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Mellonville on the south shores of Lake Jessup near a settlement called Tuskawilla shores of Lake Monroe was the original settlement from —a Seminole Indian word meaning STRONG WATE S. which the city of Sanford evolved. Fort Gatlin was built two The settlement was named after an 18th century In ian miles south of the anent Orlando site bringing an influx of village in Alachua County that is now the site of the city of settlers and the birth of the Orlando settlement. Our area, Micanopy. Recognizing the potential of the area, Brantley however, remained wild and unspoiled. In 1894 and again bought the land on which his store was located in 1874. An in 1895 severe freezesdevestated the Florida citrus groves enterprising settler named Oliver Prince established a Post to the north, and the citrus industry shifted to the Central Office nearby, called it Tuskawilla and advised the Post Florida somewhat stimulating the growth in the area. Work Oft ice Department that he would serve a population of 200 on the Florida Turnpike began in 1955 and was completed that was growing last. This population figure represented in 1957. The Disney World venture was announced in 1966 exceptional growth in that one settler travelling the area in and the park was opened to the public in October of 1971. the late 1850's claimed to have found only six white families During the building of Disney World, three men (Roy inthetotal area between Mellonville(Sanford)and Orlando. Dye.Bill Goodman and Norm Rossman)shared a common Brantley's dreams of developing the area were never ful- vision of a large self-contained,multi-use community in the filled. He died in 1878 at the age of 41. quiet pastures,groves,streams and lakes of South Semi- The earliest recorded document which conveys title to role County. The acquisition began in 1969 with the the Brantley site as well as the land now occupied by purchase of lands form Gardena Farms in the Village of Tuscawilla is a Spanish land grant of 29 March 1815 in North Orlando and from the Dyson family in Seminole which a gift of 25,000 acreas of land was presented by royal County. The project was named Winter Springs. Since part order to Don P. Robt. Yonge for his"distinguished and ex- of the property was in the Village of North orlando and the traordinary services by which he has contrbuted personally remainder inthe unincorporated portionof Seminole County, and with his money to the defense of this said province at it was decided to bring it all together by annexing the Dyson different times and principally during the insurrection which property into the city. This was done in 1971, and the took place in the year 1812..." The grant consisted of Winter Springs P.U.D. (Planned Unit Development) was 12,000 acres in the neighborhood of the lake or lagoon born. For reasons unrecorded, Unit One was not included known as Valdes' (presently Lake Monroe and the site of in the annexation. One final change remained to bring us the cry of Sanford) and 13,000 acres at the lake known as today. This took place in 1972 when the Village of North Long Lake (presently Lake Jessup) including the area Orlando,seeking its own identity,adopted the name Winter containing our Tuscawilla acreage. Springs for the city. To avoid any confusion, the name When Spain transferred their Florida colony to the Tuscawilla was adopted for the development based on the United States in 1821,there were some 4300 white inhabi- historic name from the areas past and the resultant tants clustered along the coast and 200 to 300 more white Tuskawilla-Gabrialla Road. The"k"was changed to"c"to settlers in North Florida. The rest of Florida belonged to the provide our own unique nom de plume. Indians - primarily Seminoles. The Seminoles, however, Development actually started in 1969 with Unit One were not natives of Florida. As a splinter group from the being platted and recorded in 1970. George Nader,who Creek Indian tribes of Georgia,they had broken from their remains one of the Tuscawilla builders today,built the first nation to the north in the 18th century to form a confedera- home that same year and sold it for $29,000. Winter tion in the less civilized areas of the south. For this action, Springs Boulevard was built