Community

A gathering of townspeople pose for the camera at the intersection of Plant and Main Streets in this ca.1913 photo. Members of the J. L. Dillard family stand next to the car at right. The Bank of Winter Garden is at left, across the street from the Dillard and Boyd Building (1912), which replaced the previous wooden structures that burned in the 1909 fire. The slightly taller building, just south of the Dillard and Boyd, is the South Apopka Supply Company and, on the south side of the Tavares and Gulf tracks, stands the building which today houses West Orange Glass and Mirror. The two-story building on the east side of the street, south of the bank, is now the Winter Garden Feed Store; W.B. Burch and William Story published The Town Crier here for a time. The building lost its second story in a 1920s fire. Notice the pitcher pump, which was used for watering horses, on the right in the foreground.