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So part 2 of Town 4 and what there is to do there: MORE LONGWOOD.

A good place to start you wandering around Longwood:

ZANZIBAR COFFEE SHOP

(321) 203-4540

Between the light on 436 and Ronald Regan (427) and the light at Church street…it’s on the east side of the street across from the historic Longwood Inn that we featured last week. Just after the Janitorial Service there’s a nice parking lot and the shop is the other side of that parking lot—Longwood has a wealth of parking—-if you come by the Sun Rail turn west—right down Church Street to the down town area and then left on Ronald Regan.

If you’re meeting friends this is a good place to do it as it’s as it is open at 7 so you can set an have your coffee before the place opens.

Yu order your coffee at the counter like a lot of coffee shops and they also have pastries and the like to pick from. The shop is distinctive as it is decorated in African décor and there is inside as well as outside seating.

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On weekdays famers would come t town once more to do business at the small cluster of stores between the tracks and the road. A stop at the farm supply store was almost always on the docket, as was a visit to the post office. Often it was necessary to stop at the bank, for it held mortgages on nearly every spread hereabouts. When it shuttered its doors during the Depression, it was a severe blow to everyone. The establishments are gone today but the buildings remain.

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Once you’ve had your caffeine for the day head on back to downtown Longwood. Turn right on Ronald Reagan…

and you’ll see

Back To Basics Barbershop

https://www.facebook.com/backtobasicbarbershop/

where you can get a trim or a shave.

Then there’s Peddles

A lovely flower shop specializing in Wedding and other life event arrangements.

http://peddles.com/

Altogether Longwood has 35 historic buildings clustered in its old town.

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Stay on the same side of the street and cross over Church—on the corner and you’ll find

The Wild Hare Kitchen and Farmer’s Market

https://www.wildharekitchen.com/

https://www.facebook.com/WildHareKitchen/app/117784394919914/

From organic food to meals planned and packed customers for all manner of heath issues and much more—you have to check this place out for all the stuff they offer–plan a little time here

…1876, the Longwood Post Office was established with (real estate promotor E.W.) Hench as the first postmaster. He selected the name Longwood after a suburb of Boston, which he as a young engineer helped lay out.

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When you leave Wild Hare (from main entrance on Ronald Regan) Turn left and then left again around the side of the Wild Hare building and continue walking till you come to

NuNatural.

https://www.nunaturalbeauty.com/

So we go from healthy foods to other health items. This lovely store carries everything from essential oils, scrubs, as well as creams and the like for the face, body, hair, and nails. There are also fragrances and even household products and you can also get massages there.

A decade later and under Henck’s steady real estate promotions, Longwood had five churches, thee hotels–including his Longwood Village Inn and another built by Henck–eight stores and a weekly newspaper.

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when you leave the store turn left—next stop is

Cross Roads Thrift Shop and Collectible

This shop is a gem…with lots of collectible items

including

To show a few….there are baseball cards some Joe Namath memorabilia and all in a lovely little shop which I’d recommend for the collector and the person who wants to find something special

Longwood is located in Central Florida’s Seminole County which is just minutes north of downtown Orlando. Seminole County’s eastern boundary is on the St. Johns River. Lake Monroe forms the northern boundary.

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Ok ready for some breakfast or lunch the last store on this side of the street can help with that–is

Pete’s Eats

https://www.facebook.com/PetesEatsLongwoodFl

Breakfast sandwiches for the morning and signature sandwiches the rest of the day—cakes, coffee and soda drinks….

The evolution of Longwood mirror that of many Central Florida towns, with settlement in the 1880s and continued growth until the Big Freeze of 1894-95. Also typical of many Central Florida communities is the burst of growth experienced by Longwood in the 1920’s.

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If you continue on past Pete’s you’ll come to the Sun Rail Depot about half of block on this side of the road, but….let’s continue on through the town. Turn back the way you came toward 427.

On the other side of Church street before you cross Ronald Regan (you walked past it previously) is the

Connolly’s Irish Pub

https://www.groupon.com/biz/longwood-fl/connollys-irish-pub

This is a Irish pub with bar snacks and pub grub and if you’re here on most days it doesn’t open till 4 so I’d recommend a stop there at the end of your day—however it opens at noon on Saturdays so this restaurant offers a fine selection of wines, beers, and beyond. Connolly’s Irish Pub offers discounted prices on food and drinks during happy hour.

whether you have lunch at Connelly’s or are on the other side of Church head across (there’s a light please walk carefully). from here you can visit the park take a little down town after lunch —–

then go to last weeks historical section and follow it down Church Street down to the Inside Outside House and it’s lovely shop and on down past the church and across for a glance at the older Clouser House which hold craft classes now and then thru the parking lot toward the Lovely Community building and then turn right on Warren—the first building on the right (in direct line with the craft class building and original Clouser homee) which is where we’ll start next week.

Another early settler from Boston, Frederick Rand, together with the Searcy family, founded Christ Episcopal Church, which still stands on Church Avenue. Rand was also associated with Henck and the founding of the railroad. By 1886 the population had reached 1,000, making Longwood among the largest communities in Central Florida

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwood,_Florida