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Title
Westinghouse Electric Collection
Alternative Title
Westinghouse Collection
Subject
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Description
Originally called the Westinghouse Electric Company, George Westinghouse (1846-1914) founded his manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1886. In 1889, he renamed his business the The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Westinghouse's primary products include turbines, generators, motors and switchgear related to the generation, transmission, and use of electricity. The company changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. In 1981, the company began to relocate its divison headquarters for the Steam-Turbine Generator Divisions from Pennsylvania (turbines from Lester and generators from Pittsburgh) to Orlando, Florida. The Power Generation Business Unit (PGBU) building was located in The Quadrangle, at 4400 Alafaya Trail. Originally, Westinghouse had purchased a large plot of land for future development that extended westward from Alafaya Trail to Rouse Road. The original headquarters was located on several acres of that land parcel close to Alafaya Trail.<br /><br />In 1994, after a major corporate management shuffling, and a top-level decision to change from an industrial manufacturing company to primarily a broadcasting/communications company, Westinghouse bought the CBS Network and changed its name to the CBS Corporation. As the PGBU grew in size, other buildings in the area were leased and then, after PGBU was sold to Siemens Corporation of Germany in 1998, additional buildings (Quad II and Quad III) were added to the original complex at the Quadrangle. From 1998 to 2003 the Orlando operation was known as Siemens-Westinghouse, after which the name of Westinghouse was dropped. The operation has been known as Siemens from that time forward.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Orlando, Florida
Curator
DeRosa, Peter
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
8-page magazine article
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Title
Steam-Cooled 501G Rated 230 MW with 2600°F Rotor Inlet Temperature
Alternative Title
Steam-Cooled 501G Rated 230 MW with 2600°F Rotor Inlet Temperature
Subject
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Turbines
Description
The item is a copy of a reprinted article from the <em>Gas Turbine World</em> magazine issue for November-December of 1994. The subject of the article is the Westinghouse-Mitsubishi 501G gas turbine that had been introduced at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Gas Turbine Conference earlier that year. The 501G was a new gas turbine engine design featuring the results of a joint design effort of Westinghouse Power Generation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) of Japan. Other input to the design was provided by other members of a multi-national alliance, which included FiatAvio of Italy and Rolls-Royce of the United Kingdom. The 501G was touted as the "largest and most efficient" gas turbine in the world. Introductory simple-cycle power rating was 230MW and simple-cycle efficiency was 38.5 percent (8,860 Btu/kWh, gas, LHV, ISO conditions). The combined cycle performance being quoted at the time was 345MW with a heat rate of 5,883 Btu/kWh (58% efficiency). The 501G was last of the long line of Westinghouse gas turbines before the company was acquired by Siemens AG of Germany in 1998. The first 501G was built at Westinghouse's factory in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and installed at the McIntosh Station in Lakeland, Florida, in 1998.
Type
Text
Source
Original 8-page magazine article: Farmer, Robert. "Steam-Cooled 501G Rated 230 MW with 2600°F Rotor Inlet Temperature." <a href="http://www.gasturbineworld.com/" target="_blank"><em>Gas Turbine World</em></a>, Vol. 24, No. 6, November-December 1994: Private Collection of Harry Jaeger.
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Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/169" target="_blank">Westinghouse Electric Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 8-page magazine article: Farmer, Robert. "Steam-Cooled 501G Rated 230 MW with 2600°F Rotor Inlet Temperature." <a href="http://www.gasturbineworld.com/" target="_blank"><em>Gas Turbine World</em></a>, Vol. 24, No. 6, November-December 1994.
Coverage
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, The Quadrangle, Orlando, Florida
Creator
Farmer, Robert
Publisher
<a href="http://www.gasturbineworld.com/" target="_blank"><em>Gas Turbine World</em></a>
Contributor
Jaeger, Harry
Date Created
ca. 1994-11
Date Issued
ca. 1994-12
Date Copyrighted
ca. 1994-12
Format
application/pdf
Extent
5.98 MB
Medium
8-page magazine article
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Science Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Robert Farmer and published by <a href="http://www.gasturbineworld.com/" target="_blank"><em>Gas Turbine World</em></a>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="http://www.gasturbineworld.com/" target="_blank"><em>Gas Turbine World</em></a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Jaeger, Harry
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
Westinghouse Electric Corporation Archives
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
501D5
501F
501G
A. J. Ayoob
air-cooled turbines
Alafaya Trail
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Andrew J. Ayoob
Andy Ayoob
ASME Gas Turbine Conference
combined cycles
Combustion Turbine Development Engineering
combustors
D. A. Bartol
Dominic A. Bartol
ECONOPAC
ECY768
Edison Electric Institute
electric utility power
engineering
engineers
FiatAvio
Gas Turbine World
gas turbines
Gerry McQuiggan
heat recovery steam generators
high temperature demonstration unit
HRSG
HTDU
IN939M
industrial gas turbines
industrial power
Les Southall
MAR-M246
MHI
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
MTFIN
Nick Bartol
orlando
PGBU
Phoenix
power generation
Power Generation Business United
Power Generation Technology Division
Robert Farmer
Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce Turbine Aerofoil Manufacturing
rotors
simple cycles
steam cooling
Takasago Works
TRIT
turbine rotor inlet temperatures
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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Title
Westinghouse Electric Collection
Alternative Title
Westinghouse Collection
Subject
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Description
Originally called the Westinghouse Electric Company, George Westinghouse (1846-1914) founded his manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1886. In 1889, he renamed his business the The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Westinghouse's primary products include turbines, generators, motors and switchgear related to the generation, transmission, and use of electricity. The company changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. In 1981, the company began to relocate its divison headquarters for the Steam-Turbine Generator Divisions from Pennsylvania (turbines from Lester and generators from Pittsburgh) to Orlando, Florida. The Power Generation Business Unit (PGBU) building was located in The Quadrangle, at 4400 Alafaya Trail. Originally, Westinghouse had purchased a large plot of land for future development that extended westward from Alafaya Trail to Rouse Road. The original headquarters was located on several acres of that land parcel close to Alafaya Trail.<br /><br />In 1994, after a major corporate management shuffling, and a top-level decision to change from an industrial manufacturing company to primarily a broadcasting/communications company, Westinghouse bought the CBS Network and changed its name to the CBS Corporation. As the PGBU grew in size, other buildings in the area were leased and then, after PGBU was sold to Siemens Corporation of Germany in 1998, additional buildings (Quad II and Quad III) were added to the original complex at the Quadrangle. From 1998 to 2003 the Orlando operation was known as Siemens-Westinghouse, after which the name of Westinghouse was dropped. The operation has been known as Siemens from that time forward.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Orlando, Florida
Curator
DeRosa, Peter
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
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Title
Memorandum from K. A. Oleson and A. R. Collier to Electric Utility Sales and Electric Utility International (September 14, 1983)
Alternative Title
Memo from Oleson & Collier to Electric Utility Sales & Electric Utility International (Sept. 14, 1983)
Subject
Orlando (Fla.)
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Description
A memorandum from Marketing Manager K. A. Oleson and Commercial Operations Manager A. R. Collier to Electric Utility Sales and Electric Utility International regarding the reorganization of Westinghouse Electric Corporation's Steam Turbine Generator Division (STGD). In 1983, the Westinghouse power generation business operation, starting with the Steam Turbine Generator Division, was taking shape in its new Orlando headquarters under the management team led by General Manager Dr. Stan Quick (under E. J. "Gene" Cattabiani, Vice President of the Power Generation Group). This series of letters, memoranda, and charts documents the changes in management leadership at the Orlando site from 1983 through 1998, when the Westinghouse Power Genration Business was acquired by Siemens. Following the announcement of the retirement of Dr. Quick in 1984, the management was led by the team of Bob Ractcliffe and Howard Pierce. In 1987, Tom Campbell was appointed General Manager of the Power Generation Technology Systems Division under Nat Woodsen and Jim Moore, Vice Presidents of the Power Systems Business Unit. In 1988, the Power Generation Business Unit (PGBU) was formed under Frank R. Bakos, Vice President and General Manager (under Executive Vice President Ted Stern), and, in 1995, Randy H. Zwirn took the helm as Vice President and General Manager of the PGBU. He remained at the executive level for 20 years, through the PGBU acquisition by Siemens in 1998 and beyond to 2016.<br /><br />Originally called the Westinghouse Electric Company, George Westinghouse (1846-1914) founded his manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1886. In 1889, he renamed his business The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Westinghouse's primary products include turbines, generators, motors and switchgear related to the generation, transmission, and use of electricity. The company changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. In 1981, the company began to relocate its division headquarters for the Steam-Turbine Generator Divisions from Pennsylvania (turbines from Lester and generators from Pittsburgh) to Orlando. The PGBU building was located in The Quadrangle, at 4400 Alafaya Trail.
Type
Text
Source
Original 15-page typed memorandum from K. A. Oleson and A. R. Collier to Electric Utility Sales and Electric Utility International, September 14, 1983: Private Collection of Harry L. Jaeger.
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Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/169" target="_blank">Westinghouse Electric Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 15-page typed memorandum from K. A. Oleson and A. R. Collier to Electric Utility Sales and Electric Utility International, September 14, 1983.
Coverage
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, The Quadrangle, Orlando, Florida
Creator
Oleson, K. A.
Collier, A. R.
Contributor
Jaeger, Harry L.
Date Created
1983-09-14
Format
application/pdf
Extent
1.51 MB
Medium
15-page typed memorandum
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by K. A. Oleson and A. R. Collier.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="https://www.siemens.com/global/en/home.html" target="_blank">Siemens</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
A. A. Soares
A. A. Zanazanian
A. Bugge
A. C. Martin
A. F. Axt
A. L. Andrews
A. R. Collier
A. S. Workum
A. Stock
Alafaya Trail
B. J. Harkiewicz
B. Tadd
B. W. Morrison
C. E. Davies
C. L. Schoolcraft
C. L. Sturla
C. W. Meck
Craig A. Weeks
Craig Sturla
D. A. Pacyna
D. Amos
D. B. Carson
D. C. Beddingfield
D. Gringer
D. H. Pierce
D. Howard Pierce
D. L. Miller
D. M. Johnson
D. R. Hamzavi
D. R. Spraker
D. W. Drehoff
David R. Hamzavi
Debbie Mursch
Donald M. Johnson
E. A. Izzo
E. C. Bartels
E. J. Barsness
E. J. Kilpela
E. K. Johnson
E. V. Heina
Electric Utility International
Electric Utility Sales
F. A. Rosenthal
F. A. Willa
F. C. Kao
F. J. Merry
F. R. Small
F. R. Vaccaro
F. X. Baldino
G. C. Lamonettin
G. D. Albrecht
G. E. Baker
G. H. Gundy
G. H. Stout
G. J. Dubrasky
G. J. Partridge
G. Lopez
G. M. Clark
G. M. Heck
G. W. Gamble
G. W. Kunkle
George C. Lamonettin
George E. Baker
H. E. Wheeler
H. H. Wittig
H. R. Oliver
H. R. Waltersdorf
H. S. Grassian
H. S. Progler
J. Alba
J. B. Bostick
J. B. Cienki
J. Cicinelli
J. D. Conrad
J. D. Donahue
J. E. Hutter
J. F. Gill
J. F. McNamara
J. F. Sperry
J. G. Micka
J. Green
J. H. Cusack
J. H. Sturges, Jr.
J. Heller
J. J. Leemon
J. L. Shade
J. M. Coffman
J. M. Foley
J. M. Schmerling
J. P. Forquer
J. P. Kessinger
J. R. Auman
J. R. Doyle
J. Randell
J. S. Olszewski
J. Spaziani
J. W. Jeannette
J. W. Minogue
J. Yarusinski
Joe Leemon
John B. Bostick
K. A. Oleson
K. A. Steinebronn
K. H. Steinebronn
Ken Johnson
Kurt A. Steinebronn
L. Conway
L. K. Huber
L. K. Koering
L. R. Southall
M. A. Jenkins
M. A. Neely
M. A. Saft
M. Budjevac
M. D. Costa
M. D. Gill
M. D. Harmon
M. E. Glasgow
M. Garces
M. K. Marinac
M. Salvatore
M. V. Haddad
M.A. Heusel
Michael D. Costa
Mike Costa
O. A. Willson
O. L. Walter
O. M. Hauge
orlando
P. B. Messina
P. F. McCauley
P. G. Abdalla
P. J. Murphy
P. J. Murry
P. L. McGaha
P. Rozelle
P. S. Ziemann
Paul Porter
R. B. Bienkowski
R. B. Carpenter
R. B. Countess
R. B. Williamson
R. Bober
R. C. Gaskins
R. C. Kimber
R. D. Howard
R. D. Schulte
R. Dunderdale
R. E. Cannistraro
R. E. Nowak
R. F. Huff
R. F. Weddleton
R. G. Rapagnani
R. G. Thompson
R. J. Conney
R. J. Fahrer
R. J. Gross
R. J. Grutz
R. J. Hillen
R. J. Murphy
R. J. Prady
R. J. Rahenkamp
R. Koubek
R. L. Brooks
R. L. Misback
R. L. Perez
R. M Bredin
R. M. Muraski
R. P. Duverneau
R. R. Halverson
R. R. Leyendecker
R. Steiner
R. T. Greenwood
R. T. Ward
R. W. Ek
R. W. Herbert
R. W. Woodward
Rod Herbert
S. D. Grisetti
S. J. Piermont
S. L. Jones
S. L. Quick
S. M. Garvey
Steam Turbine Generator Division
STGD
T. Battieneri
T. Burke
T. E. Szabo
T. J. Kuchma
T. J. Lane
T. O'Hanlon
T. R. Eves
T. Szabo
The Quadrangle
Tom Kuchma
Tom Sullivan
University Boulevard
V. Duarte
V. N. Fahy
V. Papadopoulos
V. S. Anderson
W. Davis
W. E. Johnson
W. F. Knowles
W. J. Pagonis
W. J. Walker
W. M. Oliver
W. R. Ryan
W. Ruch
W. S. Smith
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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Title
Westinghouse Electric Collection
Alternative Title
Westinghouse Collection
Subject
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Description
Originally called the Westinghouse Electric Company, George Westinghouse (1846-1914) founded his manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1886. In 1889, he renamed his business the The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Westinghouse's primary products include turbines, generators, motors and switchgear related to the generation, transmission, and use of electricity. The company changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. In 1981, the company began to relocate its divison headquarters for the Steam-Turbine Generator Divisions from Pennsylvania (turbines from Lester and generators from Pittsburgh) to Orlando, Florida. The Power Generation Business Unit (PGBU) building was located in The Quadrangle, at 4400 Alafaya Trail. Originally, Westinghouse had purchased a large plot of land for future development that extended westward from Alafaya Trail to Rouse Road. The original headquarters was located on several acres of that land parcel close to Alafaya Trail.<br /><br />In 1994, after a major corporate management shuffling, and a top-level decision to change from an industrial manufacturing company to primarily a broadcasting/communications company, Westinghouse bought the CBS Network and changed its name to the CBS Corporation. As the PGBU grew in size, other buildings in the area were leased and then, after PGBU was sold to Siemens Corporation of Germany in 1998, additional buildings (Quad II and Quad III) were added to the original complex at the Quadrangle. From 1998 to 2003 the Orlando operation was known as Siemens-Westinghouse, after which the name of Westinghouse was dropped. The operation has been known as Siemens from that time forward.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Orlando, Florida
Curator
DeRosa, Peter
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
8-page magazine article
Dublin Core
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Title
Westinghouse W-501D 100 MW Single Shaft Heavy Duty Combustion Turbine
Description
In 1980, Westinghouse Electric introduced a redesigned and uprated model W501D combustion (gas) turbine nominally rated at 100MW. This document is a reprint of an article published in the <em>International Power Generation</em> magazine in the United Kingdom in time for distribution at the 1981 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Gas Turbine Conference and Expo in London. The W501D introduced at that time was later called the W501D5 and, after initial sales and field testing, was offered at a rating of approximately 105MW.<br /><br />The article describes the many new design features that represented significant upgrades and improvements over the previous version of the W501D. It also describes the various applications of the gas turbine including simple cycle "EconoPac," combined cycle and operation with alternative fuels such as gasified coal. The W501D5 was the largest and most efficient heavy duty 60Hz (3600RPM) gas turbine in the world at the time.
