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Rock Springs
Rock Springs on located near Apopka, in Kelly Park. Rock Springs Run is a popular spot for tubing, snorkeling, and swimming.
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Places
Thursby House at Blue Spring
Blue Spring State Park, located in Orange City, Florida, is very popular with manatee watchers during when cold weather presents itself in Central Florida. In addition to being a winter home for manatees in this part of the state, visitors...
Places
Chapel Transitions to Thornton Park Historic District
John Moore preserves the Stephen L. Rusk Memorial Chapel steeple and cupola from the Orlando Naval Training Center (NTC).
Moore outlines the transition of the chapel from the NTC to his home in this oral history interview on May 10,...
Places
Army Air Base Chapel Served Generations of Military Families
ABOVE: The Post Chapel at Orlando Air Base, located in tropical garden environs is unique in that it is the only chapel in the entire army that has its steeple on the ground and to the side of the chapel. The...
People
Dr. Benjamin Patz & Mrs. Anna Mae Patz: Education for Life
We've been married 50 years and we celebrated that this past year. The thing I admire most about him is the fact that he is as brilliant as he is and yet as humble as he is. You can ask...
People
Orville Rhoads Davis
Orville Rhoads Davis came to Orlando in 1929 to serve as principal of Memorial Junior High School, which was located on Rosalind Avenue, facing Lake Eola, where The Metropolitan at Lake Eola condominiums stands today. (Many may remember this location...
Organizations
Bible Study at St. Michael's Episcopal Church
ABOVE: Photo of the Men's Bible Study group at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park, circa 1950s.
ABOVE: Wednesday 10 a.m. Bible Study Class at Saint Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park, circa 1970. Pictured are Lee Marsolf, Virginia Bryan...
Organizations
The Illio - University of Illinois
Excerpts from the 1919, 1921 and 1922 University of Illinois yearbook - "The Illio" - mentioning Dorothy Elizabeth Lumley (Melrose) a student at the Champaign Campus and for whom The Melrose Center at the Orlando Public Library was named.
The Illio...
People
Nixon S. Collins
Nixon Steever Collins came to Orlando in 1920 from Chuluota, Florida. His uncle owned the first automobile in Chuluota, a 1910 Buick. This interview was conducted on July 29, 1975 for the Friends of the Orlando Public Library's Oral History...
Places
1957 Boone High School Yearbook
Members of the Henry Bascom Melrose family including his wife Dorothy Elizabeth Lumley and their sons Kendrick Bascom Melrose and Robert Lumley Melrose resided in Orlando from 1935 to 1980. These images of Dorothy and Kendrick are from the 1957...
People
Bess Coward
Bess Coward - Bud Coward's widow was interviewed with her brothers Alonzo and Clarence Woods on May 18, 1975 by Frank Manuel for the Friends of the Orlando Public Library's Oral History Committee. We are grateful for the Orange County...
Organizations
Founding Members of St. Michael's Episcopal Church
Founding members of Saint Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park are pictured in this 1960s church photo:
Ginny Brewster, Robin Murphy, and Charlie Rowe.
Ginny Brewster was the first Altar Guild Directress for St. Michael's Church.
Robin Murphy starte...
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