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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WOO_st-marys-missionary-baptist-church-datson-dairy-historical_Orlando-FL.html
(side 1) St. Mary's Missionary Baptist Church St. Mary's Missionary Baptist Church was built on land donated by Mary Walker in 1915. It was a small frame building with a steeple to the side of the main entrance The small African American commu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WJ5_atlantic-coastline-station-historical_Orlando-FL.html
(side 1) In 1880, the South Florida Railroad built a railway through Orlando. The small community boomed with land speculators, citrus and cattle investors, and tourists. In 1902, the larger Atlantic Coastline Railroad acquired the South Florida …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RC1_conway-united-methodist-church-brick-road_Orlando-FL.html
(side 1) Conway United Methodist Church The Conway Methodist Church was first organized in 1874 as the Prospect Methodist Episcopal Church South. Services were held monthly in a log cabin and led be a circuit rider. The building also served as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R82_h-h-dickson-azalea-park-washington-street-bridge_Orlando-FL.html
(side A) H. H. Dickson Azalea Park Dickson Azalea Park began as a natural stream, later named Fern Creek, in a deep ravine surrounded by native ferns, palms, and oaks. It once was a watering hole for cattle herders driving their animals south.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R64_jack-kerouac-house_Orlando-FL.html
Writer Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) lived and wrote in this 1920s tin-roofed house between 1957 and 1958. It was here that Kerouac received instant fame for publication of his bestselling book, On the Road, which brought him acclaim and controversy as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R3V_the-cathedral-church-of-saint-luke_Orlando-FL.html
Francis Wayles Eppes, grandson of President Thomas Jefferson, moved from Tallahassee to Orlando in 1869. Eppes was the first pioneer to gather Episcopal settlers in the area for worship. They purchased this site at the corner of Jefferson Street, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R3K_eppes-shine-plot-greenwood-cemetery_Orlando-FL.html
(side 1) Buried here are members of the Eppes and Shine families, descendants of President Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and the father of the University of Virg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KDM_1972-b-52-crash_Orlando-FL.html
(side 1) At 11:20 a.m. on March 31, 1972, a 306th Bombardment Wing B-52D Stratofortress bomber stationed at nearby McCoy Air Force Base (now Orlando International Airport) crashed on this site. The plane, which was not carrying any weapons, had l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GBN_the-liberty-tree_Orlando-FL.html
Under the boughs of the original Liberty Tree in Boston in 1765, patriots, calling themselves "The Sons of Liberty," gathered to protest the imposition of the Stamp Act. In the years that followed, almost every American town had a Liber…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G6I_the-liberty-bell_Orlando-FL.html
The Province Bell was the name first used to describe me. I was ordered from the English bell foundry of Whitechapel in 1751 by the Pennsylvania Assembly. I was to be part of the celebration which would commemorate the 50th anniversary of William …
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