Date Created
ca. 1980-10
Coverage
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, The Quadrangle, Orlando, Florida
Creator
Scalzo, A. J.
Howard, G. S.
Holden, P. C.
Morrash, J.
Source
Reprinted magazine article: Scalzo, A. J., G. S. Howard, P.C. Holden, and J. Morrash. "Westinghouse W-501D 100 MW Single Shaft Heavy Duty Combustion Turbine." <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44871430" target="_blank"><em>International Power Generation</em></a>, October 1980: Private Collection of Harry Jaeger.
Source Repository
Private Collection of Harry Jaeger
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource his held by the <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44871430" target="_blank"><em>International Power Generation</em></a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
Alternative Title
Westinghouse W-501D Combustion Turbine
Subject
Orlando (Fla.)
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Turbines
Publisher
<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44871430" target="_blank"><em>International Power Generation</em></a>
Date Copyrighted
1980-10
Date Issued
1980-10
Contributor
Jaeger, Harry
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of reprinted magazine article: Scalzo, A. J., G. S. Howard, P.C. Holden, and J. Morrash. "Westinghouse W-501D 100 MW Single Shaft Heavy Duty Combustion Turbine." <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44871430" target="_blank"><em>International Power Generation</em></a>, October 1980.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/169" target="_blank">Westinghouse Electric Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Format
application/pdf
Extent
1.78 MB
Medium
8-page magazine article
Language
eng
Type
Text
Accrual Method
Donation
Mediator
History Teacher
Science Teacher
Provenance
Originally published by the <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44871430" target="_blank"><em>International Power Generation</em></a>.
Curator
Jaeger, Harry
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
A. J. Scalzo
Alafaya Trail
combined cycle installation
combustion
combustion turbines
combustors
compressor cylinders
CURVIC
ECONOPAC
EconPac
engines
G. S. Howard
gas turbines
hydrogen-cooled generators
International Power Generation
J. Morrash
orlando
P. C. Holden
PACE
rotor blades
rotors
The Quadrangle
W-301
W-501
W-501A
W-501AA
W-501B
W-501D
W501D5
Westinghouse Combustion Turbine Systems Division
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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Title
Westinghouse Electric Collection
Alternative Title
Westinghouse Collection
Subject
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Description
Originally called the Westinghouse Electric Company, George Westinghouse (1846-1914) founded his manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1886. In 1889, he renamed his business the The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Westinghouse's primary products include turbines, generators, motors and switchgear related to the generation, transmission, and use of electricity. The company changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. In 1981, the company began to relocate its divison headquarters for the Steam-Turbine Generator Divisions from Pennsylvania (turbines from Lester and generators from Pittsburgh) to Orlando, Florida. The Power Generation Business Unit (PGBU) building was located in The Quadrangle, at 4400 Alafaya Trail. Originally, Westinghouse had purchased a large plot of land for future development that extended westward from Alafaya Trail to Rouse Road. The original headquarters was located on several acres of that land parcel close to Alafaya Trail.<br /><br />In 1994, after a major corporate management shuffling, and a top-level decision to change from an industrial manufacturing company to primarily a broadcasting/communications company, Westinghouse bought the CBS Network and changed its name to the CBS Corporation. As the PGBU grew in size, other buildings in the area were leased and then, after PGBU was sold to Siemens Corporation of Germany in 1998, additional buildings (Quad II and Quad III) were added to the original complex at the Quadrangle. From 1998 to 2003 the Orlando operation was known as Siemens-Westinghouse, after which the name of Westinghouse was dropped. The operation has been known as Siemens from that time forward.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Orlando, Florida
Curator
DeRosa, Peter
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
Document
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Original Format
4-page article
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Title
The Generation Gap, Special Edition
Description
An article published in <em>The Generation Gap</em>, Westinghouse Electric Corporation's newsletter, regarding the relocation of the company's Steam Turbine-Generator Division (STGD) from Lester and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Orlando, Florida, starting in 1982. A new headquarters building was being constructed at The Quadrangle, at the corner of Alafaya Trail and University Boulevard. Temporary office space was located in a renovated shopping center on East Colonial Drive. Shown in photographs on the second page are executives uncovering the cornerstone of the new building (dated February of 1982), but the building was not ready to have it installed as yet.<br /><br />Originally called the Westinghouse Electric Company, George Westinghouse (1846-1914) founded his manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1886. In 1889, he renamed his business the The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Westinghouse's primary products include turbines, generators, motors and switchgear related to the generation, transmission, and use of electricity. The company changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. The company relocated its Steam Turbine Generator Divisions from Pennsylvania (turbines from Lester and generators from Pittsburgh) to Orlando, Florida, beginning in 1981. The Power Generation Business Unit (PGBU) building was located in The Quadrangle, at 4400 Alafaya Trail. Originally, Westinghouse had purchased a large plot of land for future development that extended westward from Alafaya Trail to Rouse Road. The original headquarters was located on several acres of that land parcel close to Alafaya Trail. As the PGBU grew in size, other buildings were rented and then, after PGBU was sold to Siemens Corporation, additional buildings were added to the complex. In 1994, after a major management shuffling and commitment to change from an industrial manufacturing company to primarily a broadcasting/communications company, Westinghouse bought CBS network. It then changed its name to the CBS Corporation.
Date Created
ca. 1982-03
Coverage
Westinghouse Power Generation Business Unit, Orlando, Florida
Creator
Westinghouse Communications Department (for Power Generation Marketing Dept.)
Source
Original 4-page article: <em>The Generation Gap</em>, Spring 1982: Private Collection of Harry Jaeger.
Source Repository
Private Collection of Harry Jaeger
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <em>The Generation Gap</em> and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
Alternative Title
Generation Gap
Subject
Orlando (Fla.)
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Publisher
<em>The Generation Gap</em>
Date Copyrighted
ca. 1982-03
Date Issued
ca. 1982-03
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 4-page article: <em>The Generation Gap</em>, Spring 1982.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/169" target="_blank">Westinghouse Electric Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
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application/pdf
Extent
837 KB
Medium
4-page article
Language
eng
Type
Text
Accrual Method
Donation
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Provenance
Originally published by <em>The Generation Gap</em>.
Curator
Jaeger, Harry
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Alafaya Trail
construction
East Colonial Drive
engineering
generators
heat transfer
Ken Oleson
Lester, Pennsylvania
mechanics
metallurgy
orlando
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
relocation
Stan Quick
Steam Turbine-Generator Division
steam turbines
STGD
The Generation Gap
UCF
University of Central Florida
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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Title
Oviedo Collection
Alternative Title
Oviedo Collection
Subject
Oviedo (Fla.)
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the history of Oviedo, Florida. Series descriptions are based on special topics, the majority of which students focused their metadata entries around.
Oviedo began on the south shore of Lake Jessup as a settlement called Solaria's Wharf. Some of its early settlers include Dr. Henry Foster, Joseph Watts, and Steen Nelson. Citrus and celery dominated the area's farmland, although Central Florida suffered a severe freeze in 1894. Oviedo suffered another disaster in 1914 when a fire wiped out much of the downtown section. Disaster hit again in 1929 with the Wall Street Crash and the beginning of the Great Depression. That same year, Oviedo's fruit crops were decimated by a fruit fly infestation. Another fire destroyed the Wheeler Fertilizer Plant in 1946. Nonetheless, Oviedo continued to grow, with new paved roads going to Geneva and Chuluota and the opening of the Citizens Bank of Oviedo in 1948. In 1949, Oviedo began receing once-a-day bus serviece to Orlando from Greyhound Lines. By 1950, Oviedo was the second largest town in Seminole County, following Sanford. The Oviedo City Hall was built that same year and in 1968, Florida Technological University (present-day University of Central Florida) opened, bringing new residents to the area.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/2494" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/2494.
Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012.
Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1979.
"<a href="http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68" target="_blank">History</a>." City of Oviedo, Florida. http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68.
"Oviedo Began as Solaria's Wharf." <em>The Oviedo Heritage</em>, June 30, 1977.
Contributor
Cepero, Laura Lynn
Cepero, Nancy Lynn
Cepero, Ray
Coverage
Oviedo, Florida
Has Part
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/147" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society Collection</a>, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
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Title
Oral Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler III
Alternative Title
Oral History, Benjamin Franklin Wheeler III
Subject
Oviedo (Fla.)
Citrus--Florida
Citrus fruit industry--Florida
Packing-houses--United States
Agriculture--Florida
Celery
Description
An oral history interview of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler III, a descendant of the Wheeler and Lawton families in Oviedo. The interview was conducted by Desta Lee Horner at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, on June 18th, 2019. Some of the topics covered include the family history of the Lawtons and Wheelers, the significance of the pine timber industry in Oviedo, the career path of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr., the role of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr. in the incorporation and development of Oviedo, withstanding freezes and destruction of crops and trees, shipping citrus on the railroads and the decline of the citrus industry in Oviedo, working in packing houses, varieties of citrus production in Oviedo, transitioning from citrus to celery production, how packing houses served a social function, building a railroad on muck land and dealing with derailed trains, how Seminole County was formed and the consequences of its formation, George Kelsey and enforcing the law in a small town, eccentric characters and interesting stories from Oviedo, how churches influenced life in Oviedo, how the Oviedo lights became an urban legend, how being a bedroom community shaped the City of Oviedo, how the Oviedo Fire Department evolved, his experience with race relations in Oviedo, how Alafaya Trail became a paved road, deciding on where to build Florida Technological University, and his closing remarks.
Table Of Contents
0:00:00 The family history of the Lawtons and Wheelers <br />0:02:58 The significance of the pine timber industry in Oviedo <br />0:03:38 The career path of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr. <br />0:07:30 The role of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr. in the incorporation and development of Oviedo <br />0:09:32 Withstanding freezes and destruction of crops and trees <br />0:10:24 Shipping citrus on the railroads and the decline of the citrus industry in Oviedo <br />0:14:30 Working in packing houses <br />0:16:35 Varieties of citrus production in Oviedo <br />0:18:11 Transitioning from citrus to celery production <br />0:25:25 How packing houses served a social function <br />0:26:35 Building a railroad on muck land and dealing with derailed trains <br />0:30:51 How Seminole County was formed and the consequences of its formation <br />0:39:08 George Kelsey and enforcing the law in a small town <br />0:40:41 Eccentric characters and interesting stories from Oviedo <br />0:43:32 How churches influenced life in Oviedo <br />0:45:17 How the Oviedo lights became an urban legend <br />0:47:10 How being a bedroom community shaped the City of Oviedo <br />0:48:29 How the Oviedo Fire Department evolved <br />0:50:46 How being a bedroom community shaped the City of Oviedo (continued) <br />0:53:14 His experience with race relations in Oviedo <br />0:57:25 How Alafaya Trail became a paved road <br />0:59:19 Deciding on where to build Florida Technological University <br />1:01:28 Closing remarks
Abstract
Oral history interview of Benjamin Franklin Wheeler III. Interview conducted by Desta Lee Horner in Orlando, Florida, on June 18, 2019.
Type
Moving Image
Source
Wheeler III, Benjamin Franklin. Interviewed by Desta Lee Horner, June 18, 2019. Audio record available. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>, Orlando, Florida.
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Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/collections/show/128" target="_blank">Oviedo Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES.
Has Format
Digital transcript of original 1-hour, 3-minute, and 31-seconds oral history: Wheeler III, Benjamin Franklin. Interviewed by Desta Lee Horner. Audio record available. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>, Orlando, Florida.
Coverage
Five Points Operations Complex, Sanford, Florida
Florida Technological University, Orlando, Florida
Holler Chevrolet, Winter Park, Florida
Memorial Building, Oviedo, Florida
Nelson and Company Packing Plant, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo Depot, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo Drug and Meat World, Oviedo, Florida
Creator
Wheeler, Benjamin Franklin III
Horner, Desta
Publisher
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>
Date Created
2019-06-18
Date Copyrighted
2019-06-18
Format
video/mp4
application/pdf
Extent
1.83 GB
281 KB
Medium
1-hour, 3-minute, and 31-seconds audio recording
31-page digital transcript
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Benjamin Franklin Wheeler III and Desta Lee Horner and published by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>.
Rights Holder
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>
Accrual Method
Item Creation
Curator
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
Robison, Jim. "<a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1991-01-27-9101260420-story.html" target="_blank">War Forced Lawtons to Leave Georgia Children's Families Played Big Role in Building Town</a>." <em>Orlando Sentinel</em>, January 27, 1991. Accessed July 23, 2019. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1991-01-27-9101260420-story.html.
"<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>." Oviedo Historical Society, Inc. http://oviedohs.com/.
Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/oviedo-biography-of-a-town/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979.
Robison, Jim. <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/collections/show/147" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012.
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Transcript
Horner
My name is Desta Horner from the Oviedo Historical Society and I’m here with Ben Wheeler, whose family had been residents in Oviedo for many generations. We’re gonna talk about the history of Oviedo. This interview is being conducted at the University of Central Florida in collaboration with the RICHES program.
Ben Wheeler’s been around a long time. Tell me something about you and your family.
