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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.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
42-page yearbook
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Title
The Oviedian, 1943
Alternative Title
The Oviedian
Subject
Oviedo (Fla.)
Schools
High schools--Florida
Education--Florida
World War II, 1939-1945
Description
<em>The Oviedian</em>, a yearbook for the 1942-1943 school year at Oviedo High School. Oviedo High School is a Seminole County Public School located in Oviedo, Florida. Originally called the Oviedo School, the institution was first established in 1932 as a K-12 school. In 1948, the secondary grades separated from the elementary school. The upper grade levels formed Oviedo High School and moved to the campus at 601 King Street. Oviedo High School is notable for The Lion's Tale, the award-winning school newspaper recognized by various national and state scholastic press associations; its high ratings from the Governor's A+ Plan for Education; and its successful athletics programs.
Type
Text
Source
Original yearbook: <em>The Oviedian</em>, Vol. VI (Oviedo, FL: <a href="http://www.oviedo.scps.k12.fl.us/" target="_blank">Oviedo High School</a>, 1943): Private Collection of Kathryn Aulin Bunch.
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/147" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society Collection</a>, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original yearbook: <em>The Oviedian</em>, Vol. VI (Oviedo, FL: <a href="http://www.oviedo.scps.k12.fl.us/" target="_blank">Oviedo High School</a>, 1943).
Coverage
Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
Creator
<em>The Oviedian</em>
Publisher
<a href="http://www.oviedo.scps.k12.fl.us/" target="_blank">Oviedo High School</a>
Contributor
Bunch, Kathryn
Date Created
1943
Date Issued
1943
Date Copyrighted
1943
Format
application/pdf
Extent
5.63 MB
Medium
42-page yearbook
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created and published by <em>The Oviedian</em>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="http://www.oviedo.scps.k12.fl.us/" target="_blank">Oviedo High School</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
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
Private Collection of Kathryn Aulin Bunch
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.oviedo.scps.k12.fl.us/" target="_blank">Oviedo High School</a>." Oviedo High School, Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.oviedo.scps.k12.fl.us/.
"<a href="http://www.ohsr.net/about-oviedo-high-school" target="_blank">About Oviedo High School</a>." Oviedo High School Reunions. http://www.ohsr.net/about-oviedo-high-school.
Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012.
4-H Club
Aaron Slick
Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick
Aaron Slick From Punkin Crock
Aldred Cone
Alease Lane
Annis C. Thompson
Arthur Metcalf
Audrey Cox
Barbara Lee
Barbara Wheaton
basketball
Bennie Ward
Betty Mikler
Beulah Borgard
Beverly Carter
Bill Meek
Billie Chance
Blanche Duda
Blanche Hart
Bobby Hamil
Bobby Malcolm
Bobby Parker
Brown
Buba Lukas
Buck Gammage
Buddy Mills
Butvh Hastings
C. R. Clonts
cafeteria
Carmel Johnson
Cecil Jackson
Charles Aulin
Charlie Weitmon
Charlotte Beasley
Children of Buttercup Common
Clarence Green
club
Connie Cops the Boss
Cora Bumper
Craig
Crystal Cluett
Daniel Lukas
Dick Grass
Don Knight
Donald Lee
Dorothy Link
Dorothy Rose Link
Douglas Smith
Dusan Lukas
Earl Beasley
education
educator
Edwin Hamil
Elizabeth Farnell
Elizabeth Simmons
Ellen Archer
Eloise Wolfram
Ena Piloian
Evelyn Tindall
Foul Play at Brown's Gone With the Wind
Frances Stine
Frank Bumper
Gail Archer
Gene Gore
Geneva Bailey
Geneva Grantham
George Carter
George Duda
George Jakubcin
Gill Pobb Wilson
Gilman
Gladys May Merridew
Glenn Miller
Grace Jasper
Gritsie
gymnasium
Harold Jordan
Helen E. Leinhart
Henry Gilman
high school
holiday
Home Economics Club
Inez Smith
J. L, Malcolm
J. T. Kieksen
Jack King
Jackie Kasell
James Henry
James Henry cooper
James J. Montague
