Cont. from last week
You continue up 17-92 —
before you get to Sanford proper and just off 17-92
Left at the light on County Home Road
Just a short distance on the right you’ll see Eslinger Way—The Museum is on your left”
Museum of Sminole County
The buildings are the only only “Old Folks Home” still in existence in Florida. It was built in 1925 by the county and there were two residences one for white and one for black indigent elderly citizens. There use to be a huge (3rd largest in the country) here, but it had been dead a few years and I think it’s finally been removed now. The buildings hold all manner of period furniture, a country store, agriculture, forestry, livestock, library and more local items and history of the area. It’s a very interesting museum.
Upsala Cemetery Sanford Florida (Near Seminole Towne Center)
is the area where the Swedes that Sanford hired settled.
In May of 1871 thirty-three Swedish immigrants (twenty-six men and seven women) arrived under the sponsorship ofHenry S. Sanford for the purpose of developing his citrus groves (St. Gertrude, which extended from what is now Central Florida Regional Hospital south to Third Street: and Belair, west of the railroad tracks on Old Lake Mary Road).
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EYE MAGAZINE August 1968 Vol 1 #6
$84.11
Continue back on 17-92 North/Left at the light to:
SANFORD
Originally it was an Army post–Fort Mellon (198 N Mellonville Ave
Sanford, Florida 32771 is location where fort once stood for additional information: https://www.theclio.com/web/entry?id=38007 ) and later Monroe (for a soldier killed by the Seminoles, was founded in the 1830’s for Indian issues.
In the 1860’s Henry Sanford, a minister to Belgium during the administration of Abraham Lincoln, came to the area and purchased several thousand acres (various sites give different numbers of acres) which he planned to develop. Sanford employment issues with the locals led him to go further afield bringing workers to the area from Sweden and Scotland.
The town was Sanford was born, while Mellonville which was nearby was incorporated in 1877, the areas economy was based largely on citrus crops which was ended by the Big Freeze of the late 1800’s. After this the crops were changed to hardier ones by 1910. Sanford was soon known “The Celery City.”
Ocala National Forest is about 20 miles northwest, and Wekiwa Springs State Park is some 15 miles (25 km) southwest. Pop. (2000) 38,291; Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford Metro Area, 1,644,561; (2010) 53,570; Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford Metro Area, 2,134,41.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Sanford
Gallery on First is a unique gallery and working space for professional and emerging artists that invites the public inside the artistic process through shows, events, education and conversations with working artists. Located in Sanford, Florida
in an eclectic environment, where passion for art is shared with a spirit of Southern hospitality befitting our historic downtown Sanford location
First street has all manner of restaurants, and shopping and the down town is surrounded by a large number of houses and building of historical and architectural note:
For instance
Queen Ann House (1894)
603 S. Myrtle Ave (private)
Sanford
Once the residence of R.J. Holly, founder of the Sanford Herald. Later it bcame th home and music studio of the Munson family. Here generations of Sanford’s youth studied piano—fearing Miss Fannie Reba’s ruler on their knuckles.
This was also the house that was used for filming the movie
“My Girl”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102492/
Click here for pictures and info on houses (in various towns in Central Florida) used for the movie: http://www.themoviedistrict.com/my-girl/
Set in ‘Pennsylvania’, the movie was shot in Florida, where the tow of ‘Madison, Pennsylvania’ was actually Sanford, about 20 miles north of Orlando. The ‘Sultenfuss Funeral Parlor’ is 555 East Stanford Street, Bartow, Route 60, 40 miles east of Tampa. For several years it operated as a bed and breakfast, but the business has since closed. Filming also took place at Ocoee Christian Church, 15 South Bluford Avenue, Ocoee near Lake Apopka on the western outskirts of Orlando; the old Plant City High School, Plant City, I-4 between Tampa and Lakeland, and Mirror Lake, near Clermont, west of Orlando. The café, where Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) and her dad (Dan Aykroyd) see Culkin’s mother, was Cafe Jake’s, now The Breezeway Restaurant & Bar, 112 East First Street, Sanford.