Wheeler
Well, my earliest ancestor t—to come here was a Civil War widow named Narcissa Melissa Lawton . She had several children, one of which married my great-grandfather, John Thomas Wheeler. Um, they moved to Dade City and he had a stroke. He was a sawmill man. And he had a stroke and died. So R. W. Lawton, who would have been Narcissa’s brother, sent one of the Aulins—I think it was Theodore —to Dade City with a two-wheel oxcart. And loaded them up, whatever little bit they had, which probably wasn’t much, and brought ‘em back to Oviedo [sniffs].
Horner
Who married Wheeler in order to get the Wheeler in your name? One of the Lawtons married a Wheeler?
Wheeler
Yes. Clara Isabelle Lawton married John Thomas . Um, she was—no. She wasn’t a widow. Narcissa was a widow.
Horner
Mhmm.
Wheeler
And this was her daughter.
Horner
So she married a Wheeler.
Wheeler
Yes.
Horner
And that—was that Ben Wheeler I? The Ben Wheeler?
Wheeler
His name was Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr.
Horner
How many more Benjamin Franklin Wheelers are there?
Wheeler
Two more.
Horner
Two [laughs].
Wheeler
My father and me.
Horner
Oh. Okay. So the, uh—so the Whee—how did the Wheelers get here? I mean, the Lawtons got here after the Civil War. Where did B.F. Wheeler, Sr. come from?
Wheeler
W—w—well, John Thomas, who was B.F., Sr.’s father,…
Horner
Ah.
Wheeler
…came here after the Civil War. And he claimed a homestead and sawed all the timber off of it. And once the timber was gone, he let it grow back. And that’s when he moved to Dade City[, Florida].
Horner
Well, the timber was always a big—particularly pine timber…
Wheeler
Mhmm.
Horner
…was always important in Oviedo. What did they do with the pine—with the pine? Cut it up? Saw it up? What do you do?
Wheeler
It was used mostly for lumber. The first thing they did was chip it for turpentine. And once the trees had g—given up all their turpentine, then they would cut ‘em and make lumber out of ‘em.
Horner
Were there a lot of sawmills? I read one place where there were five sawmills in the area. I…
Wheeler
I couldn’t swear to the number, but there were several.
Horner
In order to slice those into planks for…
Wheeler
Right.
Horner
…houses.
Wheeler
Mhmm.
Horner
Kay. Well, Wheeler set up a business. Who did he set up a business with? What—what business did he get into?
Wheeler
Well, his father died when he was 11. And he had a younger brother and a mother to support. And R.W. Lawton brought him back here. And he just took any kind of work he could get [clears throat]. One of the things he said he did was hoe orange trees. There was a big grove out there where Winter Springs High School is now. And he said he would walk out there, hoe trees all day and walk back for a penny a piece.
And there was a—the Coast Line—the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad had a—a depot agent here named Mr. Crutchfield. And he and my grandad took a shine to each other. And he let him hang around the depot. And he taught him Morse code. Let him help sweeping[sic] and whatever needed to be doing[sic]. And my grandfather ended up being the depot agent when Mr. Crutchfield retired.
Well, as depot agent, he made a princely sum of $15 a month, which r—really—a lot of people couldn’t even get a job. But he got that. And that’s when he endeavored to buy the property on—south of Lake Jesup, where the big brick house is.
Horner
Where the Evans-Wheeler house …
Wheeler
Right. And he obliged to pay $5 a month on a mortgage. Well, he said there were a half a dozen old tangerine trees on the place. And started taking care of ‘em. And about the second year he was attending to ‘em, they yielded six boxes—which, a box is two bushels—of tangerines. And he took ‘em down to Nelson Brothers Packing House and sold ‘em and got $5 a box for ‘em. Now, that’s like six months’ worth of mortgage payments. And he said that got his attention. And as time went by, um, Mr. Fred Nelson wanted to get out. And so, my grandfather bought his portion of Nelson Brothers. And later, Mr. Steen Nelson wanted to get out. So he bought his portion and then he named it Nelson and Company.
Horner
But, actually, it was Wheeler who owned it. Why didn’t he change the name to Wheeler?
Wheeler
Because the brands they had were already established. And he didn’t want to start over.
Horner
So everybody up North that this was—the fruit was shipped to…
Wheeler
Right.
Horner
…knew that name: Nelson.
Wheeler
The brand name was White Rose.
Horner
When there was a White Rose label…
Wheeler
Mhmm.
Horner
…you knew it came from a good place [laughs]. W—well, what business did your—your grandfather get into if he owned a—the citrus packing house, Nelson and Son—and Company? What else did he do?
Wheeler
He was a real forward-thinking man. And he saw opportunity where a lot of people didn’t. He, um—he was instrumental in getting Oviedo incorporated as a city. It was one square mile.
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
But the relations with Sanford as the county seat were such that he didn’t foresee Oviedo getting a fair shake out of the county. And so, he got it—got Oviedo incorporated.
He was also on the county commission. He, um, was the driving force behind the county buying what’s now called the—well, what is it called? The Five Points Complex ? Eh, the original purpose of it was to have, um, indigent home and, um, pauper’s cemetery. That grew into being an old folks home. And they grazed—they raised all their own food.
And then years later, the—the county began moving their facilities out there. Their fire department and courthouse and jail and animal control.
Horner
And sitting in the middle of all of that official administration is still what was the old folks home.
Wheeler
Yes.
Horner
It’s still there.
Wheeler
Yes.
Horner
It’s never demolished.
Wheeler
It’s now part of—it’s now the home of the Museum of Seminole County History.
Horner
One of the things about the citrus industry in Oviedo was the freezes that would happen regularly. How did people withstand the destroyed[sic] of—of their crop? And sometimes even destruction of their trees?
Wheeler
Well, all of ‘em didn’t stand it. Um, there was a disastrous freeze in 1890-f—December of ’94 and February of ’95. And i—it was—it was destructive enough that a lot of people just gave up and moved. Uh, there are stories about houses with dishes still on the table and food in ‘em. And th—they were just left. People just le—just lost heart and left.
B—but the—the few that remained eventually did come back. Uh, my grandfather being one. Mr. Lee—C. S. Lee being another one. And there’s probably some names that I don’t recall now.
Horner
What about the Clonts’s? Were they doing c—uh, cel—um, citrus at that time?
Wheeler
No. The Clonts’s came in 1924.
Horner
Mkay. Mm. Well, when you have this packing—and Wheeler—I mean Nelson and Company packed fruit…
Wheeler
Mhmm.
Horner
…in these crates to send north. Um, how could you send them north? On the steamboats that originally plied the s—Lake Jesup? Or how did they get them up north to New York?
Wheeler
I’m sure at some point they shipped ‘em on a steamboat. But my recollection is the railroads.
Horner
And which railroads did…
Wheeler
Well, there were two that came to—to Lake Charm. That was the Atlantic Coast Line and there was the Seaboard Air Line. And they both had s—spurs that went down into Black Hammock to the celery pre-coolers and washhouses. At one time, there was[sic] two trains a day—one on each railroad out of Oviedo—of nothing but produce [sneezes]. Excuse me.
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
There’s a lot of, uh, confusion about the two railroads because they later merged and became Seaboard Coast Line. And then they was[sic] incorporated into the family lines. And then it was Seaboard’s system. And then it became CSX [Corporation], which is what it is now.
Horner
When did those trains stop running through Oviedo? ‘Cause there’s no trains there now.
Wheeler
I’d say in the early eighties.
Horner
Why didn’t we need the trains anymore?
Wheeler
Well, all the produce traffic had gone to trucks. The—the railroads were so contrary about the service that people got tired of it. And, uh, at that time [sniffs], the Northern railroads—the Pennsylvania, the B&O —those lines were having terrific union problems. And our stuff would get to Washington, D.C. and sit.
Horner
So Oviedo was in trouble. They couldn’t get it to market.
Wheeler
Right. Right.
Horner
Well, there was another train in Oviedo. The Dinky Line.
Wheeler
That was the Seaboard.
Horner
Was part of the Seaboard.
Wheeler
Yes.
Horner
Mm.
Wheeler
It had previously been the Florida Central and Peninsular [Railroad] [sniffs]. And the tracks were so raggedy that they were forever and a day getting derailed.
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
And the local folks nicknamed it “The Friends Come and Push” [laughs].
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
But a lot of people think the whole system was the Dinky Line and it was not [sniffs].
Horner Just the part that ran from Oviedo to Orlando.
Wheeler
Right.
Horner
Okay. How long did the Dinky Line last? That’s not…
Wheeler
Well, it became part of the…
Horner
Ah.
Wheeler
…CSX. And so they all came up about the same time.
Horner
Okay. Why did our—we don’t do and sell and pack citrus anymore in Oviedo. And it was the big moneymaker. What happened?
Wheeler
Because of the freezes and the greening virus [sniffs].
Horner
Shut down the whole citrus…
Wheeler
Shut…
Horner
…part.
Wheeler
… down the whole thing. Statewide production is down 75% now.
Horner
Um, you were talking about—the trains would go to the packing houses. What—how were the packing houses run? Who did the—you just bring it in from the fields and what do you do with it?
Wheeler
Bring the fruit it from the field?
Horner
Mhmm.
Wheeler
Yeah.
Horner
Just pluck it off the tree?
Wheeler
And picked and—and put in boxes. Those two bushel boxes. Brought to the packing house. And then it was graded. And washed. And cleaned. And packed by size into shipping containers. And those went on the railroad.
Horner
Just loaded them up on the railroad.
Wheeler
Mhmm.
Horner
But it—yeah. I heard about that. Putting them in by size.
Wheeler
Mhmm.
Horner
If it was a bunch of tangerines, you could fit 120.
Wheeler
So many. Depending on the size. Um, and that was determined by the USDA .
Horner
Mm.
Wheeler
You had to have an inspector all—all the time. And the sizes were [sniffs]—on tangerines they were 80s, 120s, 176s, 210 and 246.
Horner
Wow. They must have been small tangerines.
Wheeler
They were. They were little bitty fellas.
Horner
[laughs]. What if you had a grapefruit?
Wheeler
Now, we didn’t pack many grapefruit. I’m not real up on the s—sizes on them. I know there was a 40. And a 48. I think the other one was 72.
Horner
[Inaudible]—those are the small grapefruit. Get 72.
Wheeler
Oranges—round oranges were 80s, 100s, 120s, um…
Horner
Did that mean that we had different varieties of oranges?
Wheeler
Oh, yeah.
Horner
We do.
Wheeler
Sure.
Horner
What varieties did we make—did we s—grow?
Wheeler
Well, we had tangerines. Dancy tangerines. Later, they developed the Orlando tangelo. And we had a world of them. And then, there was the early oranges like the Hamlin. And the pineapple. And the Parson Brown. And the Valencia. But they all come off at different times [sniffs].
Horner
Well, that’s nice. You don’t have to pack ‘em all at one…
Wheeler
No.
Horner
…time.
Wheeler
No. You can’t pack ‘em all at once.
Horner
[laughs]. Who did the work? Who w—who worked in the packing house? Who picked the—the fruit?
Wheeler
Well, you had picking crews. And you’d have a foreman. And he’d go out and recruit help to pick the fruit. And then, the packing house had their own crew that packed. And graded. And put crates together. And everything that it takes to run a packing house [sniffs].
Horner
Did they live in Oviedo?
Wheeler
Everybody did. Oviedo was never—until this latter day—a bedroom community. If you l—if you lived in Oviedo it was because you worked in Oviedo [sniffs].
Horner
Something to do with agriculture.
Wheeler
Unless you were a merchant or a preacher. Or something like that. Yes.
Horner
Um, but by the mid—beginning of the twentieth century, there was a shift from citrus to celery. Who brought celery to Oviedo? And why was Oviedo such a good place to grow celery?
Wheeler
Well, the first place it came to was Sanford. And at that time, they di—they thought that you couldn’t grow celery on muck. It had to be grown on sand, which that side of Lake Monroe there where Sanford is was ideally suited to that. And then the King Brothers decided they were gonna try it in Oviedo. And we had some sand land, but we had more muck than we did sand. And so when they found out they could grow it on the muck, then—it expanded rapidly then.
And celery was high dollar crop. Number one: it was considered kind of exotic [sniffs]. And number two: once the [Great] Depression hit, there was a tremendous dis—demand for celery because they used it in soup kitchens. It was, you know—it’ll stretch anything that you put it with [sniffs].
Then, about the time the Depression was over, World War II came along. And for reasons that I never understood, celery was not considered, um, necessary for the war effort. And so they didn’t impose any price ceilings on it. And the price of celery just went through the roof during those war years. And people made money just like going to town on a Saturday. Um, in 1929, Seminole County’s celery crop was worth about $15 million. Just the celery crop.
Horner
Well, I’d heard we’d been called the C—Celery Capital of the World for—[laughs].
Wheeler
Well, we were. They didn’t—there was no, uh, Zellwood. There was no everglades. The celery came from Seminole County.
Horner
Well, when you’re growing celery—it sounds like celery is a rather delicate…
Wheeler
It is.
Horner
…crop to grow.
Wheeler
And it takes a lot of water to grow it. And we had ample water supplies. We had the flowing wells, uh, to keep the fields wet. And it did well here.
Horner
And there were plenty of celery fields around Oviedo.
Wheeler
Oh, yeah.
Horner
[laughs]. Well, when you, uh—when you laid—put the celery out—I’ve heard that you have to put the celery out first in small plots. Then you pick ‘em up and replant them.
Wheeler
Yes. You plant seed beds and raise the plants up until they’re big enough to set out. And then you transplant ‘em to a—to the field.
Horner
And let ‘em grow.
Wheeler
Mhmm.
Horner
Well, how did they get enough water to handle?
Wheeler
They developed a system of subsurface irrigation, which simply put was r—r—rows of tile under the ground. And the tile was not cemented together. It was just joint to joint. And you’d turn those wells on. And anywhere that there was a joint, water would seep out.
Horner
Sort of like a drip line…
Wheeler
Yeah.
Horner
…only large and…
Wheeler
Mhmm.
Horner
underground.
Wheeler
And you could raise and lower the water level by, um, a system of stops. At the end of each row you had a—a concrete pocket and holes every so often. And however high you wanted the water to go, you stopped off the holes. And, of course, it would seek its own level.
Horner
Um, [inaudible]. [laughs]. Well, once your celery is grown in this muck land and you decide to harvest it, then what do you do with it?
Wheeler
You harvest it.
Horner
[laughs]. Yep. You’re gonna harvest it. What—but you gotta get it up north. How you gonna do it?
Wheeler
Well, [clears throat]…
Horner
Get to market [laughs].
