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Corbett Dodd
Basil Corbett Dodd started his own dairy business in Goldenrod at the age of 17 and served as a Seminole County commissioner for over a dozen years.  Born on February 2, 1907, Mr. Dodd's parents moved to central Florida in...
People
Corbin Sarchet
VIEW - Library officials and local dignitaries gather at the West Oaks Branch Library & Genealogy Center to dedicate a plaque to Colonel Corbin Marquand Sarchett, III in honor and recognition of his decades-long support for the Orange County Library...
Places
Postcard Key to Steeple's Past and Future
ABOVE: The Post Chapel at Orlando Air Base, located in tropical garden environs is unique in that it is the only chapel in the entire army that has its steeple on the ground and to the side of the chapel....
Places
Stephen L. Rusk Memorial Chapel Steeple Makes News
Community engages as World Ware II chapel steeple is moved from its historic location on the old Army Air Base, Orlando Naval Training Center, to Thornton Park in downtown Orlando. Read The Orlando Sentinel articles detailing John Moore's efforts to relocate...
Places
Rock Springs
Rock Springs on located near Apopka, in Kelly Park.  Rock Springs Run is a popular spot for tubing, snorkeling, and swimming. View documents attached under Images below. Click on first image to view slide show. To enlarge an image, right click...
Places
Thursby House at Blue Spring
Blue Spring State Park, located in Orange City, Florida, is very popular with manatee watchers during when cold weather presents itself in Central Florida. In addition to being a winter home for manatees in this part of the state, visitors...
Places
Chapel Transitions to Thornton Park Historic District
John Moore preserves the Stephen L. Rusk Memorial Chapel steeple and cupola from the Orlando Naval Training Center (NTC). Moore outlines the transition of the chapel from the NTC to his home in this oral history interview on May 10,...
Places
Army Air Base Chapel Served Generations of Military Families
ABOVE:  The Post Chapel at Orlando Air Base, located in tropical garden environs is unique in that it is the only chapel in the entire army that has its steeple on the ground and to the side of the chapel. The...
People
Dr. Benjamin Patz & Mrs. Anna Mae Patz: Education for Life
We've been married 50 years and we celebrated that this past year. The thing I admire most about him is the fact that he is as brilliant as he is and yet as humble as he is. You can ask...
People
Orville Rhoads Davis
Orville Rhoads Davis came to Orlando in 1929 to serve as principal of Memorial Junior High School, which was located on Rosalind Avenue, facing Lake Eola, where The Metropolitan at Lake Eola condominiums stands today.  (Many may remember this location...
Organizations
Bible Study at St. Michael's Episcopal Church
ABOVE: Photo of the Men's Bible Study group at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park, circa 1950s. ABOVE: Wednesday 10 a.m. Bible Study Class at Saint Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park, circa 1970. Pictured are Lee Marsolf, Virginia Bryan...
Organizations
The Illio - University of Illinois
Excerpts from the 1919, 1921 and 1922 University of Illinois yearbook - "The Illio" - mentioning Dorothy Elizabeth Lumley (Melrose) a student at the Champaign Campus and for whom The Melrose Center at the Orlando Public Library was named. The Illio...