James Jackson Montague
James Peter Lawton
Jane Jasper
Janes Staley
Jason Gouch
Jean Chance
Joanne Meek
Johnnie Piloian
Josephine Godwin
Joyce Blount
June Marine Durbin
June Mariner
Kathryn Aulin
Kathryn Aulin Bunch
Kenneth Malcolm
L. E. Jordan
La June Estes
Leon Olliff
Lex Abell
Lillian Jakubcin
Lizzie Simmons
Lois Ruddell
Louis Sistrunk
Lucilla "King
Lucy Carter
Lucy King
Lucy Piloian
lunchroom
Luther Mills
Margaret Harper
Marguerite Partin
Marian Stanko
Marie Smith
Marion Marsh
Marjorie Wilkerson
Marlowe Link
Martha Carraway
Martha Moon
Mary Barr
Mary Frances Jordan
Mary Totten
Mattie Pearl Jordan
May Day
maypole
Milan Jakubcin
Miranda Jasper
Mitsie
Nobody Home
Nola Miller
Norma Lee Miller
O'Leary
OHS
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Ollie Dinkleybury
Oviedo
Oviedo Future Farmers
Oviedo Girls' Glee club
Oviedo High School
Paul Jones
Paul Mikler
Paula Dunlap
Peggy Carter
Pennie Mitchem
Peter Lawton
Piano Study
play
Potter Van Zandt
principal
R. F. Cooper
Ray Beasley
Reminiscences of My Early Oiety
Richard Grass
Richard Kasell
Riggs
Rita Haworth
Robert Hamil
Robert Lee
Rosy Berry
Salmagundi
Sarkis Piloian
school
Schuyler Pell
Sherdell Owen
Shirley Morgan
sport
Stene Braddock
student
Sunbonnet Jane
Sunbonnet Jane of Sycamore Lane
superintendent
T. W. Lawton
teacher
Teddy Kimble
The Midnight Ghost
The Oviedian
theater
Toby Simmins
Tommy Staley
Too Busy to Study
Valita Tripp
Virginia Balkcolm
Vivian Wheaton
Walter Teague
Wanda Day
Whittle
Wilbur Gammage
Wilbur Merridew
Wilbur Van Zandt
Wiley Abell
Wilson
Windshield Wiper Swing
World War II
WWII
yearbook
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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.
Document
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Original Format
28-page booklet
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Title
Oviedo, Circa 1960
Alternative Title
Oviedo, Circa 1960
Subject
Oviedo (Fla.)
Housing--Florida
Schools
Elementary schools--United States
Middle schools--Florida
Churches--Florida
Railroads--Florida
Description
A booklet, compiled by the Oviedo Historical Society, featuring historic houses and buildings in Oviedo, Florida. The booklet features historic buildings constructed before 1960, just before the period of expanded housing developments in Oviedo. The oldest homes were constructed in the 1880s.
Type
Text
Source
Original 38-page booklet: Oviedo Historical Society. <em>Oviedo, Circa 1960</em>. 1982: Private Collection of Betty Reagan.
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/147" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society Collection</a>, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 28-page booklet: Oviedo Historical Society<em>Oviedo, Circa 1960</em>. 1982.
Coverage
Oviedo, Florida
Fountainhead Missionary Baptist Church, Oviedo, Florida
Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Oviedo, Florida
Jackson Heights Middle School, Oviedo, Florida
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, Oviedo, Florida
First Baptist Church of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida
Memorial Building, Oviedo, Florida
First United Methodist Church of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo Railroad Depot, Oviedo, Florida
Publisher
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>
Contributor
Reagan, Bettye Jean Aulin
Date Created
1982
Date Copyrighted
1982
Format
application/pdf
Extent
6.94 MB
Medium
28-page booklet
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Geography Teacher
Provenance
Originally published by the <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</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
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
Private Collection of Bettye Reagan
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. A. Myers
A. Bradford Dinsmore
A. D. Sauer, Jr.
A. D. Sauer, Sr.
A. F. Cotton
A. L. Ruddell
A. M. Jones
A. W. Meares
African Methodist Episcopal
Agnes Smith
Alexandria Subdivision
Alice Brannon
Allison
AME
Amos Laster
Andrew Aulin
Andrew Aulin, Jr.