in 1973 which coincided with they earned the name Seminole derived from a Creek work the completion of the Joe Lee designed 18-holegolf course "Sim-in-oli" meaning "runaway" or 'Wild". In 1823, the in September of that year. Growth has been rapid since the Federal government forced a treaty on the Seminoles re- early seventies. A major portion of Tuscawilla's 3,400 quiring them to move to a 5 million acre area in Central acres are either completed or under active development. Florida including the land occupied by Tuscawilla. When Tuscawilla is completely built out by 1990, it will Florida gained territorial status in 1822 and statehood in boast a community of over 6,000 families, schools, parks, 1845 with a population of approximately 66,500. During shopping center,offices and other amenities. Best of all it's these early days some of the more adventuresome white just a great place to live. pioneers settled in the inland areas of Central Florida,and / 9 9V suet., .' ': l i. i _____. . lit • ,,, c.., A ` J' e - $t.tk ) , J aAM1 .. ,Ian j . .. - 'JQ1YIMt my y ALTMgNTE SPRINGS HISTOSCAL SOCIETY THE SANFORD MUSEUM This springhouse was at Altamonte Springs, The, The Sanford clock has had many homes; original- spring has been paved over for a parking lot. ly it was mounted on the Lyman Bank building. The little things recall county's history By Jim Robison ;, a F.:- In the 1970s, the namesake OF THE SENTINEL$TAPE t 4f 'i c T . springs were capped and paved �“ c 6.2i� ti: over for an office building's park- :„; Y--"--- j'• ing lot. With today's "Seminoles Past" • a I FT T ` ✓ ✓ ✓ are photographs of a landmark �� clock,bricks from an old road and __ 11�{tai i �� a springhouse. _� r r( ir_e�nt t Downtown Sanford would not , 6L+ 4 have the same character without Each has its own place in Semi- r3' its clock. This landmark once note County's history. hung from the side of the 1883 Ly- And each shares a common fate: Seminoles past man Bank, the first bank in Cen- None appears today as it did in tral Florida and the birthplace of the county's early days. ALTERED LANDMARKS Rollins College. The college's __ trustees had their first meeting to ✓ Po too its charter in 1885 at the bank at First Street and Park Ave- The springhouse on Lake Ad- A group of Boston millionaires nue. Banker Frederick Lyman elaide represents the long-gone selected the land between lakes was elected as the first president namesake of the city of Altamonte Adelaide and Oriente for a winter of what has become Florida's old Springs,which next year will cele- resort. On 1,200 acres between the est private institution of higher brate its 75th anniversary. During shores of the spring-fed lakes they learning. the city's first boom times, built the largest wooden inn in The clock later was moved te wealthy Northerners spent their Florida, The Altamonte. From the the six-story First National Bank winters at what then was known springhouse, water was pumped until it was taken down during as Snow Station. to the hotel. renovation. Later donated to the - city,the clock and its metal housr ing were mounted above traffic lights at the intersection of First Street and Park Avenue. When traffic increased, the city took down the clock. It reappeared al the Elks Lodge on Second Street with a new face:a BPOE elk. g y o 3 a 7 In 1985, a rebuilt version of the four-faced clock returned to down- town atop a black iron pole with a ired-brick base as the centerpiece of the renamed Magnolia Mall. d ]- OPEN Outside the Museum of Semi- 't 9 P 'R x Hole County History at Five ,�, T Points along U.S. Highway 17-92 HI +,gt �. . . is a brick sidewalk. The worn bricks were once part of a pioneer highway linking Sanford and Oviedo. The road was built in the early 1900s of brick with concrete retainers along each side. At that time, the county-had two brick- " yards,one at the Swedish commu- »a. {uty of Upsala and another at Mer rift, a community southeast of s 6 `' - Sanford near the St.Johns Riven "'.'p, s? 'a • • , The bricks were about to be- yrF. �• come junk in the mid-1980s, £ ?r paved over to make room for a r - c v u-•t : school bus depot in Winter r Springs and a new road to serve 'e® rr ._ t* e Lt x v.