Wheeler
…for many years, it was cut by hand, uh, and put in boxes. And then it went to this celery washhouse, where it was washed and packed. And, again, there were sizes for it. And then they would put it through a precooler bath to get it cold. And pack it into boxcars [sniffs]. And those boxcars had bunkers. One at each end. And they’d load it down with ice. And then they had a chipper there. And they would blow chipped ice all, eh—all over the top of the celery. They didn’t—they didn’t—a car wouldn’t hold it to the ceiling. There was about three feet from the top tier to the ceiling. And they’d blow that full of that chipped ice. And the cars had fans on ‘em that ran by a belt drive. And that circulated the cool and kept ‘em cool until they could get where they were going [sniffs].
Horner
So the celery was crisp when it got there.
Wheeler
Yeah. It had to be.
Horner
Otherwise, it would be all wilted. If you take it out of the field and you stuff it in a crate and haul it north, it’s gonna be all wilted [inaudible].
Wheeler
Oh, no. No. They didn’t do that.
Horner
[laughs]. You mentioned that there was a, um—a celery packing house out at Lake Charm. And then there was another celery packing house in Oviedo.
Wheeler
Mhmm.
Horner
So you had two of them operating at the same time. Is that because there was so much celery?
Wheeler
Yeah. And there was[sic] more than two. Um, there were at least two more in Black Hammock. I’m not sure exactly—there might have been three. But, yes. There was a—well, how many pre-coolers would it take to make a trainload of celery [inaudible] every day?
Horner
I don’t know.
Wheeler
Well…
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
…just imagine.
Horner
How many cars would there be in a train? I mean, do they haul a hundred cars? Or…
Wheeler
It’d depend on the time of the year. But the trains weren’t near as big as they are now. There’d probably be ten or twelve.
Horner
Y—you told me that you used to go over to the packing house yourself when you were a young man.
Wheeler
Yeah.
Horner
What did it—what was it like? And what were the trains like?
Wheeler
Well, the packing house was just about the nerve center of town. If you were looking for somebody, you’d meet ‘em at the packing house. ‘Cause there was always somebody there. And we didn’t have, you know, City Hall and police department. And fire department. And Town House Restaurant. And all of that. You went to the packing house. You’d buy you a soda and sit down and sit down there with a package of Lance crackers and wait for ‘em to come if they wasn’t[sic] already there.
Horner
[laughs]. And the—and so they’d come and load the train. The packers would load the train. Everybody else is sort of sitting and, uh—or—and coming and going. And socializing.
Wheeler
But it was the same when the packing house wasn’t running. It was a meeting place.
Horner
Ah. Well, what about the trains themselves? Were they modern and useful?
Wheeler
Well, they weren’t modern like what we have now. Um, like I said, they had fans and belt drives for refrigeration [sniffs]. The…
Horner
You—you told me that the—the trains were—uh, the t—the tracks on the trains weren’t that good.
Wheeler
They weren’t. One of the big obstacles to settling this area was, um, wet, low ground. And the tracks—if you see the route of either one of those railroads, they snake like this. Because they go from one high spot to the next to stay out of that muck. And they put the ties down on the bare sand. They didn’t have any ballast or anything. And, uh, the rail was light [sniffs]. So the trains were slow. They did often times get off the ground—get on the ground. But that’s all there was.
Horner
Well, when the trains would get on the ground or derail like that, what do you do? I mean, everything stops [laughs]?
Wheeler
Until they get it back on the rail. Back then, they didn’t have cranes. And, uh, that’s—railroad had some wreckers, but they were too heavy to come out there on that light track. So it was a matter of a gang of big, strong men. And jacks. And wooden blocks to jack that wheel up. And then the locomotive would pull it just enough to get it guided back over on the track [sniffs].
Horner
So the boxcars had to be lifted up, so to speak.
Wheeler
Yeah.
Horner
And then placed back on the track.
Wheeler
Yeah. And oftentimes there would be, um, places that were missing spikes and things like that. They’d have to nail it back down so it wouldn’t roll again. It wasn’t—it was a case of the rails rolling over—is what derailed ‘em.
Horner
No wonder the trains stopped coming [laughs].
Wheeler
Well, that’s a—that is an ironic story. From the time the rails were laid in the 1880s until about 1980, those rails were the same rails that they put down originally. And rail is measured by the weight of a three-foot section. And those light rails were—some of ‘em were sixty pounds and some of ‘em were seventy pounds for three feet. And after all that time, they decided to re-lay the rails. And they put hundred-pound rail all the way from Sanford to Oviedo.
Now, the Seaboard had done theirs earlier. But this was the—the Atlantic Coast Line. And we found out later the government gave ‘em a grant to upgrade this line. And then like two or three years later, they got approval to abandon it. And they took all that up. And took it and moved it. Used it somewhere else [laughs].
Horner
[laughs]. So the whole tra—the whole tra—rail line from Oviedo to Sanford…
Wheeler
Yeah.
Horner
…was torn up.
Wheeler
Yeah.
Horner
[inaudible]. Um, when we talk about Oviedo and we talk about Seminole County, neither of them used to exist. You were mentioning, uh, that your—was it your grandfather who helped get Oviedo…
Wheeler
Mhmm.
Horner
…incorporated as a town?
Wheeler
Mhmm.
Horner
Where did Seminole County come from? ‘Cause it wasn’t originally Seminole County.
Wheeler
Well, you have to understand that because of the citrus and the celery and the other farming, Sanford swung a pretty big stick at that time. And they had tried [clears throat] two different times with a referendum to move the county seat from Orlando to Sanford. And failed. And Sanford—the people in Sanford thought that world emanated from Sanford. They were conceited and, um—I don’t know what else to call it. They…
Horner
Arro…
Wheeler
…thought…
Horner
… —arrogant.
Wheeler
They thought—yeah. Arrogant. And Sanford was supposed to be it. And it was it, as long as the things were coming by the steamboat. ‘Cause that was as far as they could come. But when the railroads came, that changed. And then along came Colonel Henry Sanford . And he was determined he was gonna make Sanford something.
And in 18—about 1875, there was an infamous murder trial in Orange County that was coming up between the carpet baggers and the locals. The carpet baggers had imposed a head tax on cattle. And this is right after the Civil War, now. And [clears throat], of course, a carpet bagger was in power. They had—they were the sheriff and done all of that. And he sent out some men to the outlying areas to collect that cattle tax. Well, they took the sheriff, tied him to an old bottom plow and dropped him in Lake, uh, Kissimmee.
Horner
So the sheriff’s now dead [inaudible].
Wheeler
Sheriff’s dead. And there’s this murder trial coming up of who supposedly did that. And all of a sudden, the courthouse burned down.
Horner
Now is this the courthouse in Sanford or the courthouse in…
Wheeler
No. It was…
Horner
…Orlando?
Wheeler
…Orlando. There was no courthouse in Sanford.
Horner
Oh. But now it’s burned down.
Wheeler
And it burned down on the eve of this trial. Well, whatever evidence they had, of course, was gone with it.
So the question arose as to building a new courthouse. And Henry Sanford went to Orlando to the Board of County Commissioners and proposed that, uh, the courthouse be built in Sanford, inferring that that’s where it should have been all the time. And he would give the land for the courthouse. Provided, of course, it was built in Sanford. Well, Mr. Jacob Summerlin , who was a leading citizen there, stood up and said, “Well, people are used to doing business in Orlando. And I think they ought to continue to do business in Orlando. And I’m gonna loan the county $10,000 to build a courthouse. And they can pay me back or not.” Well, of course, that dashed the hopes of—who wouldn’t turn—who wouldn’t, in that day and time, turn down that kind of money for a courthouse?
Well, that was the second time—no. That was the third time they had been thwarted. There were two referendums before that that didn’t garner enough support. So the courthouse was built in Orlando. And, not to be outdone, they formed—Sanford formed a Divide the County committee. And there were six or eight of the real prominent citizens in Sanford that spearheaded it. And they elected Forrest Lake as the, um, Representative for Orange County.
Horner
To the State Legislature.
Wheeler
To the State Legislature. And in 1913, he had gathered enough support that he put a bill through to create Seminole County. And according to the f—r—record, it passed way in the middle of the night on a—almost the last day of the session.
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
And [clears throat] he rushed it over to the governor for f—signature before anybody could catch on to what was happening. And, uh, that became Seminole County.
Well, Orange County was fit to be tied because it—he was their representative, too. But he didn’t let any of them know [laughs] what he was doing. So that’s how Seminole County got here.
Horner
So we became our own county because we were a piece of Orange [County]. And then we tricked ‘em into letting us have our—into having our own county.
Wheeler
And in the effort to get that done, uh, there was a group of citizens in Oviedo, including a former c—Orange County commissioner, who did not think it was a good idea. And didn’t support it. And when [clears throat] the thing passed, the new commissioner set out to exact retribution from all the outlying areas that didn’t support it.
Horner
Uh, oh.
Wheeler
And…
Horner
[inaudible].
Wheeler
… that’s why we had the kind of roads and schools we had. Because they didn’t get any money.
Horner
So they—they strangled Oviedo…
Wheeler
Yep.
Horner
…in effect…
Wheeler
Yep.
Horner
… from all the county money…
Wheeler
Yep.
Horner
…for improvements.
Wheeler
Oviedo. Chuluota. Geneva.
Horner
They didn’t get any road money.
Wheeler
No.
Horner
No school money.
Wheeler
And that did not change until the Supreme Court got into the segregation issue. And took the funding authority away from the—from the county commission and the school board. And mandated that they had to make a level playing field. And that was in the late sixties.
Horner
Well, Oviedo was a pretty small town well into the seven—the…
Wheeler
Yep.
Horner
… seventies. I mean, 800 people. Maybe 1,000.
Wheeler
Oh.
Horner
Small town.
Wheeler
It was about 2,500.
Horner
By the time we get to late-seventies.
Wheeler
Right. It was one square mile on the map. Um.
Horner
We didn’t even have a police department. Or a fire department.
Wheeler
We had a volunteer fire department. And we had one policeman. And he was also the constable for the unincorporated areas. He was empowered to enforce the law.
Horner
So what we called today a sheriff. He would have been a deputy sheriff for this area.
Wheeler
Probably. Yes.
Horner
But now we don’t use the term co—constable.
Wheeler
No. They’ve outlawed that office.
Horner
Who was the constable? Who was this…
Wheeler
George Kelsey .
Horner
Ah. He’s pretty much of a, uh—a legend in Oviedo.
Wheeler
Yeah. He—he served for a long time. Uh, and he was also the city police.
Horner
And did he do a good job?
Wheeler
He knew what was going on.
Horner
He knew what was happening.
Wheeler
Yeah.
Horner
And everybody’s family. And everybody’s [inaudible]…
Wheeler
Yeah. He had eyes and ears everywhere.
Horner
[laughs]. Um, he was a character. Are there any other important people in Oviedo that ought to be mentioned? Any other eccentric characters?
Wheeler
[sniffs]. Well, there was a few of ‘em that were kind of humorous. But n—none to the extent that George was. Mr. T.L. Lingo had an insurance agency in the back of that, uh, building that they just tore down on Broadway Street. What used to be the drug store. And he would send his bird dog across the street to the post office to get his mail. And they’d tie it up and put it in the dog’s mouth. And he’d bring it back over there to him. And, uh, he’d send a note down to the grocery store in the middle of the block for a pound of steak. Or for hamburger or whatever. And they’d wrap it up and give it to the dog. The dog would bring it right on back there to him.
Horner
Didn’t eat the steak?
Wheeler
No. No.
Horner
Well, you’re a Lawton way back along. What about the Lawton family? You’re related to them. A couple of generations ago.
Wheeler
Yeah. Well, Professor Lawton—T.W. Lawton , for whom the school is named, uh, was the—probably the first person to get a college education in, uh, Oviedo. And he rode the Dinky [Line] back and forth every day to get to school at Rollins [College] [sniffs]. Now, I don’t know whether he bummed or if he bought a ticket but…
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
…that’s how he got there. He became, I think, the second superintendent of schools for the county. And he…
Horner
Yeah. The first elected one. The first one was appointed by the governor…
Wheeler
Right.
Horner
…when we finally became the…
Wheeler
Right.
Horner
…the county. But…
Wheeler
And, uh, he served until about 1953. So it was thirty-some years. When he got ready to retire, somebody figured out that if each child in the county would give a penny, they’d have enough to buy him a new car. And so they all put their pennies in and bought him a brand new Chevrolet sedan when he retired.
Horner
Appreciated gift.
Wheeler
I’m sure.
Horner
Where’d—where did the people in town go to church? ‘Cause I’ve always heard that the churches were very important in Oviedo.
Wheeler
If the churches were behind it, it would happen. Well, [clear throat] there’s two things that a—any little small town has a plethora of. And that’s churches and gas stations. They might not have a grocery store. And they might not have doctor. But they’d have churches and gas stations.
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
There was the First Baptist of Oviedo, the First Methodist of Oviedo [sniffs]. And then there was, um [clears throat], Church of God, um…
Horner
And, of course, the black churches [inaudible].
Wheeler
I’m trying to think of the name of the one—oh. Mission Road Baptist Church. Antioch. Fountain Head. Um, there were two more down in Lawtonville, but I can’t think of the names of either one of ‘em. One of ‘em’s still operating. But church was a—a big, uh, factor in what went on in town.
Horner
D—did the Methodists and Baptists cooperate? I mean, they lived—they were…
Wheeler
Yeah.
Horner
…fairly close together.
Wheeler
Yeah. The early days, they had service every other Sunday. And whatever Sunday it was—that the Methodist Church, everybody went there. Then the next week, they’d go to the Baptist Church.
Horner
[laughs]. [clears throat]. Well, to get on a bit of a lighter side, uh, when it comes around Halloween, we always hear talk about the spooky Oviedo lights.
Wheeler
Yeah.
Horner
We’re famous for having the spooky Oviedo lights. What were they? Or are they, if they still exist?
Wheeler
There are [clears throat]—they still exist. But the reality of ‘em has been blown way out of proportion. Back then, if you went down there to the bridge on a bright moonlit night, you could see a sparkle in the water. And it was phosphorous. And that became i—i—it was just a curiosity to go and see. And, of course, that bridge is way out beyond anywhere. And the kids’d like to go there.
Um, but then it got to be the Oviedo lights. And if we went to Winter Park or Sanford, we’d hear the kids talking about the Oviedo lights. And, oh, there was this ball of fire coming down the road. And, um, there was somebody hung in the water tower. Um…
Horner
Was that true? Somebody hung in the water tower?
Wheeler
No.
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
None of that was…
Horner
None of…
Wheeler
… true.
Horner
…that.
Wheeler
None of that was true. But you couldn’t convince anybody that i—I’d say there was more chemical enhancement…
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
… that went on than anything else.
Horner
[laughs]. Oo. Okay. S—Since you are so knowledgeable—mm—uh, lived in Oviedo and your family lived there, is there anything else that’s unique or special about Oviedo that you remember?
