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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B9K_lawton-house_Oviedo-FL.html
Oviedo pioneer J. H. Lee Sr. built the Lawton House in 1890 on South Central avenue near the old downtown crossroads. In 1910, Mr. Lee sold the home to his newly wed daughter Charlotte "Lottie" Lee and her husband Thomas Willington Lawto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R1P_lake-jesup_Oviedo-FL.html
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The Oviedo area was first referred to as the Lake Jesup Settlement. Lake Jesup's first store was built on the southern shore in 1870 by John F. Mitchell. Antonio Solary, a Jacksonville merchant, built another store with a larger wharf we…
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In the late 1860's Confederate veterans and freed slaves from the war-devastated South began to move into the settlement called "the Lake Jesup Community," to be joined later by others from Northern states and from Sweden. One of the Swe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R1F_jamestown_Oviedo-FL.html
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The name "JAMESTOWN" is a tribute to Benjamin and Esther James. The James' homesteaded about 1900 on 160 acres in the area known as "The Woods" on the northern edge of the settlement of Gabriella. Mr. Ben James built a home and farm on s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R1E_chuluota_Oviedo-FL.html
The name Chuluota, probably of Indian derivation, should be pronounced Chu' le o tah.
The late Josie Jacobs Prevatt wrote: "Soon after the close of the Civil War several families residing in Whitesville, N.C. decided to move to Florida." Nine f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R1A_slavia_Oviedo-FL.html
In 1911 some members of Holy Trinity Slovak Lutheran Church, Cleveland, Ohio, organized the Slavia Colony Company as an agency to help them establish a settlement in the area now traversed by Red Bug Lake Road, Mikler Road and State Road 426. Earl…