{ neazby industries. Instead, some fists "fro ,¢' of the bricks — added to others :t r if re h f >r - — were used in the entranceway ,rD and courtyard in front of the mu- seum. Others were used in a c - courtyard be the museum. �W�wt��kM35II x`w. SENTINEL FILE PHOTO Many feet trod these old bricks on the road between Sanford and Oviedo.They are preserved at the Seminole County museum. • 9yo9a7 • Early Floridians left dues to their culture I This is the first of a three-part series marking the 35th anniversary of Winter Springs, chartered June 20, 1959. This t tl week:A Yankee newspaper correspondent =�— _'r--- dwcovets the wilds of Lake Jesup, once T part of the Timucuans' Kingdom of the A4`� ' _ shs ____ 1 �° 1 t P 6$Jgm Robison --s 'n[t '' , or t*en* tsun : ni. 1- •"ey _ —..7....-^?" a--. The dateline of George R. Newell's Seminole' s past o 5 git Nov:30, 1880'"Letter from Florida" was WINTER SPRINGS Clifton Springs, a steamboat trading set- tlement on the south shore of Lake Je- s1lp. -The,.scene Newell_dscribed in 1881 The Maryland tlaiiyer touring Central' had changed little'since' the first Winter Morida's,interior as a newspaper corre- Springs residents following the meander- spondent dispatched three other reports ing St. Johns River inland from the matt Mr the Baltimore Sun through February thousands of years ago to find a towering 1881. bald cypress. ;His last dispatch describes a journey Known today as The Senator, the big from Clifton Springs through what today tree was a landmark for Florida's native is the Tuscawilla community to the farm- tribes gathering to trade.The cypress tree lands near the Gabriella settlement. (His is in Big Tree Park off U.S. Highway 17- path would have passed between 92 within Seminole County's Spring Tuskawilla Road and the Central Florida Hammock preserve. The nearby county GreeneWay.) museum sits on a rise that historians be- "The heat of the sun's rays as they shot lieve is an ancient tribal mound. It could down from a cloudless sky was tempered have been a settlement or one of a series tp.mildness by the breeze which blew all of mounds, maybe three, that served as day from the northwest,"he wrote. signal points between Lake Monroe and • interior settlements. He went on to describe the pine lands and hammocks south of the lake. Historians believe these early tribes spent their winters along the coast but "These pine lands are an unvaried migrated inland in the summer to hunt monotony of wire grass and pine trees. and trade. The Senator served as a land- Neither winter nor spring have in any mark to guide them to trading grounds. Way changed the condition they were in These tribes often left behind artifact- when I arrived here in the late autumn. filled mounds, called middens, where the hammocks...are different.Here the they piled sand, shells, food scraps and land is low,frequently verging to swamp- other debris from all sorts of uses. Some- ness, and, in place of being composed of times,they simply needed higher ground pure sand,is rich with the deposits of de- for signal towers or their stilted homes. ciyed vegetable matter.These hammocks Sometimes the mounds were used for ate heavily timbered with live oaks,inter- burying the dead. mingled with bay,sweet gum,maple,pal- What today is Wjnter Swings was once nfetto and many other trees, together part of the Timucuans' Kingdom of the With vines an almost impenetrable mass of Sun, extending over North and Central vine and bushes. It is here that the arri- Fluids vel of spring is apparent. The deciduous totes have already arrayed themselves in Based on Indian middens scattered their new foliage, while the flowering along the rivers of Central Florida, re- nts and vines make the air redolent searchers have established that the first With their perfume." settlers arrived in this region as early as QVo ‘roif' t,� ' ,.i 't's+r~ #. T` is �., K. 2000 B.C.to 1000 B.C. x4" ,-rt-xy y�i 'P.. /t �'� t P .: `Kissimmee hero' put Seminole on map:: By Jim Robison :,.., posed the split by telegraphing them before the bill was intrc- or THE SENTNELSTAFF if duced in the House that he would: � Yf'. support it in the Senate. .. Seminole County owes its inde- ' // R FT f ,.,, The Daily South Florida Sent," pendence from Orange County to :i ar. � jra� 1 �: 0 net criticized Donegan, saying a cattleman-banker-state senator _� . ' 1-4 I "This savors of a deal, and