Andrew John McCulley
Andrew Leinhart
Anita King Crawford
Anna Leinhart
Annabelle Linger Lawton
Annette Sullivan Shrumpert
Annie Ethel Lee Carter
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
Antonio Solary
Appleby
Arthur Evans
Arthur Metcalf
Arthur Riles Hunter
August D. Covington
Augusta Clause
Aulin Avenue
Aulin's Addition
B. F. Ward, Jr.
B. F. Wheeler III
B. F. Wheeler, Jr.
B. F. Wheeler, Sr.
B. G. Smith
B. J. Solomon
Bank of Oviedo
Baptists
Bay Street
Ben Blackburn
Ben Jones
Ben Wheeler
Benjamin Franklin Wheeler III
Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Jr.
Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr.
Bertha Huggins
Bertha Leinhart
Bertha P. Dixon
Bessie Fay Myers Fly
Bethany Circle
Betty Colbert
Beverly Hughes Evans
Bill Chance
Bill Jenkins, Jack Jenkins
Black Hammock
Blaine Edwards
Block Youth Building
Bob Cameron
Bob Gibbs
Bob King
Bob Ragsdale
Bob Slavik
Bob Ward
Bobby Standlifer
Bowers
Boyd Clonts
Brewster
Broadway Street
Bub Sloan
Bud Claxton
Butler Court Road
C. D. Crutchfield
C. J. Marshall
C. K. Phillips
C. L. West
C. N. Ogg
C. R. Clonts
C. R. Clonts, Jr.
C. S. Lee
C. T. Edwards
C. T. Niblack
cabins
Calvin Whitney
Carl Farnell
Catherine Young Gore
celery
Central Avenue
Charles Evans
Charles Niblack
Charles P. Williams
Charles Roy Clonts, Jr. Charles Roy Clonts, Sr.
Charles Shaffer
Charles Simeon Lee
Charlotte Lee Lawton
Chase Piano Company
Chester W. Shipley
Christine Leinhart
Chuluota
churches
citrus
city halls
Claire Lee Evans
Claire Lee Wheeler
Clara Deering
Clara Mariner
Clarence Ashe
Clark Street
Cleo Gore Leinhart
Clonts and Staley Block Company
Clyde Holder
Colonial architecture
Congregate Meals Program
construction
Courier Field
Crystal Shores
Curtis Estes
Cyrus B. Dawsey
D. D. Daniels
D. E. Hart
Dan Denmark
Daniel B. Hohn
Daniel Gore
David Corey
David Evans
David Hunter
Dawsey
Deering Harvester Company
Delco
Della Barnett
dentists
Dick Mitchell
Division Avenue
doctors
don Carraway
Don Shaffer
Don Ulrey
Donna Neely
Dora Kelsey
Dorothy Courier
Dorothy Lee
Douglas Jackson
Douglas Philpot
Downtown Oviedo
Dozier's
Drady Mathers
E. C. Harper
E. J. Moughton
E. M. Olliff
E. T. Standlifer
E. W. Stone
Earl Koontz
Edna Staley
education
Edward W. Stoner
Edwin A. Farnell
elementary schools
Elida Slavik
Elizabeth Farnell
Emmett Waltz
Emory Asbell
Ephfrom Whipper
Eric Anderson
Eric Anderson Subdivision
Essie Mae Clonts
Evelyn Alpaugh
Fay Stoner
Federation of Senior citizens Clubs of Seminole County, Inc.
Fellowship Hall
Fernando Daniel
Ferrell Beasley
First Baptist Church of Oviedo
First United Methodist Church of Oviedo
fisher
Florida State Road 419
Florida Technological University
Flournoy Jernigan
Foster Chapel
Fountainhead Baptist Church
Frank C. Morgan
Frank W. Talbott
Frank Wheeler
Franklin Street
Frazier Vail
Fred Dyson
Fred Robbins
Fred Tingley
FTU
Future Farmers of America
G. L. Baker
G. M. Arie
G. S. Abell
G. S. Moon
G. W. Johnson
Gammon and Deering Company
Garden Cove
Garden Street
Garth Bowers
Geneva
Geneva Abell
Geneva Drive
George C. Crawford
George Carlton
George Jakubcin
George K. Hollingsworth
George Lee Lawton
George Means
George Morgan
Georgia Lee Lawton
Georgian-Colonial architecture
Germans
Gladys Basford
Gladys Leinhart
Glen Stoner
Glenda Conley
Glenna B. Stoner
Goldie Eva Beckley Lee
Gordon Pendarivs
Gordon W. Johnson, Jr.
