogers. I married a Rogers. He was a Yankee from Chicago. I was born and raised in Pine Castle and I'm still a Pine Castle girl. I know I live right,...
Places
All Souls Catholic Church rectory - April 1911
The photograph is from the Sanford Herald, April 28, 1911, no page number, col. 1-2.
Parochial Residence of Father Bresnahan. The Catholic Church.
Among the many changes and improvements, that have been made in Sanford during the past six months, by no ...
Places
All Souls Catholic Church, rectory and school circa 1914
Postcard of All Souls Catholic rectory, constructed in early 1911 for their first resident pastor, Father Patrick "P.J." Bresnahan, the first church constructed 1887, and the school and convent constructed in 1912.
It is a black and white photographic post card...
Events
Drowned on Lake Apopka
The Sanford Herald, March 28, 1913, p. 7, col. 3.
Drowned on Lake Apopka.
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock the bodies of Mr. E. P. Lewis and F. Garner of Apopka and Frank and Clarence Garner of Orlando, the victims of Sunday's...
People
Orlando Man Disappears - Jerome Palmer Wanders Away
ORLANDO MAN DISAPPEARS. This May be a Case of Self Destruction.
JEROME PALMER WANDERS AWAY. Sanford Herald, front page, March 28, 1913, p. 1, col. 5
Jerome Palmer, an old resident and business man of Orlando, is missing and circumstances all point...
People
Deaconess Lillian Lancaster: Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Institutional Church Oral History Interview
ABOVE: Deaconess Lillian Lancaster in the sanctuary of Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Institutional Church, August 16, 2012.
The earliest memory would be the day that we came to Orlando in July 1972 because Deacon Lancaster had a job interview. And I...
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