thrs. from Kissimmee. , ,� _ ,� newspaper believes a deal was In exaggerated language, news- -, _ - -d made, and that the parties wh$_ paper correspondent D.B. Potts _ s made this deal were Representst` wrote that in 15 years of ranching Seminole's past five Lake and Senator Donegan. and banking, Arthur E. Donegan State Rep. Forrest Lake of San. had "managed to accumulate a COUNTY RIVALRY ford, who once ran for speaker of bank roll that would shame the House,used his clout in Taller,_ Rockefeller. ... Money comes to between Osceola and Orange hassee to win a 59-5 House vote, him in box cars...:' for the split. Donegan delivered a.. counties began in the late 1800s. unanimous Senate vote. Donegan once sold 18,000 head Osceola was created in 1887 from of cattle in one deal. Still, Potts portions of Orange and Brevard , The Sanford Herald wrote that-. wrote, "He is the same courteous counties. The same bill included the argument made to oppose the and pleasing gentleman, whether provisions to shave portions of Or- split was "pitifully weak in every he is signing a check for$500,000 ange, Sumter and Hillsborough detail, and was the last will and or whether he is handing out a counties to create Lake County. testament of the dying county of quarter to a blind man." By the early 1900s, decades of Orange." Donegan owned vast acres from rivalry between politicians and The Jacksonville Times-Union Kissimmee south to lake Okee- businessmen in Orlando and San- reported that residents of the new chobee. He also was president of ford resulted in the last split in Seminole County rewarded Done,. banks in St. Cloud, Haines City Orange County. Sanford and near- gan with a Tiffany gift, "a beauti and Kissimmee and was a director by communities had established flit bejeweled Elk pin." for two insurance companies. separate identities from Orlando - Donegan was introduced at IN Donegan, first elected to the long before. Sanford rally as "the Seminole- state House in 1907, later won One of the strongest voices for hem from Kissimmee." election to the Senate. In 1913 he the split came from Donegan, He survived the turbulent po- was serving as chairman of the whose 19th district in 1913 includ- litical times to remain a strong Senate committee on public lands ed Osceola and Orange counties. voice for Central Florida. and drainage,giving him a power- The vote from Sanford had fill voice for cattlemen from Or- helped Kissimmee voters send "Senator Donegan has a greater ange and Osceola counties south Donegan to Tallahassee instead of `cracker' following than perhaps to the Everglades. the challenger from Orlando, a any other member," Potts wrote. County splits in Florida were point raised bitterly by Orlando's “Down in South never aFlorida,i they common.In 1910,the state had 47 newspapers. swear by him but never at him" counties.Now there are 87. Donegan had infuriated Orlan- 'Jim Robison is an editor fu, The Political aid economic rivalries do newspaper editors who op- Orlando Sentinel. 9 so / O/ MATTERS OF FACT Since 1868, Central Florida has been home to seven House Speakers and four Senate Presidents.. In 1881, J.J. Harris of Tuskawilla, then part of Cr- ) ange County, became the first Central Floridian to 'n, serve as Speaker of the House. Jesse J. Parrish of V. Titusville became the first to lead the Senate in 1929.John Vogt of Cocoa Beach was Senate presi- dent in 1987-88. T.K. Wetherell of Daytona Beach 1 was speaker in 1991-92. v Orange County hasn't had a House speaker or Senate president since George H. Browne was speaker in 1887. Browne lived in Oviedo, which at a the time was part of Orange County. Related stories,A-1,A-s gs03 07 Communities don names�y� .