Gove Hill
Graham Avenue
Grant Chapel
Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Grant Chapel AME Church
groves
Guy Lingo
H. B. McCall
H. C. Park
H. R. Spencer, Sr.
Haig
Hamlin
Hansel
Hardem Webb
Harold Jordan
Harry P. Leu Company
Hazel Haley
Helen Leinhart
Helen Terrell
Henry Foster
Henry Jackson
Henry McAlister
Henry Whittier
Henry Wolcott
Herbert McCarley
Herbert Metcalf
Hettie Ragsdale
High Street
Hillcrest Avenue
Hillcrest Drive
Hillcrest Gardens
Holland Construction Company
homes
houses
housing
Howard-Packard Land Company
Howell Williams
Hubert E. Davis
Huggins Brothers, Inc.
Hugh Gregory
Hugh Morris
immigrants
Internal Improvement Fund
Irene Hollenbeck
Irvin Claxton
J. B. Jones
J. B. Jones, Jr.
J. B. Ludlow
J. Emmett Kelsey
J. Enoch Partin
J. H. King
J. H. Lee III
J. H. Lee IV
J. H. Lee, Jr.
J. H. Lee, Sr.
J. H. Staley
J. L. Walker
J. N. Thompson
J. W. Burns
J. W. McIntosh
J. Wes Evans
Jack T. Bryant
Jack Williams, Sr.
Jackson Heights Middle School
Jackson Heights School
Jake Gore
Jamerson Construction Company
James Arthur Partin
James D. Hagin
James Davidson
James Gamble Rogers
James H. Lee
James Hiram Lee III
James Hiram Lee IV
James Hiram Lee, Jr.
James Hiram Lee, Sr.
James J. Egan
James Marion Jones
James Wilson
Jane Cochran Moon
Jane Hill Walker
Jean Jordan
Jeanette Mills
Jenkins Realty Company
Jennifer Adicks
Jennings Neeld
Jerry Jacobs
Jessie Shaffer
Jewel Dean
JHMS
Jim Jones
Jim McGowan
Jim Staley
Jimmy McGowan
Joe Faircloth
John Batts Jones, Sr.
John Branscomb
John Courier
John Drury
John McCulley
John Ridenour
John Smith
John W. Evans, Sr.
Johnie Conley
Johnnie Conley
Johnnie Wright
Johnny Jones
Joseph Leinhart
Josephine Munson
Juanita Beasley
Julia Gaulden
Julia Lee Matheson
Katherine Teague
Kathryn Lawton
Katie Ruddell
King Street
Kinney
Kirby Buckelew
Kirby Grant
Kirkpatrick
L. B. Moore
L. E. Jordan
L. J. Flowers
L. L. Day
L. L. Faulk
Lake Charm
Lake Charm Circle
Lake Charm Fruit Company
Lake Charm Memorial Chapel
Lake Jessup Avenue
Lake Jesup
Langston
Lawton Elementary School
Leah Koontz
Lee Gary
Lee H. Gore
Lena Leinhart
Leon Olliff
Leon Ragsdale
Libby Wainwright
Lillian Lee Lawton
Link Hart
Lloyd Koontz
Lois Jones
Lois Ruddell
Long Lake
Lonnie Metcalf
Loretta E. Hohn
Lottie Lee Lawton
Louis Edward Jordan, Sr.