The three block area of downtown Sanford has more than 20 buildings listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Most of the buildings were constructed in the late 1800s, and the newest one was built in 1923. All of the buildings in Sanford’s downtown historic district are remarkably well preserved. Florida Historical Society https://myfloridahistory.org/frontiers/article/156
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Bush Clash Daytona 1996 12×17 inches
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Sanford Museum - https://www.sanfordfl.gov/visitors/sanford-museum
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520 E. 1st St
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Sanford
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Exhibits on local history as well as items on the city founder (and it is named after) Includes the library and another room from his home donated by his family.
When your done with seeing all that Sanford has to offer get back on 17-92 and continue north (which meanders west along Lake Monroe for awhile—keep a look out on your left and you’ll see
Central Florida Zoo
3755 W Seminole Blvd (Hwy 17-92),
Sanford, FL 32747
109 acre park, lush growths of graceful palms
The Sanford Marketplace at Magnolia
Sanford’s Marketplace at Magnolia is operated by the:
Historic Sanford Welcome Center
230 East First Street
Sanford, FL 32771
Phone: 407-302-2586
www.sanfordmarketplace.net
The Market is held in Magnolia Square every Saturday from 9:00AM to 2:00PM.
Sanford Farmers Market in the heart of historic downtown.
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Mini- Cobalt Bottles with Silver tone caps—One Tassled with Textured Body the other with Flowers
$10.99
Continue left from the zoo on 17-92 and you will pass under I-4 and over the St. John’s River/alias Lake Monroe.
Turn right at the first road after the bridge. (or just follow the signs to
DeBary Hall.
210 E. Sunrise Blvd.
Its on the left of the road.
DeBarry Hall was built in 1871 by Frederick de Bary, a prominent wine importer, business man and sportsman , a European-born wine merchant who chose the St. Johns River country for his hunting estate. Frederick DeBary tried his hand at orange growing and commercial steam boating, but his Florida estate became a center of sport hunting and hospitality. DeBary reportedly entertained Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Grover Cleveland; the Astors, Goulds and Vanderbilts; and the Prince of Wales, who went on to become King Edward VII.
Among other things of note this house had the first swimming pool in the area and possibly the entire state. Today’s historic site covers 10 acres and includes the 8,000-square-foot hunting lodge, stables and other structures.
click here for opening times and other helpful information as well as entrance fees:
I have been coming here since they first opened it and as they gradually added to it. I made a tour about a year or so ago and really like how they have developed everything and urge you to make a visit if you can make it—even if you can’t do the whole tour.
Samuel Frederick DeBary
| BIRTH |
Frankfurt am Main, Stadtkreis Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
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| DEATH | 23 Dec 1898 (aged 83)
Summit, Union County, New Jersey, USA
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| BURIAL |
Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA |
| MEMORIAL ID | 52379930 · View Source |
to learn more about DeBarry
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52379930/samuel-frederick-debary
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Vintage Troll in sunglasses Key Chain and Set of Troll pierced Earrings
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Turn back the way you came from DeBarry House and return to 17-92 Turn right/north there and continue on to:
Orange City
https://www.ourorangecity.com/about-our-city/orange-city-town-history/
The first inhabitants of the area were Timacuans, a nomadic tribe who found a land of plenty (fresh water, fish and game). One (if not the) of the first European settlers to the are are thought to have been Louis and Mary Thursby , who arrived by riverboat in 1856 and built their first home here: a log cabin at Blue Springs at its junction with the St. John’s River.
It wasn’t till after the Civil War that settlers started to be attractive to the exotic climes of Florida—Thursby’s Landing soon became a site for every thing as arriving settlers to the mail as well as supplies from Jacksonville and points further north.
Soon a town sprang up (about 3 miles east of the landing. Orange City was founded in 1875, incorporated in 1882 and by 1885 had approx. 800 residents.
About Orange City, Florida
Orange City is located midway between Orlando and Daytona Beach. Orange City is one of the region’s major centers of retail and commerce and boasts a healthy business community with everything from retail to heavy industrial, all while fostering a strong entrepreneurial spirit for new businesses.
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1940 New York World’s Fair Small Vase With Handles
$35.60
That’s it for this week—we’ll continue our tour next Wed. when we continue with memories