Wheeler
[sniffs] Well, it’s kind of lost this now, since we’re not a bedroom community any more, but there was a community that engulfed everybody. And there were any number of things that were citizen-initiated that we would’ve never had otherwise. The swimming pool for one. The Memorial Building for another. The doctor’s clinic for another. The Woman’s Club started the first garbage collection. The Woman’s Club funded the first, um—I don’t know what you’d call it now. We called it a rescue wagon. You know, a van with oxygen and sh—
Horner
Ah.
Wheeler
First responder kind of thing.
Horner
‘Cause there was[sic] no EMTs…
Wheeler
No.
Horner
…so…
Wheeler
The firemen manned it. Um, you were asking me a while ago about how did you reported[sic] a fire. Well, there was a big whistle up on pole by the firehouse. And you went there and pushed the button. And you could hear it all over town [sniffs]. And, uh, people would come. The men would come and they’d tell ‘em where the fire was. And—and they’d go to it. It usually amounted to saving the house next to the house that was on fire.
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
Because a lot of those houses were tarpaper and wood and all. And they just went up like a box of matches.
Horner
Mm. So do you just come up—the old fashioned thing. Do you come up and pump the pump? And spray the water on the house next door?
Wheeler
Well, not quite that primitive.
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
Um, in 1947, the City bought a Ford truck. It was the first one they could get after the war. And the young returning veterans built a tank—a water tank on it. And put a pump on it. And that was the first firetruck.
And then, in 1957, the City bought another, uh, commercial-grade firetruck. So we had two. But it wasn’t uncommon at all for a fire whistle to blow and somebody to rush down there who didn’t know where the fire was. And didn’t know how to operate the pump. And they’d get in the firetruck and go dashing off somewhere. Somebody’d have to catch ‘em and bring ‘em back [laughs].
Horner
[laughs]. Eh, they c—they couldn’t pick up the microphone and say…
Wheeler
No.
Horner
…“Dispatch. Where you going?”
Wheeler
No. There wasn’t any of that. Now, George Kelsey did have a radio connected to the sheriff’s department. But that was it.
Horner
[laughs]. Well, I was trying to think if there was anything else I didn’t—it is interesting that Oviedo was so close-knit that they did sw—the swimming pool, the Memorial Building in f—in memoriam to the Second y—World War people. And, uh, the canning m—m—
Wheeler
Yeah.
Horner
…kitchen.
Wheeler
That was a…
Horner
The community canning kitchen.
Wheeler
…a thing for the war effort. But that Memorial Building and the clinic—both were built with as much donated labor and materials as there was p—probably more than what was purchased [sniffs]. Dudas gave the lumber. Um, Bob Ash was a brick mason. He laid all the block. Joe Leinhart had lumber that he had cut in Black Hammock years ago. He furnished all the w—trim and the woodwork for the inside of the building. He probably put it up, knowing him.
Um, it was a—it was a concerted effort because Dr. Martin had retired. And he had to move to Orlando in order to retire because people wouldn’t quit coming.
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
His office was right beside his house up there where the Baptist church is now. And people just wouldn’t take no for an answer. And so finally, he moved. And that was another thing my grandfather was a[sic] instigator in. He called together the leading businessmen in town. And they said, “The only way we’re ever gonna get a doctor is to build a place for him to practice.” And so, the major—mostly the major farmers in the area went together and raised some money. And then set the volunteers to work.
Horner
And they built the clinic.
Wheeler
And they built the clinic.
Horner
You know? ‘Cause the—the farmers at that time would have been the leading lights…
Wheeler
Yeah.
Horner
…of the community.
Wheeler
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Horner
‘Cause they were the ones bringing in the income.
Wheeler
Mhmm.
Horner
How did the African-American community and the white community get along with each other?
Wheeler
[sniffs] I don’t ever remember any—any discord of any kind except for that one incident in high school. And that was quickly put to rest. And we all just got along.
Horner
I heard a story once from a—a man who said that, uh, Benjamin Wheeler bought him a car. ‘Cause he was—he didn’t have the money. And he needed it because he was the crew chief. And he needed to get the guys to work. Do you remember that story?
Wheeler
Oh, yeah. Yeah. That was Buster Garrison. And he—he was an entrepreneur. He hauled his crew to the grove. And then he’d put sides on his truck and load it with oranges. And haul ‘em to the juice plant. And, of course, old trucks were always…
Horner
Breaking.
Wheeler
… something wrong with ‘em. And he finally went to my dad and said, “Mr. Frank. I mean I need me a new truck. And I ain’t got no money. And I don’t want you to tell me no [laughs].”
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
And what did—what did Frank Wheeler say?
Horner
He got him a truck.
Wheeler
[laughs].
Horner
I don’t know what their arrangements were. I’m sure he paid some on it. But Buster was a, um, hugely industrious person. To work night and day. Do anything you want him to do. Gladly. And my dad just saw the worth of it. He sent him over to Holler Chevrolet. And I’m sure he called Mr. Holler and said, “Get this man a truck.” That’s the way things worked back then.
Um, years later—years later, I had a mirror get knocked off of my Chevrolet truck. One of the outside mirrors. And I went to the place to get it seen about. And I was in my work clothes. And I had my little dog with me. And the only thing I had for a leash was a piece of hay bailing twine about so long. So I made a leash out of that. And me and her were walking around outside. And the—the service writer said, “Well, I don’t know if we’ve got the part. And I don’t know if we’ve got time to put it on.” And all this, that and the other. I said, "I’ll wait.” ‘Cause this was in Winter Park, now. And there was—I’ll never forget this. There was a salesman. He had rose-colored glasses and a pink ultra-suede coat on.
Wheeler
[laughs].
Horner
And he came out there to smoke a cigarette and took one look at me and my dog and wheeled around and went back inside [laughs].
Wheeler
[laughs].
Horner
And so help me, it wasn’t a minute or two, Mr. Holler came out. And he walked over there to me. And we shook hands and started talking. You know, just passing the time. And all of a sudden, that service writer came out there and said, “Mr. Wheeler, we gon’ get you taken care of [laughs].”
Wheeler
[laughs].
Horner
You looked like you didn’t have two nickels to rub together.
Wheeler
That’s…
Horner
He didn’t…
Wheeler
That’s…
Horner
He didn’t know who he was dealing with.
Wheeler
That’s what they thought.
Horner
[laughs]. And you’re one…
Wheeler
I…
Horner
… one of the most important families in town [laughs].
Wheeler
Can’t judge a book by its cover.
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
I guess the one story I would tell again, because it’s so funny to me.
Horner
[clears throat].
Wheeler
Our county commissioner in this district was B.C. Dodd . He lived out there in Goldenrod. And at that time, the commissioner got to say where the road money was spent in his district. Well, I want so and so fixed. Or it’s—you know, whatever. So Mr. Dodd stood up and he said, “I wanna pave that road from the city limits of Oviedo to the county line.” Which is now Alafaya Trail. It was just dirt before that. And the commissioner from Sanford jumped up and says, “I don’t know why you wanna do that.” Said, “Ain’t nobody ever gonna use it.” [laughs].
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
And he says, “You hush, Pope. I didn’t say anything about what you did in your district. And this is what I wanna do.” And how prophetic that decision turned out to be. Because where Mitchell Hammock Road crosses Alafaya was the city limits. And from there on out this way was dirt. Clay.
Horner
And he was the only one that was farsighted enough to see you’re gonna need her. Hm.
Wheeler
That was—that was in the early sixties. We had heard about what was gonna be the new space university, but nothing had actually happened.
Horner
Ah. Yeah. ‘Cause they hadn’t chosen the site yet.
Wheeler
Right.
Horner
Boy. He was taking a gamble.
Wheeler
Yeah. He was.
Horner
Maybe that’s why Dodd Road is named after him.
Wheeler
Well, he was a—he was a prominent figure. And he was huge. He was, uh, like 7 foot something tall. And he wore—they’ve got one of his shoes in the Goldenrod Museum. And it’s—I’m not kidding. It’s like that.
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
He was a giant. And, of course, that went along with his demeanor.
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
At that time, they were trying to decide where to put FTU . And one of the sites they looked at is where Seminole Community College is. And another site they looked at was there at—across from Lockwood Road and [County Road] 419. And Mr. C.S. Lee offered to give ‘em the land if they’d put it there.
Horner
[laughs].
Wheeler
But Mr. Billy Dial in Orlando, and a few more like that, th—they wasn’t gonna have that. So FTU got put where it is. And as a conciliation prize, we got the Iron Bridge sewer plant and Seminole [State] College. And where they are is no accident.
Horner
Uh huh.
Wheeler
There is still some animosity there.
Horner
So we’re here at UCF. And it’s out of the farsightedness of Mr. Dodd. And…
Wheeler
Well, he…
Horner
…we got a way to get here.
Wheeler
…he played a role in it [sniffs].
Horner
Well, is there anything else that you would like to add about Oviedo? Something that you really appreciate about living in that town. Growing up in that town.
Wheeler
The people. I had so many good friends. And—and a lot of people worked for my dad. And, of course, I got to know them. And, uh, I miss ‘em tremendously. And I miss that sense of community.
Horner
The whole downtown is gone now.
Wheeler
The whole downtown is gone. But what’s really gone is that fellowship. If you needed something that somebody in the community was—that was their forte, you just went to ‘em and said, “You know, I need a well put down.” “I need a survey made.” “I need, you know, whatever it was.” And, uh, they all worked together [sniffs].
I wrote a column for The [Seminole] Voice one time about they all worked together. And I can’t find it anymore. But I named a couple of dozen things that happened that way in Oviedo.
Horner
Somebody needed their fellow man.
Wheeler
Well, we need a clinic. We need a city hall. We need a swimming pool. We need garbage service. There was just a—a lot of things that—and they would have never happened any other way. Because we weren’t going to get any support from the county. And the city didn’t have any money.
Horner
Hm. Yeah. Well, thank you, Ben, for talking to us. And letting us…
Wheeler
My…
Horner
…know…
Wheeler
…pleasure.
Horner
…about Oviedo. And you’re—you’re a fount of knowledge.
Wheeler
I’ll probably go home and say, “Dang. Why didn’t I tell ‘em that?”
Horner
[laughs]. I’m sure you will.
Alafaya Trail
Andrew George Alexander Kelsey
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Basil Corbett “B.C.” Dodd
bedroom community
Benjamin "Ben" Franklin Wheeler III
Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Wheeler, Jr.
Benjamin Franklin Wheeler
Black Hammock
Buster Garrison
Charles Simeon Lee
citrus industry
Clara Isabelle Lawton
Desta Lee Horner
Dinky Line
Five Points Operations Complex
Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad
Florida Technological University
Forrest Lake
Henry Shelton Sanford
Holler Chevrolet
Iron Bridge Water Pollution Control Facility
Jacob Summerlin
John Thomas Wheeler
King Brothers
Memorial Building
Narcissa Melissa
Nelson and Company Packing Plant
Nelson Brothers Packing House
orlando
Oviedo
Oviedo Depot
Oviedo Drug and Meat World
Oviedo Lights
packing houses
pine timber
Sanford
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Seminole County
Steen Nelson
T.L. Lingo
Theodore “Judge” Aulin, Sr.
Thomas Willingham Lawton
turpentine
University of Central Florida
Wheeler-Evans House
William Henry “Billy” Dial
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Title
Oviedo Historical Society Collection
Alternative Title
Oviedo Historical Society Collection
Subject
Oviedo (Fla).
Description
The Oviedo Historical Society Collection encompasses historical artifacts donated for digitization at the Oviedo Historical Society's History Harvest in the Spring semester of 2015.
The Oviedo Historical Society was organized in November 1973 by a group of citizens. The society is a 501(3) non-profit organization. Its purpose is to help preserve the community identity of Oviedo by collecting and disseminating knowledge about local history, serve as a repository for documents and artifacts relating to Oviedo history, promote the preservation and marking of historic sites and buildings in the Oviedo area and foster interest in local, state, national, and world history.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/128" target="_blank">Oviedo Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Oviedo, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>
<a href="http://history.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=304" target="_blank">Dr. Connie L. Lester</a>'s Introduction to Public History course, Spring 2015
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>." Oviedo Historical Society, Inc. http://oviedohs.com/.
Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979.
Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012.
"<a href="http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68" target="_blank">History</a>." City of Oviedo, Florida. http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68.
"<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3.
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
Dossie, Porsha
Interviewee
White, Edwin
White, Carolyn
Location
Oviedo History Harvest, <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>, Oviedo, Florida
Original Format
1 audio/video recording
Duration
13 minutes and 25 seconds
Bit Rate/Frequency
195kbps
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Title
Oral History of Edwin White and Carolyn White
Alternative Title
Oral History, White
Subject
Oviedo (Fla.)
Horses--Florida
Description
An oral history interview of Edwin White and Carolyn White, conducted by Porsha Dossie on April 18, 2015. Around 1967, the Whites moved to Oviedo, Florida, where they established a horse ranch. In the interview, the Whites discuss how Oviedo has changed over time, their horse ranch, and the wildlife that lives around their property. Due to technical difficulties, the first six and a half minutes of the recording lacked audio and were edited out of the final version.
Table Of Contents
<br />0:00:00 Introduction <br />0:02:10 How Oviedo has changed over time <br />0:05:58 Horse ranch <br />0:08:50 Staying healthy <br />0:10:58 Bath Lake and the surrounding wildlife <br />0:13:17 Closing remarks
Abstract
Oral history interview of Edwin White and Carolyn White. Interview conducted by Porsha Dossie on April 18, 2015.
Type
Moving Image
Source
White, Edwin and Carolyn White. Interviewed by Porsha Dossie, April 18, 2015. Audio/video record available. Oviedo History Harvest, <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>, Oviedo, Florida.
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<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/147" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society Collection</a>, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Has Format
14-page digital transcript of original 13-minute and 25-second oral history: White, Edwin and Carolyn White. Interviewed by Porsha Dossie, April 18, 2015. Audio/video record available. Oviedo History Harvest, <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>, Oviedo, Florida.
Coverage
Tally-Ho, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo, Florida
Creator
White, Edwin
White, Carolyn
Dossie, Porsha
Publisher
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>
Date Created
2015-04-18
Date Modified
2016-01-21
Date Copyrighted
2015-04-18
Format
video/mp4
application/pdf
Extent
482 MB
147 KB
Medium
13-minute and 25-second audio/video recording
14-page digital transcript
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Julia Edwin White and Carolyn White and Porsha Dossie, and published by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
Rights Holder
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>
Accrual Method
Item Creation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>
External Reference
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6302" target="_blank">All English Horse Show Set for Tally-Ho Farms</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6302.
