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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM130S_civil-war_Sanford-FL.html
In 1861, following years of increasing hostility over the issues of slavery and states' rights, slave holding states separated from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Civil War (War Between the States) began April …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM130M_second-seminole-war_Sanford-FL.html
The Second Seminole War was the most costly war, in lives and money, ever fought by the United States government against Native Americans. This second of three wars resulted from the Treaty of Payne's Landing in 1832 which required the Seminoles t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11OU_city-of-sanford-world-war-memorial_Sanford-FL.html
DedicatedBy the City ofSanford to herSons who made theSvpreme SacrificeIn the World War
A D 1926
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11OT_seminole-county-world-war-monument_Sanford-FL.html
(Base: front side)Dedicatedtothe Memory ofthe brave sons ofSeminole Countywho laid their liveson the sacrificial altarofDemocracyin the World War1914 — 1918
(Base: right side)Erected and presentedtoSeminole CountybyFrank L. Miller
(Bas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11JT_veterans-memorial-park_Sanford-FL.html
Veterans Memorial Park was built in 1924 as part of the bulkhead project along Sanford's waterfront. The original park was built as the city pier and yacht basin. The park had a large concrete bandshell and a flagpole with a tiered fountain at its…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11IB_the-gate-city-of-south-florida_Sanford-FL.html
In 1842, the U.S. Government began to encourage settlers to relocate to Florida by offering free land. Settlers came from all along the east coast, mostly Georgia, Virginia, and the Carolinas.
In 1870 Henry Sanford acquired 12,548 acres of land…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11H4_st-johns-river-and-lake-monroe_Sanford-FL.html
Sanford sits on the southern shore of Lake Monroe in the middle basin of the St. Johns River. The river rises in the marshes of Indian River County and flows slowly north 310 miles to Jacksonville and the Atlantic Ocean. The river spreads out in a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11GX_sanfords-first-residents_Sanford-FL.html
Over 1,000 years ago, the Timucua (tee-MOO-quo) people established villages in this area. They fished, hunted, and grew crops such as maize, squash, and beans.
By the 1700s, the Timucuans began to disappear as they succumbed to war and disease …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11GN_hotel-forrest-lake_Sanford-FL.html
Known by local residents as the "Mayfair," this three-story Mediterranean Revival hotel was built in 1925. It was named after Forrest Lake, at the time the mayor of the City of Sanford, who commissioned its construction for one-half million dollar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11GM_citrus-to-celery_Sanford-FL.html
At the turn of the twentieth century the City of Sanford was one of the largest fruit and vegetable shipping centers in the United States. In the 1870s, the citrus industry was an integral part of the area's economy when Henry S. Sanford establish…