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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R64_jack-kerouac-house_Orlando-FL.html
Writer Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) lived and wrote in this 1920s tin-roofed house between 1957 and 1958. It was here that Kerouac received instant fame for publication of his bestselling book, On the Road, which brought him acclaim and controversy as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R3V_the-cathedral-church-of-saint-luke_Orlando-FL.html
Francis Wayles Eppes, grandson of President Thomas Jefferson, moved from Tallahassee to Orlando in 1869. Eppes was the first pioneer to gather Episcopal settlers in the area for worship. They purchased this site at the corner of Jefferson Street, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R3K_eppes-shine-plot-greenwood-cemetery_Orlando-FL.html
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Buried here are members of the Eppes and Shine families, descendants of President Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and the father of the University of Virg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R2Y_winter-garden-downtown-historic-district_Winter-Garden-FL.html
On this corner, farmers built a small wooden train station soon after the Orange Belt Railroad reached the area in 1886. By 1899, the Taveres & Gulf Railroad constructed a second rail line and depot nearby. Wooden stores rose alongside the paralle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R2X_1887-windermere-schoolhouse_Windermere-FL.html
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Opened in 1887, this structure is the only surviving one-room school house in Orange County, and one of the few still standing in Florida. The Frame Vernacular building, capped with a metal roof, was communally constructed using locally …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KDM_1972-b-52-crash_Orlando-FL.html
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At 11:20 a.m. on March 31, 1972, a 306th Bombardment Wing B-52D Stratofortress bomber stationed at nearby McCoy Air Force Base (now Orlando International Airport) crashed on this site. The plane, which was not carrying any weapons, had l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JK2_pounds-motor-company_Winter-Garden-FL.html
Constructed in 1926, this building housed Pounds Motor Company for 82 years. Here, Hoyle Pounds operated the largest tractor dealership in the southeast U.S. As early as 1918, Pounds encouraged citrus owners to replace mules used to plow groves wi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GGI_tyrannosaurus-rex_Kissimmee-FL.html
This fossil cast is an exact replica of "Sue", the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton ever found. Named for her discoverer, Sue was found in South Dakota on August 12, 1990. Sue is 90% complete, a fossil find of enormous importance…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GBN_the-liberty-tree_Orlando-FL.html
Under the boughs of the original Liberty Tree in Boston in 1765, patriots, calling themselves "The Sons of Liberty," gathered to protest the imposition of the Stamp Act. In the years that followed, almost every American town had a Liber…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G6I_the-liberty-bell_Orlando-FL.html
The Province Bell was the name first used to describe me. I was ordered from the English bell foundry of Whitechapel in 1751 by the Pennsylvania Assembly. I was to be part of the celebration which would commemorate the 50th anniversary of William …