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<a href="https://youtu.be/0wcqcuguoSo" target="_blank">Oral History of Edwin White and Carolyn White</a>
Transcript
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>And then, uh…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>At church.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Got married. Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Met at church.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>First Baptist [Church of Oviedo], and, uh, we moved to the Oviedo area then in about [19]60—67.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Something like that.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Or something like that, and, uh, built a small horse ranch out in the Black Hammock.</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Hm.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>And Carolyn [White], uh, had horses, and a pony from the time she was that high, and, uh, always wanted to have one. So then we, um, started that and had, uh, stable there, and, uh, she started riding lessons and trained horses, and had about 50 students a week, didn’t you?</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Mmhmm.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>A long time, and then, it got a little too—more than we wanted, so we moved down, um, to Chapman Road, here in Oviedo, but we’ve been in this area since back in the ‘60s, and, uh, both our boys grew up here and, uh, went to all the schools here, and, um—and they have also stayed in Oviedo, so shows ya it’s a nice place to live.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Yeah, Lars [D.] White is our son.</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Mmhmm.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>He’s Oviedo fire chief, and Don White is our other son, and he lives nearby, but he’s more like standoffish, so [<em>laughs</em>]…</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>So he doesn’t come to the meetings and so on, but he’s still a good person [<em>laughs</em>], but anyway, uh, here we are, and, um, we still love Oviedo. We still have eight acres, and we just love it, and I still teach riding and train horses. Keeps you young [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>We were here when, uh, UCF<a title="">[1]</a> was FTU.<a title="">[2]</a></p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Mmhmm.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>And when they first thought about doing it down—building it down there, and we thought it would end up something like a junior college, or [<em>laughs</em>], you know—now, it’s what? The second largest…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>In the state.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>In the…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>United States.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>It’s unbelievable.</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Yeah[?].</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>So…</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>But, uh…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Anyway, there’s a lot of traffic on Alafaya Trail now.</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>More than ever, and, um, it’s just grown and everything, but we’ve still stayed the same. We still do what we do, and enjoy it, and—and still love Oviedo. So that’s our story [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>[inaudible]. So I’m just going to talk you guys a little bit about the changes you’ve seen in Oviedo, and then…</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>[inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Just go from there, ‘cause you’ve been here since…</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Well…</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>The ‘60s.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Yeah, there were two-lane roads. There was nothing any larger than that, and…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Yeah, Alafaya…</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Most of ‘em…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Trail was.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Were dirt.</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Dirt?</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Yeah, the—Chapman Road, leading up to [<em>clears throat</em>] where our…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Mitchell Hammock [Road]?</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Property is, was just, um—it was like a washboard road, and, uh, Oviedo was much, much smaller than—I can’t even give you the size of it, but, uh…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>It was…</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>It has grown [inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>It was a farmers’ town.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Yeah, it was…</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Hm.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>They grew, uh…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Water…</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>When we built out in the, um…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Black…</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Black Hammock…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>[<em>clears throat</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Area, uh, they were growing cabbage, celery…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Watercress.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Watercress on large acreage, and that was the main, uh, products back then. So it has grown now, and of course, with the water situation like it is and everything, most of the farming has moved on out where more water is available, and watercress is down near Lake Okeechobee, where they do have enough water to take care of that.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>And lots of orange groves around too.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Lots of orange groves, which there aren’t a lot of those left. Uh, everywhere there was an orange tree, there’s a house now.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>But, uh, we still love Oviedo, but, um, we sometimes think we liked it better…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>We like less traffic [inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Less traffic, but we do have more conveniences, because here we are, so far out, and when you came from Orlando to Oviedo then, you felt like you were taking a day’s trip.</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Oh.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>But you weren’t, but, uh, it was, um—it was nice out here then, but it’s—it’s changed an awful lot. We do like the conveniences of a mall, and…</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Mmhmm.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Publix right around the corner, and—in fact, Carolyn used to ride her horse from where we are on Chapman Road—rode all in the, uh, shoppin’ center area.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>We, uh, ran through Publix.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Used to ride right through Publix.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Right where the bank was, and…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Oh.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Uh, it—it has grown a lot, and we could take—we could go out the back of our property and, uh, take a, um, hayride and go all in through…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Ceme…</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Where the…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>The cemetery.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Yeah, the cemetery that was there and the, um—where the shopping center is actually. So we’ve seen it grow a lot. Mitchell Hammock Road is, um, now—what is it? Six lanes?</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Yeah [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Yeah, it’s about…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Just[?]…</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Three each way.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Huge [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>And, uh, it was just dirt.</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>So it’s brought conveniences. It’s brought a lot of problems, and so on, but you can’t get around it. You…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>You have to go with the flow.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Mmhmm.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>That’s[sic] about sums it up. Don’t ya think, Ed[win White]?</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Yeah, unless she’s<a title="">[3]</a> got…</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Uh, is there anything else you guys would like to add that you—I haven’t covered? [inaudible] you guys have givin’ me a lot of information already, but if there’s something you think you should add, feel free.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Well[?]…</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Because you came in 1967 to Oviedo?</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>‘Bout ’67, yes.</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Um, what were you doing as a job then? Were you working as well?</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>She would—actually, we had the horse farm.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>And…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>I was—I had, like, 40 students a week. I was—had a lot of business. I mean, everybody wanted their kids to have lessons, and I had adults in the morning, and I taught kids in the afternoon…</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Mmhmm.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>In group lessons and usually had private lessons in the mornin’. So I’ve been doing this for a long time. Kinda know what I’m doing [<em>laughs</em>] by this stage, and I still enjoy it, and I think it keeps, um, the physical—the physicality of it…</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Mmhmm.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Keeps us young. I mean, we’re outdoors all the time, and it’s, um—it’s just part of our lifestyle.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>And we live on a small lake,<a title="">[4]</a> and, um, it’s really funny, because when we were looking for property, I was so sick of Black Hammock and it being so wet—very wet. If it rained, it rained in the Black Hammock. We were just indulged[?] with rain, and we just got so tired of it, and so finally, we just wanted to get out of there, and get where it’s high and dry, and that’s why we came over to this side of town, versus being down in the Black Hammock, and we were lookin’ for high-and-dry property, and found it. One of my riding students told us that there was property down the street from them, and so we came and looked and bought it right away, ‘cause we just—we really wanted to be high and dry, and so we just, um—my business followed me over here, and, um, still teach and still trainin’. I just don’t give group lessons anymore, which I gave—I used to do a lot of that. So I still enjoy what I’m doing [<em>coughs</em>], and it keeps us healthy. So we still love Oviedo [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>During that time, we were boarding horses for the people that lived in town also, so—in Orlando and Winter Springs and, uh, Winter Park, and, uh—so that brought a lot of the kids out ever[sic] day after school. They would come out to ride their horses and take their lessons and so on. So…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>And[?]</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Both our—both our boys loved having all the girls coming out every afternoon…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>After school [<em>laughs</em>], and it kept the boys at home too.</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Hm.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Because the girls came to them [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>And your—both your sons grew up in Oviedo and attended, uh, the Oviedo schools?</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>[inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Did they go to Oviedo High School?</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Yes[?].</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>And—and the grammar school.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Yeah, and, uh, we—we just fell in love with Oviedo, and we just, um, became more a part of it, being uptown now, not back in the Black Hammock, and, uh, so we’ve enjoyed it a whole lot. We enjoy church here and met a lot of friends in church, and you finally just grow into the community. That’s what happened to us, and we still love it, and we still love what we do. We still keep healthy that way. I keep telling him that [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Yeah, it’s—it keeps me going and…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>It’s making me healthy.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>] Uh, and during that time, we were, um—she was taking care of the boarding and the, uh—and I was an IRS<a title="">[5]</a> agent, so I did that until I retired, and then, um—since I retired, I’m still doing the horses.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>That’s helping.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Not[?] doing me [<em>laughs</em>]…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>So…</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>But we’ve met a lot of nice people, and we still run into ‘em occasionally at, uh, the grocery store or something like that, and—so it’s been an interesting life.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Lot of people ask us, “How do you keep so young?” You know, ‘cause we’re physical[sic] good shape, except for my neck [<em>laughs</em>]. So I had an accident, and, um, so I had neck surgery. So the past couple of years has been a little bit rough on me—getting’ over it, but I’ll get over it again. So anyway, we still love what we do. We still love workin’ outdoors. We—we just—I just feel like we’re blessed to have good health.</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>I think when you get our age—I mean, goodness—and you’re still goin’ strong, and you’re still able to do physical work, you know, and I don’t think anything by[?] goin’ out and trimmin’ trees and doin’ all kinds of stuff, ‘cuz we’ve always done it, and livin’ on the lake, we had to keep the lake clean. So if—we’ve got that lake pretty well cleaned by now.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>What lake do you guys live on?</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>It’s, um…</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Bath Lake.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Bath Lake.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>B-A-T-H.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>It’s kind of a funny name…</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Because it’s a smaller lake, but it’s nice, and it’s clear water and everything. So we’ve kept the lake nice and clean, and—and, uh, keep our property up and enjoy it. We—we enjoy our work. So I don’t know how many people can say that at our age.</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>And even though…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Oviedo is grown so in the traffic and, uh, all the houses [<em>clears throat</em>], we still, on our piece of property, have the deer coming through, um—going from one location to another, and they pass through our property most[sic] every night, and we have the fish out there, and we have all kinds of water birds, and, uh, we, right now are…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>We have…</p>
<p><strong>Edwin</strong> Going through the, uh, sandhill cranes, which have been coming through our property eighty[sic]…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Eight…</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Eight years.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Eight or nine years.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>And they, each year, have a—an offspring, and so this year right now, they have a little one about that big. Well, [<em>laughs</em>] he’s grown…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Already in a week, and we have, uh, all sorts of animals around, and right now, there’s a, um, [great] blue heron—two blue heron[sic] that have built a nest in the top of a pine tree…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Down…</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Down by the lake, and they have offspring in there right now. So…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>They’re huge. Blue…</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>There’s always something…</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Blue herons.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Exciting happening.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>They’re beautiful birds. They’re huge too. When, you know, they go up there and they build this humongous nest—I mean, it—thing is probably that big.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Yeah, it looks like an eagle’s nest. It’s so huge.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>And they—I know they have at least one—maybe they have two babies in there, but they’re quite noisy, and they’re raising them. So that’s our first for that—with the blue herons puttin’ their nest up there. So the blue herons just hang out at our place. We have eagles once in a while that’ll land, and it’s—it’s just interesting. That pretty well sums it up, I think, Ed?</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>Well, I thank you guys so much for talking to us and taking out the time to come[?] here.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dossie<br /></strong>This is really nice.</p>
<p><strong>Carolyn<br /></strong>Thank you for inviting us.</p>
<p><strong>Edwin<br /></strong>Yes.</p>
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<p><a title="">[1]</a> University of Central Florida.</p>
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<p><a title="">[2]</a> Florida Technological University.</p>
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<p><a title="">[3]</a> Porsha Dossie.</p>
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<p><a title="">[4]</a> Bath Lake.</p>
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<p><a title="">[5]</a> Internal Revenue Service.</p>
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Carolyn White
Chapman Road
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Don White
Ed White
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Title
Oviedo Historical Society Collection
Alternative Title
Oviedo Historical Society Collection
Subject
Oviedo (Fla).
Description
The Oviedo Historical Society Collection encompasses historical artifacts donated for digitization at the Oviedo Historical Society's History Harvest in the Spring semester of 2015.
The Oviedo Historical Society was organized in November 1973 by a group of citizens. The society is a 501(3) non-profit organization. Its purpose is to help preserve the community identity of Oviedo by collecting and disseminating knowledge about local history, serve as a repository for documents and artifacts relating to Oviedo history, promote the preservation and marking of historic sites and buildings in the Oviedo area and foster interest in local, state, national, and world history.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/128" target="_blank">Oviedo Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Oviedo, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>
<a href="http://history.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=304" target="_blank">Dr. Connie L. Lester</a>'s Introduction to Public History course, Spring 2015
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>." Oviedo Historical Society, Inc. http://oviedohs.com/.
Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979.
Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012.
"<a href="http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68" target="_blank">History</a>." City of Oviedo, Florida. http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68.
"<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3.
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A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
8-page newspaper edition
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Title
The Oviedo Outlook, Volume 4, Number 40, May 26, 1977
Alternative Title
The Oviedo Outlook, Vol. 4, No. 40
Subject
Oviedo (Fla.)
Description
Volume 4, number 40 of <em>The Oviedo Outlook</em>, published on May 26, 1977. <em>The Oviedo Outlook</em> was published every Thursday at 173 West Broadway Street in Oviedo, Florida. The newspaper was operated by the NPN Corporation, president and general manager Lawrence E. Neely, vice president and managing editor James "Randy" R. Noles, and secretary-treasurer and business manager Marilyn Neely. Topics discussed in various articles in this issue include a meeting between Oviedo City Council members and Seminole County Commissioners, a fish fry held in honor of former Chief of Police George Kelsey, Oviedo's new city plan, the history of the First Baptist Church of Chuluota, Oviedo High School's (OHS) Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA) chapter, Circuit Judge Robert McGregor's ruling on a rape case, athlete awards at OHS, poetry wards for students of Jackson Heights Middle School (JHMS), a burglary at T.W. Lawton Elementary School, the death of Lillian Della Lee Lawton, graduation at Florida Technological University (present-day University of Central Florida), Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) elections at JHMS, and results of the Oviedo Little League. This issue also includes a classified section and numerous advertisements through the issue. This issue is missing pages 5 through 8.
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Text
Source
Original 8-page newspaper edition: <em>The Oviedo Outlook</em>, Vol. 4, No. 40, May 26, 1977: <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>, Oviedo, Florida.
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Is Part Of
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>, Oviedo, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/147" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society Collection</a>, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of Original 8-page newspaper edition: <em>The Oviedo Outlook</em>, Vol. 4, No. 40, May 26, 1977.
Coverage
Oviedo City Hall, Memorial Building, Downtown Oviedo, Florida
First Baptist Church of Chuluota, Chuluota, Florida
Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
Seminole County Criminal Justice Center, Sanford, Florida
Florida Technological University, Orlando, Florida
Sanford Civic Center, Sanford, Florida
Jackson Heights Middle School, Oviedo, Florida
Langford Resort Hotel, Winter Park, Florida
T. W. Lawton Elementary School, Oviedo, Florida
Home of Lillian Della Lee Lawton, Oviedo, Florida
First United Methodist Church of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida
Publisher
<em>The Oviedo Outlook</em>
Date Created
ca. 1977-05-26
Date Issued
1977-05-26
Date Copyrighted
1977-05-26
Format
application/pdf
Extent
2.8 MB
Medium
8-page newspaper edition
Language
eng
Mediator
History teachers
Civics/Government teachers
Economics teachers
Geography Teacher
Provenance
Originally published by <em>The Oviedo Outlook</em>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <em>The Oviedo Outlook</em> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3.
Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979.
"<a href="http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68" target="_blank">History</a>." City of Oviedo, Florida. http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68.
Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012.
A. Duda and Sons Cubs
Adrienne Barr
Aein Road
Alafaya Trail
Albert Roberts
Albert's Jewelers
Alex Alexander Realty
American Heart Association
Andy's Home Service
Angeline Mizelle
Ann Belencak
Ann Roberts
Annie Jacobs
Artco Rubber Stamps and Printing
Baldwin-McNamara Funeral Home Yankees
Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr.
Bernard Baruch
Bernard Mannes Baruch
Betty Ann Bledy Katzin
Big Oak Ranch
Black Hammock Kennels
Bob Hansche
Bob Szelc
Bob's TV Service
Bobby Joe Couch
Brenda Reichle
Brumley Road
Bryant Hickson
C & R TV-CB
C. Carter
C. S. Lee
Cardinals
Carol Masey
Central Florida Motors
Century 21
Chalay Heifer
Chandel Coffie
Charles Mays
Charles Simeon Lee
Charles Swaggerty
Charlie Johnson
Cheryl Hird
Cheryl Paxton
Cheryl Phillips
Chris Auturino
Christine Berney
Chuluota
Chuluota Baptist Church
Church of Christ
CiGi's Pizza
Cindy Ward
Citizens Bank of Oviedo
Citizens Bank Twins
City of Oviedo
Cocoa Beach
Collette Beasley
Colonial Drive
Conley and Associates
Conley and Associates Angels
Continental Singers
Cristie Elizabeth Cole
Cynthia Arndt
Cynthia Brundidge
Cynthia Johnson Sloan
Cynthia Weiss
D. F. Simmons
D. Knickerbocker
Dale Phillips
Daniel Lott
Darrell Duda
Darren Spencer
Daryl Ely
Dave Caughill
Dave Mizelle
David Duda
Dead Road
Demetrius Hill
Denise Duda
Dennis Sondag
Dick Williams
Dodgers
Don Jacobs
Donna Duda
Donna Neely
Donna Sloan
Doreas Jacobs
Duda Auto Parts
Eagles
Elizabeth Buck Bradley
Elizabeth Lawton
Elizabeth Lawton Laney
Falcon Development Company
Farewell Avenue
Favata's Bell-Cucina
FDOT
Fellowship Hall
Fergusons Nursery Cubs
Fin and Feather Restaurant
First Baptist Church of Chuluota
First Baptist Church of Oviedo
First Federal of Oviedo
First Federal of Seminole Expos
First United Methodist Church of Oviedo
Florida Department of Transportation
Florida Road Department
Florida State Road 419
Florida State Road 426
Florida State Road 50
Florida State Road 526
Florida Tech
Florida Technological University
Frank Kurtz Scharf, Jr.
Frank Phillips
Frank Wheeler, Sr. B. F. Wheeler, Sr.
French Avenue
G. M. Jacobs
Gale Associates Real Estate One, Inc.
Garden groves
Gary Hancock
Gary Hird
Gary Huggins
Gary Metcalf
Gaynor Mullin
Geneva Drive
George H. Kendrick
George Kelsey
George Lee
George Lee Wheeler
George Maurice Jacobs
George S. Eubanks, James R. Hall
Georgia Lee
Georgia Lee Wheeler
Gerald Edward Fensch
Give Heart Fund
Gordon Hathaway
Greater Oviedo Junior Chamber of Commerce
Greater Oviedo Junior Jaycees
Greg Hendley
Greg Kerr
Greg Korhne
Greg Roberts
H. J. Laney, Jr.
Hamp Bradford
Hanne Margret Lutken
Helen Hill
Henry Finne
Hiley's Fish Camp
Hillcrest Street
Hornet's
Howard Isner
Hurueal Bell
Iron Bridge Road
J & B Auto Parts
J. C. Barrington
J. F. Harrell
J. H. Lee, Sr.
J. Mann
J. W. Yarborough
Jack Share
Jackson Heights Middle schools
Jacob's Grove Service
James Andrew Burgess, Jr.
James Hibdon
James Hiram Lee, Sr.
James R. Noles, Jr.
James Wester
Jamie Birkenmeyer
Jaycees
Jean Rumsey
Jeff Morley
Jennings Neeld
Jerry Arndt
JHMS
Jim Andrews
Jim Todd
Jimmy Garlanger
Joanne Elizabeth Aldrich
Joanne Sheffield
Jody Michael
Joe Locklin
Joe Montgomery
John C. Westfall
John Cobb
John F. Kennedy Space Center
John Horn
John Lawton
John Pippin
Joseph Silvestri
Josie Prevatt
Joyce Johnson
June Etta Cone
Karen Whittaker
Kathleen Green
Kathryn Lawton
Kathy Batt
Keith Eubanks
Keith Grayson
Kelly Kearney
Kenneth Ashe
Kenneth Jacobs
Kim Boston
Kim Ventre
Kip Grant
KSC
Kurt Freund
Kyle Reichle
Lake Jesup
Lake Mills Road
Lake Pickett
Land Clearing
Langford Hotel
Larry Neely
Larry Roberts
Laura Barnett Lee
Lawrence E. Nelly
Lee R. Scherer
Lil Jackson
Lillian Della Lee Lawton
Linda Hall
Linda J. Stoothoff
Lisa Heidelmeir
Local Planning Agency
Lori Share
Lovel the Pied Piper
LPA
Lucy Smithson
Machon
Maggie Bentley
Manwell Hendrix
Marcea Linda Stiver
Marilyn Neely
Mark Lindsay
Mark Maupin
Mark Stewart
Martha Harrell
Martin Turner
Mary Ann Simmons
Mary Jacobs
Mary Taylor
Meat World Panthers
Mellonville
Memorial Day
Michael AmRhien
Michael Peimer
Michael Scott
Mike Meta
Mike Mullins
Mike Seiple
Mildred Allen
Morris Hedges
Nancy K. Cox
Nancy Van Wormer
Nelson and Company
Nora Kramer
North Texas State University
NPN Corporation
NTSU
Official Board
OHS: Wheeler Fertilizer
Oliver Grayson
Olliff's Barber and Hairstyling
Orangewood Feed and Tack
orlando
Orlando Avenue
Orlando Pressure Marcite
Over the Coffee
Oviedo
Oviedo Auto Parts
Oviedo Body Shop
Oviedo Cemetery
Oviedo Chief of Police
Oviedo Child Care
Oviedo Citizens' Charter Committee
Oviedo City Council
Oviedo Comprehensive Plan
Oviedo Drug
Oviedo Florist
Oviedo High School
Oviedo Little League
Oviedo Police Benevolent Association
Oviedo Weight Watchers
Oviedo Woman's Club
OWC
P. J. Jacobs
Pat Smithson
PBA
Peter Bozos
Peter Finch
Poli Brothers Lions
Pollyanna Jacobs
Pot Latch
Priscilla Hodges
Pru Michael
Prudence Long
Ralph Neely
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Randy Noles
Randy Willis
Ray Tyre
Real Estate One, Inc,
Reba Kozette Day
Reggie Barnes
Richard Painter
Rick Evans
Rick Nash
Ricky Evans
Robert Eby Cummings
Robert McGregory
Robin Ewald
Ron Wallace
Ronald Powell
Russell W. Boston
Sam Momary
Sammy Wiggs
Sanford
Sanford Civic Center
Sanford Plaza
Sanford Sewing Center
Scott Holten
Scott Meyer
SCPS: Lake Jessup Drive
Seminole County Commission
Seminole County Language Reading Arts Council
Seminole County Literary Magazine
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Seminole County School Board
Seminole-Brevard Circuit Court
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Sid Hoff
Sky King Youth Ranch
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Solary's wharf
SR 419
SR 426
SR 50
SR 526
Star
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Susan AmRhein
Susan Bravence Martin
Sweetwater Park
T. P. Long
T. W. Lawton
Tami Glassmire
The Oviedo Outlook
The Pony Tail
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Thomas Willington Lawton
tigers
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Tom Thompson
Tommy Boyle
Tracy Duda
Trey Ferlita
Tuscawilla Country Club Athletics
Uncle Hamp Bradford
Valerie Duda
Van Alstine
Veronica Sheehan
VICA
Viki Goulette
Vocational Industrial Clubs of America
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W. J. Lawton, Jr.
W. J. Lawton, Sr.
Wade Yeatman
Walter Routh
Ward and Blackwood Indians
Warfield
Wayne E. Lanham
Wayne Jacobs
Wayne Johnson
Wayne Roberts
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William Jacobs
William Mark Wise
William Taylor
Willie Wiggs
Winborn Joseph Lawton, Jr.
Winborn Joseph Lawton, Sr.
Winter Park
Woman's Missionary Society
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Westinghouse Electric Collection
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Westinghouse Collection
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Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Description
Originally called the Westinghouse Electric Company, George Westinghouse (1846-1914) founded his manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1886. In 1889, he renamed his business the The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Westinghouse's primary products include turbines, generators, motors and switchgear related to the generation, transmission, and use of electricity. The company changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. In 1981, the company began to relocate its divison headquarters for the Steam-Turbine Generator Divisions from Pennsylvania (turbines from Lester and generators from Pittsburgh) to Orlando, Florida. The Power Generation Business Unit (PGBU) building was located in The Quadrangle, at 4400 Alafaya Trail. Originally, Westinghouse had purchased a large plot of land for future development that extended westward from Alafaya Trail to Rouse Road. The original headquarters was located on several acres of that land parcel close to Alafaya Trail.<br /><br />In 1994, after a major corporate management shuffling, and a top-level decision to change from an industrial manufacturing company to primarily a broadcasting/communications company, Westinghouse bought the CBS Network and changed its name to the CBS Corporation. As the PGBU grew in size, other buildings in the area were leased and then, after PGBU was sold to Siemens Corporation of Germany in 1998, additional buildings (Quad II and Quad III) were added to the original complex at the Quadrangle. From 1998 to 2003 the Orlando operation was known as Siemens-Westinghouse, after which the name of Westinghouse was dropped. The operation has been known as Siemens from that time forward.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Orlando, Florida
Curator
DeRosa, Peter
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
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Original Format
32-page booklet
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Title
Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet
Description
A commemorative booklet published in 1993 or 1994 by Westinghouse's Power Generation Business Unit (PGBU) in Orlando, Florida, to celebrate 100 years of "Westinghouse Power Generation." The booklet tells the history from the founding of the business by George Westinghouse (1846-1914) and its continuing progress through 100 years of service to the electric utility industry and other industrial customers worldwide. The booklet also describes the products and services, technology and manufacturing capabilities of the Power Generation Business Unit of the early 1990s.<br /><br />Originally called the Westinghouse Electric Company, George Westinghouse founded his manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1886. In 1889, he renamed his business the The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Westinghouse's primary products include turbines, generators, motors and switchgear related to the generation, transmission, and use of electricity. The company changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. In 1981, the company began to relocate its divison headquarters for the Steam-Turbine Generator Divisions from Pennsylvania (turbines from Lester and generators from Pittsburgh) to Orlando, Florida. The Power Generation Business Unit (PGBU) building was located in The Quadrangle, at 4400 Alafaya Trail. Originally, Westinghouse had purchased a large plot of land for future development that extended westward from Alafaya Trail to Rouse Road. The original headquarters was located on several acres of that land parcel close to Alafaya Trail.<br /><br />In 1994, after a major corporate management shuffling, and a top-level decision to change from an industrial manufacturing company to primarily a broadcasting/communications company, Westinghouse bought the CBS Network and changed its name to the CBS Corporation. As the PGBU grew in size, other buildings in the area were leased and then, after PGBU was sold to Siemens Corporation of Germany in 1998, additional buildings (Quad II and Quad III) were added to the original complex at the Quadrangle. From 1998 to 2003 the Orlando operation was known as Siemens-Westinghouse, after which the name of Westinghouse was dropped. The operation has been known as Siemens from that time forward.
Date Created
1993
Coverage
Westinghouse Electric Company, Turtle Creek, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Westinghouse Power Generation Business Unit, Orlando, Florida
Source
Original 32-page booklet, 1993.
Rights Holder
This resource is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Transcript
Document comprises a booklet 34 pages in length.
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
Alternative Title
Westinghouse Power Generation
Subject
Orlando (Fla.)
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Date Copyrighted
1993
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 32-page booklet, 1993.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/169" target="_blank">Westinghouse Electric Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
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application/pdf
Extent
5.02 MB
Medium
32-page booklet
Language
eng
Type
Text
Accrual Method
Donation
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Science Teacher
Curator
Jaeger, Harry
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
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Title
Westinghouse Electric Collection
Alternative Title
Westinghouse Collection
Subject
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Description
Originally called the Westinghouse Electric Company, George Westinghouse (1846-1914) founded his manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1886. In 1889, he renamed his business the The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Westinghouse's primary products include turbines, generators, motors and switchgear related to the generation, transmission, and use of electricity. The company changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. In 1981, the company began to relocate its divison headquarters for the Steam-Turbine Generator Divisions from Pennsylvania (turbines from Lester and generators from Pittsburgh) to Orlando, Florida. The Power Generation Business Unit (PGBU) building was located in The Quadrangle, at 4400 Alafaya Trail. Originally, Westinghouse had purchased a large plot of land for future development that extended westward from Alafaya Trail to Rouse Road. The original headquarters was located on several acres of that land parcel close to Alafaya Trail.<br /><br />In 1994, after a major corporate management shuffling, and a top-level decision to change from an industrial manufacturing company to primarily a broadcasting/communications company, Westinghouse bought the CBS Network and changed its name to the CBS Corporation. As the PGBU grew in size, other buildings in the area were leased and then, after PGBU was sold to Siemens Corporation of Germany in 1998, additional buildings (Quad II and Quad III) were added to the original complex at the Quadrangle. From 1998 to 2003 the Orlando operation was known as Siemens-Westinghouse, after which the name of Westinghouse was dropped. The operation has been known as Siemens from that time forward.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Orlando, Florida
Curator
DeRosa, Peter
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
10-page booklet
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Title
Orlando Centennial Scrapbook: Westinghouse Centennial, 1886-1986
Alternative Title
Westinghouse Centennial
Subject
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Westinghouse, George, 1846-1914
Description
In commemoration of the 100-year anniversary of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, this booklet was created to tell the highlights of the contribution of George Westinghouse (1846-1914) , identify the many connected families in the employee ranks, and to report on the celebration that marked the event and progress of the organization.<br /><br />Originally called the Westinghouse Electric Company, George Westinghouse (1846-1914) founded his manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1886. In 1889, he renamed his business The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Westinghouse's primary products include turbines, generators, motors and switchgear related to the generation, transmission, and use of electricity. The company changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. In 1981, the company began to relocate its division headquarters for the Steam-Turbine Generator Divisions from Pennsylvania (turbines from Lester and generators from Pittsburgh) to Orlando, Florida. The Power Generation Business Unit (PGBU) building was located in The Quadrangle, at 4400 Alafaya Trail. Originally, Westinghouse had purchased a large plot of land for future development that extended westward from Alafaya Trail to Rouse Road. The original headquarters was located on several acres of that land parcel close to Alafaya Trail.<br /><br />In 1994, after a major corporate management shuffling, and a top-level decision to change from an industrial manufacturing company to primarily a broadcasting/communications company, Westinghouse bought the CBS Network and changed its name to the CBS Corporation. As the PGBU grew in size, other buildings in the area were leased and then, after PGBU was sold to Siemens Corporation of Germany in 1998, additional buildings (Quad II and Quad III) were added to the original complex at the Quadrangle. From 1998 to 2003 the Orlando operation was known as Siemens-Westinghouse, after which the name of Westinghouse was dropped. The operation has been known as Siemens from that time forward.
