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Orlando High School Homecoming VI
Orlando High School classes of 1927 through 1952 gather every few years at the site of their old Alma Mater, now Howard Middle School.  Howard Middle School has been carefully maintaining  the classic exterior look of the original high school...
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Historic Orlando
ABOVE: The Orlando Opera House. The Opera House was located on Court Street in the middle of block between Pine and Church streets and across from Richards Undertaker business. It can be found on the 1884 Orlando Business District map. Explore...
Places
Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home
Florida's Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home opened in Jacksonville in April 1893 and was dedicated on April 6, 1893. The Home was first financed and maintained by the United Confederate Veterans, Sons of Confederate Veterans and Martha Reid Chapter ...
Events
Orlando Senior High School Commencement 1942
Program for the commencement exercises Orlando Senior High School at the Municipal Auditorium, Friday Evening June 5, 1942, 8:00 P.M. The Rev. J. H. Rutter of Broadway Methodist Church did the invocation; The Rev. J. Powell Tucker of the First Baptist...
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Charles Gray Oral History Interview
My name is Charles Gray and I'm from really Orlando except that I was born in Leesburg, Florida. And I moved to Orlando in the fifth grade and I've been here ever since except in 1969 I bought a ranch...
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Ruth Butler's Oral History Interview
My father gets to Lake Monroe with his truck and at that time there was no I-4, he was going around Lake Monroe with their palm trees and just fell in love. And he sent my mom a postcard and...
People
Dorothy Marie Johansson
Dorothy Marie Johansson was born August 3, 1924. She  had a little sister named Barbara and graduated from Orlando Senior High School  in 1942. She was the daughter of Roslyn Holloway of Pavo,  Georgia and Karl Gunnar Johansson  who came to...
People
In Search of Dorothy
Jet Wintter Seghers died in 1996. Her daughter Christi Malone found a mounted photograph of Dorothy "Dottie" Johansson taken on her wedding day and began an 18 year search for Dorothy's family, so she could return the beautiful photograph. Christi...
Places
Lake Eola Park
Lake Eola Park is the most historic and widely recognized symbol of the city of Orlando.  It was established in 1883 as the city's first public park after Orlando homesteaders Jacob and Fanny Summerlin donated the lake and some of the...
Events
Orlando Tigers Play Leesburg at Tinker Field 1940
Program for the home game between Orlando High School Tigers and Leesburg at Tinker Field, played November 8, 1940. Included in the program are great photographs and the names of the players, their numbers, positions, schedule for the year and many...
People
Dorothy Glynn Dollins Jones Staples Segool
DOROTHY GLYNN DOLLINS JONES STAPLES SEGOOL Dorothy was a wife, mother and grandmother, loved by her family and friends, and she will be dearly missed. A rarity, Dorothy was an Orlando native. She was born in 1925 to John William and...
People
Jet Wintter Seghers Prendeville 1926-1996
Jet Wintter Seghers was born in New Orleans in 1926.  When she was about 13 years old, the family moved to Orlando, Florida where her father was general manager for a box company.  She attended Orlando High School, graduating in...