Louis Leinhart
Louise B. Gore
Louise Brown Gore
Louise Wilson
Lucille Campbell
Lucille Niblack
Lucille Partin Niblack
Lynum Brothers
M. C. Hagen
M. L. Gary
M. L. Wright
M. M. Estes
Madeline Foltz
Mae King
Magnolia Street
Main Street
Margaret Culpepper Wolcott
Margaret Harper
Marguerite Covington
Marguerite Parson Partin
Marion Estes
Marsh harvester
Martha King Spinks
Martha Staley Leinhart
Marvin L. Wright
Mary Alice Aulin
Mary Brannon
Mary C. Wolcott
Mary Etta Chance
Mary Leinhart
Mary Leinhart Wright
Mary Ninde
Mary Young
Max Leinhart
Mead Manor
Meals on Wheels
Mediterranean architecture
Memorial Building
Meredith Brock
Merritt Staley
Methodists
middle schools
Mildred Adicks
Mills M. Lord
Milton Gore
Mimi Wheeler
Minnie King
Minnie Means
Myrtle Street
N. F. Lezette
Nanearl Bradley
Nannie B. Giles
neighborhoods
Nell George Morgan
Nell King Morgan
Nelson and Company
Nita Rawlson
Novella Carter Aulin Driggers
O. Gus Wolcott
O. P. Swope
OES
OHS
Olive Babbitt
Olive Lezette
Oliver Farnell
Oliver Swope
oranges
Oreon Burnett
orlando
Orlando Drive
Ouida Anderson Wolcott
Oviedo
Oviedo City Council
Oviedo City Hall
Oviedo Clinic
Oviedo Department of Public Safety
Oviedo Elementary School
Oviedo High School
Oviedo Historical Society
Oviedo Land Company
Oviedo Oaks
Oviedo School
Oviedo Woman's Club
Oviedo: Biography of a Town
OWC
Owens
P. B. Boston
Patsy A. Booth
Paul M. Campbell
Paul Mikler
Paul Slavik
Peck
Pennie Olliff
Pete McCall
Peter C. H. Pritchard
Peter Helliar
Phil Coree
physicians
pioneers
Plant System
porches
R. B. Black
R. F. Cooper
R. J. Lawton
R. W. Estes
R. W. Lawton
R. W. Whittier
railroad depots
railroads
Ransford C. Pyle
Richard Adicks
Richard Apel
Richfield
Rick Snow
Robert Holloway
Robert L. Ward
Robert Lawton, Jr.
Robert R. Barber
Robert Soka
Roberta Sparks Lingo
Roger Slavik
Rollins College
Ross F. Dunn
Ruby Estes
Ruby Jones
Russell Daniel
Ruth Davidson
Ruth Metcalf
S. E. Kirkland
S. J. Lewis and Company
S. L. Murphy
S. R. Rembert
Sam Stephens
Sam Swope
Samuel L. Robinson
Samuel Lincoln Murphy
Samuel William Swope
Sanford
Sanford and Indian River Railroad
Sans Souci
schools
Schweizer Associates
SCPS
Seminole County Public Schools
Shed Grove
Sky King
Slavia
Smith Street
Solary's wharf
South Florida Railroad
Sparks Lee Clonts Ridenour
Sparks Lee Ridenour
Spencer R. Wainwright
SR 419
St. Hebrew African Methodist Episcopal Church
St. Hebrew AME Church
Stalnick
Stan Tillman
Stanley Brokhausen
Stanley Muller
Stanley T. Muller
Steen Nelson
Steve Somers
Steven Sommers
Stewart Catchell
Stewart Gatchell
Sweetwater Creek
T. C. Brannon
T. L. Lingo, Jr.
T. L. Lingo, Sr.
T. W. Lawton
T. W. Lawton Elementary School
Ted Estes
Tedford
Terry Raburn
Thelma Lee Clonts
Thelma Tew
Theodore Luqueer Mead
Thomas K. Brown
Thomas Moon, Sr.