Type
Text
Source
Original 10-page booklet: Scalise, Jan, ed. <em>Orlando Centennial Scrapbook: Westinghouse Centennial, 1886-1986</em> (Orlando: Human Resources Communications, Westinghouse Orlando, 1986): Private Collection of George E. Baker.
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Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/169" target="_blank">Westinghouse Electric Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 10-page booklet: Scalise, Jan, ed. <em>Orlando Centennial Scrapbook: Westinghouse Centennial, 1886-1986</em> (Orlando: Human Resources Communications, Westinghouse Orlando, 1986).
Coverage
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Westinghouse Power Generation Business Unit, Orlando, Florida
Publisher
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Contributor
Scalise, Jan
Baker, George E.
Date Created
ca. 1986
Date Copyrighted
ca. 1986
Format
application/pdf
Extent
3.06 MB
Medium
10-page booklet
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Science Teacher
Provenance
Originally edited by Jan Scalise and published by Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by Westinghouse Electric Corporation and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Baker, George E.
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
Private Collection of George E. Baker
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
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World's Fair: Columbian Exposition
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Title
Westinghouse Electric Collection
Alternative Title
Westinghouse Collection
Subject
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Description
Originally called the Westinghouse Electric Company, George Westinghouse (1846-1914) founded his manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1886. In 1889, he renamed his business the The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Westinghouse's primary products include turbines, generators, motors and switchgear related to the generation, transmission, and use of electricity. The company changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. In 1981, the company began to relocate its divison headquarters for the Steam-Turbine Generator Divisions from Pennsylvania (turbines from Lester and generators from Pittsburgh) to Orlando, Florida. The Power Generation Business Unit (PGBU) building was located in The Quadrangle, at 4400 Alafaya Trail. Originally, Westinghouse had purchased a large plot of land for future development that extended westward from Alafaya Trail to Rouse Road. The original headquarters was located on several acres of that land parcel close to Alafaya Trail.<br /><br />In 1994, after a major corporate management shuffling, and a top-level decision to change from an industrial manufacturing company to primarily a broadcasting/communications company, Westinghouse bought the CBS Network and changed its name to the CBS Corporation. As the PGBU grew in size, other buildings in the area were leased and then, after PGBU was sold to Siemens Corporation of Germany in 1998, additional buildings (Quad II and Quad III) were added to the original complex at the Quadrangle. From 1998 to 2003 the Orlando operation was known as Siemens-Westinghouse, after which the name of Westinghouse was dropped. The operation has been known as Siemens from that time forward.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Orlando, Florida
Curator
DeRosa, Peter
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
16-page booklet
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Title
Westinghouse Electric Corporation Steam Turbine-Generator Division World Headquarters Building Dedication, November 6, 1983
Alternative Title
Westinghouse Steam Turbine-Generator Division Building Dedication
Subject
Orlando (Fla.)
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Description
A booklet for the building dedication ceremony of Westinghouse Electric Corporation's Steam Turbine-Generator Division World Headquarters on November 6, 1983. As the decade of the 1970s was coming to a close, Westinghouse decided to consolidate and relocate the headquarters functions for Steam Turbines and Electric Generators to Orlando, Florida, on property they purchased across the street from the University of Central Florida. They had been located with their respective manufacturing locations at opposite ends of Pennsylvania for over 60 years: Generators in East Pittsburgh, and Steam Turbines in Lester, just outside of Philadelphia. In June of 1980, a small startup team arrived in Orlando, and by the late summer of 1983, the new headquarters building had been designed and constructed, and was ready for occupancy. On November 6, 1983, this booklet was distributed as part of a dedication ceremony. It also describes the many new features of the building, which was designed to facilitate teamwork, improve communication internally and with customers, utilize the latest designs in modular office furniture and information systems technology, and be a showcase for customers and potential customers.<br /><br />Originally called the Westinghouse Electric Company, George Westinghouse (1846-1914) founded his manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1886. In 1889, he renamed his business The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Westinghouse's primary products include turbines, generators, motors and switchgear related to the generation, transmission, and use of electricity. The company changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. In 1981, the company began to relocate its division headquarters for the Steam-Turbine Generator Divisions from Pennsylvania (turbines from Lester and generators from Pittsburgh) to Orlando, Florida. The Power Generation Business Unit (PGBU) building was located in The Quadrangle, at 4400 Alafaya Trail. Originally, Westinghouse had purchased a large plot of land for future development that extended westward from Alafaya Trail to Rouse Road. The original headquarters was located on several acres of that land parcel close to Alafaya Trail.<br /><br />In 1994, after a major corporate management shuffling, and a top-level decision to change from an industrial manufacturing company to primarily a broadcasting/communications company, Westinghouse bought the CBS Network and changed its name to the CBS Corporation. As the PGBU grew in size, other buildings in the area were leased and then, after PGBU was sold to Siemens Corporation of Germany in 1998, additional buildings (Quad II and Quad III) were added to the original complex at the Quadrangle. From 1998 to 2003 the Orlando operation was known as Siemens-Westinghouse, after which the name of Westinghouse was dropped. The operation has been known as Siemens from that time forward.
Type
Text
Source
Original 16-page booklet: Private Collection of Ned Kessler.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/169" target="_blank">Westinghouse Electric Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 16-page booklet.
Coverage
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, The Quadrangle, Orlando, Florida
Publisher
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Contributor
Kessler, Ned
Date Created
ca. 1983-10
Date Issued
ca. 1983-11-06
Format
application/pdf
Extent
2.11 MB
Medium
16-page booklet
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Geography Teacher
Provenance
Originally published by Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by Westinghouse Electric Corporation and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Kessler, Ned
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
Private Collection of Ned Kessler
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
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Furniture Systems Division
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Interactive Parts Management System
Interspace, Inc.
orlando
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The Quadrangle
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Westinghouse Electric Corporation
William Morgan Architects
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Title
Westinghouse Electric Collection
Alternative Title
Westinghouse Collection
Subject
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Description
Originally called the Westinghouse Electric Company, George Westinghouse (1846-1914) founded his manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1886. In 1889, he renamed his business the The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Westinghouse's primary products include turbines, generators, motors and switchgear related to the generation, transmission, and use of electricity. The company changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. In 1981, the company began to relocate its divison headquarters for the Steam-Turbine Generator Divisions from Pennsylvania (turbines from Lester and generators from Pittsburgh) to Orlando, Florida. The Power Generation Business Unit (PGBU) building was located in The Quadrangle, at 4400 Alafaya Trail. Originally, Westinghouse had purchased a large plot of land for future development that extended westward from Alafaya Trail to Rouse Road. The original headquarters was located on several acres of that land parcel close to Alafaya Trail.<br /><br />In 1994, after a major corporate management shuffling, and a top-level decision to change from an industrial manufacturing company to primarily a broadcasting/communications company, Westinghouse bought the CBS Network and changed its name to the CBS Corporation. As the PGBU grew in size, other buildings in the area were leased and then, after PGBU was sold to Siemens Corporation of Germany in 1998, additional buildings (Quad II and Quad III) were added to the original complex at the Quadrangle. From 1998 to 2003 the Orlando operation was known as Siemens-Westinghouse, after which the name of Westinghouse was dropped. The operation has been known as Siemens from that time forward.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Orlando, Florida
Curator
DeRosa, Peter
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
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Title
Westinghouse: The Power Behind Combined Cycle Plants
Alternative Title
Power Behind Combined Cycle Plants
Subject
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Description
A brochure that contains a summary of Westinghouse' Electric's gas turbine experience, starting during the 1940s when Westinghouse developed the first American-designed jet engine under contract with the U.S. Navy.<br /><br />Westinghouse Electric Corporation was a pioneer in the development of combined cycle power technology. The combined cycle concept marries gas turbine and steam turbine power generation by utilizing the "waste" heat energy in the exhaust of the gas turbine to generate steam to drive the steam turbine generator. Earliest combined cycle plants, installed during the early 1960s, were usually one-of-of-a-kind customized designs. In 1971, Westinghouse introduced the PACE (Power At Combined Efficiencies) pre-engineered combined cycle plant based on using two 80 MW W501B gas turbines and one 100 MW steam turbine. This brochure was produced in 1991 by the Power Generation Business Unit, headquartered at The Quadrangle, Orlando, FL, to describe the then-current combined cycle products offered by Westinghouse. Standardized plants ranged in size from the 68 MW plant based on one W251B11/12 gas turbine to the nominal 500MW 2-on-1 plant using two W501F gas turbines.
Type
Text
Source
Original 11-page brochure, 1991: Private Collection of Harry L. Jaeger.
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Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/169" target="_blank">Westinghouse Electric Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 11-page brochure, 1991.
Coverage
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, The Quadrangle, Orlando, Florida
Contributor
Jaeger, Harry L.
Date Created
1991
Format
application/pdf
Extent
3.25 MB
Medium
11-page brochure
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Science Teacher
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="https://www.siemens.com/global/en/home.html" target="_blank">Siemens</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Jaeger, Harry L.
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
100 MW steam turbines
80 MW W501B gas turbines
Alafaya Trail
cogeneration
combined cycle plants
combustion turbines
engineering
gas turbines
jet engines
Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award
Medicine Hat, Canada
Mojave, California
orlando
PACE
Pensacola
PGBU
Power At Combined Efficiencies
Power Generation Business Unit
Sayreville, New Jersey
steam turbine generators
The Quadrangle
W251B11/12 gas turbines
W501F gas turbines
waste heat energy
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Westinghouse Power Generation Service
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Title
Westinghouse Electric Collection
Alternative Title
Westinghouse Collection
Subject
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Description
Originally called the Westinghouse Electric Company, George Westinghouse (1846-1914) founded his manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1886. In 1889, he renamed his business the The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Westinghouse's primary products include turbines, generators, motors and switchgear related to the generation, transmission, and use of electricity. The company changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. In 1981, the company began to relocate its divison headquarters for the Steam-Turbine Generator Divisions from Pennsylvania (turbines from Lester and generators from Pittsburgh) to Orlando, Florida. The Power Generation Business Unit (PGBU) building was located in The Quadrangle, at 4400 Alafaya Trail. Originally, Westinghouse had purchased a large plot of land for future development that extended westward from Alafaya Trail to Rouse Road. The original headquarters was located on several acres of that land parcel close to Alafaya Trail.<br /><br />In 1994, after a major corporate management shuffling, and a top-level decision to change from an industrial manufacturing company to primarily a broadcasting/communications company, Westinghouse bought the CBS Network and changed its name to the CBS Corporation. As the PGBU grew in size, other buildings in the area were leased and then, after PGBU was sold to Siemens Corporation of Germany in 1998, additional buildings (Quad II and Quad III) were added to the original complex at the Quadrangle. From 1998 to 2003 the Orlando operation was known as Siemens-Westinghouse, after which the name of Westinghouse was dropped. The operation has been known as Siemens from that time forward.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Orlando, Florida
Curator
DeRosa, Peter
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
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Title
Westinghouse 501F Combustion Turbine Advertisement
Alternative Title
W501F Turbine Ad
Subject
Energy--United States
Description
The first advertisement for the Westinghouse 501F (W501F) combustion turbine in June of 1988. The 150MW-class (introductory rating) W501F was developed from 1987 to 1989 as a joint engineering program between Westinghouse Electric and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The W501F evolved in the tradition of Westinghouse's proven design features listed on this diagram. Changes to the design include canted combustors, shortened transition ducts, and a bolted and pinned compressor rotor. Up to that time, through the Westinghouse 501D5 (W501D5)A, compressor discs were shrunk onto the rotor shaft.<br /><br />Originally called the Westinghouse Electric Company, George Westinghouse (1846-1914) founded his manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1886. In 1889, he renamed his business The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Westinghouse's primary products include turbines, generators, motors and switchgear related to the generation, transmission, and use of electricity. The company changed its name to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. In 1981, the company began to relocate its division headquarters for the Steam-Turbine Generator Divisions from Pennsylvania (turbines from Lester and generators from Pittsburgh) to Orlando, Florida. The Power Generation Business Unit (PGBU) building was located in The Quadrangle, at 4400 Alafaya Trail. Originally, Westinghouse had purchased a large plot of land for future development that extended westward from Alafaya Trail to Rouse Road. The original headquarters was located on several acres of that land parcel close to Alafaya Trail.<br /><br />As the PGBU grew in size, other buildings were rented and then, after PGBU was sold to Siemens Corporation, additional buildings were added to the complex. In 1994, after a major corporate management shuffling and commitment to change from an industrial manufacturing company to primarily a broadcasting/communications company, Westinghouse bought the CBS Network and changed its name to the CBS Corporation. As the PGBU grew in size, other buildings were rented and then, after PGBU was sold to Siemens Corporation in 1998, additional buildings were added to the Quadrangle.
Type
Still Image
Source
Original advertisement: Private Collection of Harry L. Jaeger.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/169" target="_blank">Westinghouse Electric Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original advertisement.
Coverage
Westinghouse Power Generation Business Unit, Orlando, Florida
Contributor
Jaeger, Harry L.
Date Created
1988-06
Date Issued
1988-06
Date Copyrighted
1988-06
Format
image/jpg
Extent
1.47 MB
Medium
1 advertisement
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="https://www.siemens.com/global/en/home.html" target="_blank">Siemens</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Jaeger, Harry L.
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History" target="_blank">History</a>." Westinghouse Nuclear. http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/About/History.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422" target="_blank">Westinghouse Power Generation Booklet</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6422.
Alafaya Trail
combustion turbines
orlando
Power Projects Development
The Quadrangle
W501F
Westinghouse 501F
Westinghouse Electric Corporation