The Happy Place

In 1950 Walt recreated the barn from Marceline at his home in California and used it as his personal workshop.

It became his "Happy Place" and became the birthplace of "Disney Imagineering."

Marker can be reached from West Broadway Avenue 0.1 miles ...

Citrus to Celery

At the turn of the twentieth century the City of Sanford was one of the largest fruit and vegetable shipping centers in the United States. In the 1870s, the citrus industry was an integral part of the area's economy when ...

The Commercial Appeal / Publishing Locations

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The Commercial Appeal

This newspaper began in 1839 as THE WESTERN WORLD & MEMPHIS BANNER OF THE CONSTITUTION. In 1840 Col. Henry Van Pelt bought and renamed it THE MEMPHIS APPEAL. During the Civil War it published on the run ...

The Ball-Carlin Cemetery

Here between 1766 and 1908 were buried members of the Ball and Carlin families. In 1742 John Ball was granted 166 acres in this area and in 1748 his brother Moses Ball was granted 91 adjoining acres, now the site ...

Carlin Community Hall

Since its construction in 1892 as a meeting hall, this building has been in continuous community service. In addition to its use for community meetings, the building also was used for an elementary school, church services, a nursery school, a ...

The Aerospace Valley

They All Had The Right Stuff

With more than 150 "First Flight" records and numerous milestone in flight, the Antelope Valley has been home to Aerospace throughout the century. These numerous accomplishments include:

-Air Force Capt. Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager's ...

Chillicothe

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On rolling land above the Grand, and between Thompson River and Medicine Creek, Chillicothe was laid out in 1837 as seat of newly organized Livingston County. The name is for Edward Livingston, U. S. Secy. of State, and the ...

Battle of Hickory Point

In September, 1856, a band of Proslavery men sacked Grasshopper Falls (Valley Falls) and terrorized the vicinity. On the 13th, the Free-State leader James H. Lane with a small company besieged a party of raiders in log buildings at Hickory ...

Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse

Construction of this 4,300-foot long breakwater began in April 1881. Eighteen years, $750,000 and over 732,277 tons of granite later, it was completed on November 24, 1899. The lighthouse dates from 1902 and was placed on the National Register of ...

Rollins College

Florida's Oldest Institution of Higher Education

Was on

28 April 1885

Incorporated, organized and named in the Lyman Bank Bldg.,

southwest corner of Park and First Streets here in

Sanford

by

Rev. E. P. Hooker D. D.

Rev. J. A. ...