And here is a DAY TRIP I Developed and took with some of my friends

 

Start on 17-92 in Maitland Florida

 

Lake Maitland is one of the largest in Central Florida–and it got its name from?

 

The lake and later the town were named after Ft. Maitland  You can locate the Marker on the east side of 17-92 near the lake–it is north of Lake Avenue.  And the fort was named after a Capt. William S. Maitland who was injured in the war with the Indian and later committed suicide due to his prolonged recovery.  The fort was built in 1838 as a supply depot for troops in the war with the Seminole Indians (who called th lake Fumechillga “place of thee muskmelons”).

 

The town which was started sometime before the Civil War was originally named Lake Maitland but that was eventually shortened to it’s present name in 1905.

 

 

A good place to start is Ft. Maitland Park

Facility Type	Park Facilities
Address Line One	900 S. Orlando Ave.

https://maitland.recdesk.com/Community/Facility/Detail?facilityId=66

 

 

 

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Points of Interest/Maitland

 

The Maitland Historical Museum and Telephone Museum

221 W. Packwood Ave.

Maitland

407-644-1364

12-4 pm

My favorite part of this museum is the Telephone Museum with its different phones, switchboards and all manner of communication in the area.  Here you can experience the early days of telephone with woking phones and shttps://artandhistory.org/witchboards

The main museum has artifacts, photos, etc that tell the story of the city from it’s earliest days thru the citrus and lumber industries and more.

Maitland  Art Center

231 W. Packwood Ave

Maitland

Maitland Art Center

Situated next to the history house this is a great place built for visiting artist

by a local artist to visit Florida—it is a truely unique site and it’s pseudo-Actez style is great.  You can even get married at the chapel

Voted one of the world’s most beautiful buildings and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the gardens and courtyard provide a wonderful retreat.  There are ongoing art exhibits and classes offered to the public.

The Historic Waterhouse Residence and Carpentry Shop Museum

820 Lake Lily Drive

Maitland

407-644-2451

Waterhouse Residence Museum

The house was built in 1844 by one of the town’s pioneers Wm. H. Waterhouse for his family—it is a beautiful home with a great setting on a park in Lake Lily and there’s a parking lot right next to the house which makes the visit very easy.

The Waterhouse Carpentry Shop Museum

Building was constructed about 1883.  It contains wood working tools and materials used about this time.

 

 

Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Central Florida

851 N. Maitland Ave

Maitland

407-628-0555

https://www.holocaustedu.org/meet-us/about/

Exhibits illustrates, chronologically, the pre-war Jewish communities in Europe, their culture, religious and economic development, their contributions to Western Civilization and theirr tribulations.  It tracres Hitler’s rise to power and the attendant spread of violence and persecution.

Oh and check below for their plans to build a bigger museum

https://www.holocaustedu.org/building-a-new-holocaust-museum-for-hope-humanity/

 

 

 

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Continue up (north) 17-92 thru

Fern Park

http://www.city-data.com/city/Fern-Park-Florida.html

Here various kinds of ferns were once grown for use by florists nationwide.

 

 

Then Casselberry

Hibbard Casselberry developed the town, which was already formed—and eventually was given his name.  A local horticulturists who had under taken the development of the area.

 

 

 

 

CASSELBERRY FAMILY SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON LIFE OF CITY FOUNDER

The Brightwater estate of Hibbard Casselberry, who was 76 when he died in 1969, stands today as the city’s centerpiece historic site.  Casselberry built his city on the Triplet Chain of Lakes, around his family ferneries and clusters of homes.  “A quick quirk of fate led to his future role in the development of south Seminole County as a major developer, grower of asparagus fern and founder of the city which bears his name,” according to the family heritage. “In 1925, while they were visiting an aunt in Winter Park with sons, Hibbard Jr., 2, and Leonard, 1, ‘Mel’ broke her arm. While waiting for it to heal, Casselberry fell in love with the area and the possibilities of the real estate and fern-growing businesses, particularly the idea of marketing to Northern retirees a building lot, and an adjacent small section for a fernery and orange grove to provide the homeowners a small income.”

 

 

Now return to 17-92 and continue North to Longwood.

Longwood may not be the largest cities in Central Florida it does have the history—it was found in 1878 when the war with the Seminoles was ended and settlement was safe.  It’s name—from a fashionable northern settlement.

 

And how it was founded—John Neil Scury (who would later become its post master) was walking from Sanford to Maitland but only got this far and decided what the heck and ended his walk homesteading here.

 

Points of Interest

 

Big Tree Park

761 General Hutchison Pkwy,

Longwood, FL 32750

http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/locations/Big-Tree-Park.stml

This park is more of a memorial to a 126′ high knobby growth was the largest bald cypress in the nation before some crack ddict burnt it down while doing her drugs.  The tree named the Senator was estimated to be at least 3,000 years old when it was destroyed.

 

 

 

 

 

Named for Senator M.O. Overstreet, who donated this massive cypress and the land around it to the people of Seminole County, the tree towered more than 129 feet tall, and that’s only 2/3 of the height it stood when it was a regional landmark for Indians and settlers passing through the region. Like most big trees, its top came off during a hurricane — the 1925 hurricane that spilled Lake Okeechobee into the towns that surrounded it.

Florida Hikes

 

 

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to reach Longwood’s historic district turn left on 434 and continue till you come to Ronald Regan and turn right

here is a walking tour of the historic area:  https://www.longwoodfl.org/322/Historic-District

 

Bradlee-McIntyre House (Museum)

https://www.historiclongwood.com/research/articles/historic-district/bradlee-mcintyre-house-museum

150 W. Warren St.

Longwood

Built in 1885, it was moved from Altamonte Spring to the present location in 1970.  The house is a 15 room Queen Anne that is occasionally open to the public.  It is reported that General Grant’s wife and/or son spent some Florida vacation time her when it was in Altamonte Sprngs

 

 

 

Inside-Outside House (Shop)

https://www.historiclongwood.com/research/articles/historic-district/inside-outside-house

141 W Church Ave
Longwood, FL 32750

 

Now the home of Cottage Gifts

https://www.cottagegiftshopinlongwoodfla.com/

One of the first examples of pre-fabricated buildings.  The shop is open 10 am – 4 pm daily.

Built by a Captain Pierce —he reputedly along with his black cat Brutus are said to still linger on the property.

 

 

 

Longwood Inn

https://www.historiclongwood.com/research/articles/historic-district/longwood-inn

150 E. Lake Strert

Longwood, fL.

Now an office building rentals offices

But Lobby still looks like a hotel.

a 3-story frame commercial building c 1887.   This building is a rare surviving example of the small wood-frame hotel built in many communities throughout Florida at the end of the 19th c.

 

 

 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Rand of Boston, Mass; visiting their son F.H. Rand in Longwood, became interested in the idea of building a church and going back to Boston procured funds for the erection of the building. Mr. E.W. Henck, one of the earliest settlers of Longwood, had already donated a plot of land for the purpose. Mr. Rand drew plans for the little church and in 1880, with the help of the Rev. F.R. Holman, John and James Searcy, pioneer Floridians, and others, the church was built as it now stands on Church Street, just a block west of the Post Office. Consecration of the church was delayed a number of years. The first service of the new church was celebrated on Easter Day, April 19, 1882, by the Rev. Lyman Phelps.

check out the whole history of this church in the historic downtown https://www.christchurchlongwood.com/history

 

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Come back next Wed or Thurs as we head on to Sanford and Beyond