Turpentine Industry

Areas of Seminole County were used for turpentine production from the 1870s until the 1930s because of the numerous pine trees available for harvesting in the area. The industry's production process took place in two major steps. First, large numbers ...

Naval Air Station Stanford Memorial Park

The Naval Air Station at Sanford was opened in 1942 during World War II and trained an estimated 50 percent of naval fighter and bomber pilots during the war. It was decommissioned in 1946, following the end of the war. ...

Lake Jesup

Lake Jesup is located in Seminole County and is part of the St. Johns River System. General Thomas Sidney Jesup of the United States Army named the lake after himself during the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). The lake is 13 ...

Florida Land and Colonization Company

The Florida Land and Colonization Company was located in Sanford, Florida in Seminole County. The Company was established by Henry Sanford in 1880, who hoped to use the Company to help sell and develop his land holdings in Florida. The ...

Stephen W. Pless

Marine Major Stephen W. Pless served his country during the Vietnam conflict, where circumstances placed a premium on his courage and skill as a helicopter pilot. Pless was born Stephen Pollard on September 6, 1939, in Newnan, Georgia. At a ...

Private Rosamond Johnson Jr.

U.S. Army Private Rosamond Johnson, Jr. was one of many African American soldiers who died to protect freedoms that a segregated society often denied them. Born on May 18, 1933, Johnson lied about his age and joined the Army at ...

Corporal Jonathan R. Spears

USMC Corporal Jonathan R., J.R., Spears was a selfless individual that became an unfortunate casualty of the recent conflict in Iraq. Born in Pensacola, Florida on June 30, 1984 to Marie and Timothy Spears, J.R. grew up in the small ...

Captain Richard Bradford State Historical Marker

In March 1861, 15 days before Confederate batteries began firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, Richard Bradford enlisted in the Confederate army at Madison. Less than seven months later, Bradford became the first Confederate officer from Florida to die ...

Thompson House & Civil War Skirmish

A double-sided State Historical Marker for The Thompson House and the Skirmish on the Blackwater provides Information on the c.1847 Thompson House and on the October 1864 Union raids in the area. The house was the residence of Benjamin W. ...

Woodlawn Cemetery - West Palm Beach

In a roundabout at its center, this cemetery contains a Confederate monument erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1941.

Also buried in this cemetery are approximately 30 Union veterans, including Willmon Whilldin of the 6th New Jersey ...