� given by lakeside settlers Oviedo, Winter Springs and most of the other communities of Florida Breezes, the Mickler east Seminole County grew out of elrilliOle s family's 11-room house stuffed the Lake Jesup farming communi- past with rare and out-of-print books ties of the 1800s. on Florida's history, was built in Walter Gwynn, who as a gov- JIM ROBISON 1913 on Lake Catherine for the wife of one of Flagler's land ernment and railroad surveyor saw more of Florida than most of agents, Charles Brumley. His wife those in his time, picked land for - had refused to leave her home in his home along the southern edge .. . -. St. Augustine for "this God-forsa- his Lake Jesup. He once owned i ken end of the country" before a most of Oviedo. ny _ decent A to home was built. Family history says Lake - ... A Tura sawmill and cattle set- Charm was named by one of c—r " � nearby would grow Seven around Gwynn's daughters. The lake be- ' .e ��'_+ nearby Lake Mills. Seven saw- came the site of a resort commu- mills thrived in the early 1900s. nity where Northerners built win- Most Central Floridians have Geneva ter homes along its shores. Dr. family ties to other states or Plentiful water and open range Henry Foster, who had come to countries. This is the last of three for their cattle brought the first the area on a fishing and hunting columns on the first settlements settlers to the lowlands between chief becamer the community's in what today is Seminole Coun- lakes Jesup and Harney in the ty. Today: the east Seminole years after the war ended between Jacksonville merchant Antonio communities. Salary saw an opportunity to es- the North and the South. It would tablish a wharf and store to pro- be the generosity of one Russian vide goods for the influx of set- ner, Daniel Mitchell, made their Adelaide Deborgary, and would tiers. He selected land along the wharf and general store at 'Ilrska- help establish the community now lake's southern edge near Sweet- Willa Landing the center of corn- known as Geneva. With the De- water Creek. Solary's store sold merce for settlements south of borgarys'gift of land,the commu- soda that he bottled nearby, plus Lake Jesup to Maitland, Winter nity built a church, a cemetery essential goods for settlers —gro- Park, Orlando and Kissimmee. and a school. aeries and cartridges- He even Lumbering crews,sawmills and Others came to the rural corn- sold wagons and bicycles. turpentine stills set up businesses munity to plant citrus and build Mills Lord brought the mail in areas with oak trees and tall packing houses. More came as la- twice a week by rowing across pines. Cattle grazed near spring- borers at the turpentine works Lake Jesup to the post office at fed lakes. the wharf, p Fewer than 600 and the huge cypress mill. In 1879, when families wanted residents of the village when it Namesnsayso the community was Flori a post office closer than the one at was incorporated as North Orlan- named in 1880 for Switzerland's Salary's wharf, postmaster An- do in 1969. By 1972 residents, lake and city drew Aulin chose the name Ovie- tired of the name, were looking Local historians, though, say do after a city in northern Spain. for something with a separate the community took its name to The postmaster wanted a Spanish identity. By referendum that year, honor the wife of a railroad man name to match the name of the voters agreed to change the corn- from New Geneva,N.Y In the late state. munity's name to Winter Springs. 1870s,Mrs.Van Valkenburg built a Winter Springs Nowadays, Winter Springs is the home at Harney Cove.She is cred- largest of Seminole County's sev- iced with bringing about the Moses Levy, a New York mer- en cities. chant, amassed hundreds of thou- change of the community name sands of acres of Florida's wilds in Cf1UlUOta to Geneva. the years just before Spain sur- Robert A. Mills in the 1880s ron On landlfor a town hall to oseh Gar- rendered Florida to the United started a community along a lake "the village of Geneva." States in 1821. dotted with islands of pines. He The single-story structure was His holdings from Spanish selected the name Chuluota, the later renovated and a second story land grants included all of what Creek word for"pine island." added by the Workmen of the today is Winter Springs. Chuluota's largest lake and World. Homesteader Vincent Lee set- Lake Mills Park are named for the A second town hall,using some tled near the southwest shore of community's founder. Lake Jesup at the trading camps Henry Flagler liked the 1 of builhe original extt in the byr wood, was y the of Clifton Springs and 1Lskawilla sound, so he kept it in 1892 when Progress Administration. Works Landing, which were prospering he formed the Chuluota Land Co. in the 1880s. to sell acreage owned by his rail- Jim Robison is an editor for - George Brantley and his part- road. 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