Thomas Ratliff
Thomas Staley
Thomas Weaton
Thomas Willingham Lawton
Todd Whitney
Tom Deal
Tom Hollingsworth
Tom Purdom
Tom Risher
Tommy Estes
tony Daniels
UCF
University of Central Florida
V. H. Sley
Virginia Mikler
Virginia Staley
W. A. Clark
W. A. Teague
W. B. Williams
W. B. Young
W. C. Alpaugh
W. C. Betsy Anne Carter Apel
W. G. Mikell
W. H. Martin
W. J. Lawton
W. J. Varn
W. K. Kimble
W. P. Carter
W. Rex Clonts
W. T. Chance
W. W. Young
Wallace Sommerville
Walter A. Teague
Walter Cart
Walter Carter
Walter Eugene Olliff
Walter Guynn
Walter Gwynn
Warren McCall
Wayne Standlifer
Whispering Oaks
Wiley Abell
William Browning
William H. Deering
William Hyatt
William Marr
William R. Marr
William Wiley Lee
William X. Ninde
Willie Poole
Willis
Winborn Joseph Lawton
Windmeadow Farms
Winter Park
Women's Society for Christian Service
Wyatt L. Wyatt
Wyatt Lawrence Wyatt
Yarborough
Young Harris
Zack Spinks
Zetta Leinhart
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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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Title
Happy Birthday Oviedo Woman's Club
Alternative Title
Oviedo Woman's Club Birthday
Subject
Oviedo (Fla.)
Clubs--United States
Description
A history written by Helen Leinhart chronicling the history of the Oviedo Woman's Club (OWC), which was founded in 1906 as the Oviedo Magazine Club by seven charter members: H. B. McCall, Edith Meade, Georgia Lee Wheeler, Lillian Lee Lawton, Mattie Aulin Wheeler, Milcah Yonge, and Mary King. The first clubhouse was constructed in 1914 and also served as Oviedo's first library. In 1916, the club joined the FFWC and officially changed its name to the Oviedo Woman's Club. In 1923, the woman's club was federated under the umbrella of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs (GFWC). A new clubhouse was built in 1961 on property donated by R. L. Croom, a former member, which is located at 414 King Street. The Oviedo Woman's Club is involved in many civic projects, including the annual Great Day in the Country Arts and Crafts Festival, the Spring Fundraiser, Tasting Luncheons, and Celebrate Spring Teas.
Type
Text
Source
Original document by Helen Leinhart, 1972: Private Collection of Beatrice Gestrich.
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/147" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society Collection</a>, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original document by Helen Leinhart, 1972.
Coverage
Oviedo Woman's Club, Oviedo, Florida
Creator
Leinhart, Helen
Contributor
<a href="http://www.oviedowomansclub.org/" target="_blank">Oviedo Woman's Club</a>
Gestrich, Beatrice
Date Created
1972
Format
application/pdf
Medium
3-page typewritten document
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Helen Leinhart.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="http://www.oviedowomansclub.org/" target="_blank">Oviedo Woman's Club</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
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
Private Collection of Beatrice Gestrich
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.oviedowomansclub.org/our-community/our-history.html" target="_blank">Our History</a>." Oviedo Woman's Club. http://www.oviedowomansclub.org/our-community/our-history.html.
4th of July
Allied Forces
Allies
American Red Cross
Art Department
B. F. Wheeler
B. F. Wheeler, Sr.
Babe Ruth League
Brock's Pond
Brownie Troop
C. R. Clonts
Christmas
Chuluota Road
Cindy Nemiec
Citizens Bank of Oviedo
City of Oviedo
civic club
Civic Committee
Claire Evans
club
clubhouse
Education Department
Fellowship Hall
FFWC
First Methodist Church
Florida Federation of Women's Clubs
Florida Zoological Society
Fourth of July
General Federation of Woman's Clubs
GFWC
Golden Anniversary Tea
Hacienda Girls Rank
Harden Webb
Helen Leinhart
Hungary
income tax
Independence Day
Jean Jordan
Jo Piercy
Katherine Teague
Lake Charm
Lake Jessup Avenue
Lee Wheeler
Lillian Della Lee Lawton
Louise Martin
Luttle Rock, Arkansas
March of Dimes
Market Day
McCall
Mead
Mead Mannor Association
Mildred Ulrey
Nancy Beasley
OACD
OHS
Oviedo
Oviedo Area Combined Drive
Oviedo High School
Oviedo Historical Society
Oviedo Magazine Club
Oviedo Woman's Club
OWC
Panama Canal
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
R. W. Estes
Sandy Anderson
Sanford Road
Seminole County
Seminole Youth Ranch
Sherrill Ingram
Slavia
Smorgasboard-Seminole County Health Unit for Mental Health
Sunland
Sweetwater Park
Tasting Luncheon
taxes
Titanic
United Fund Drives
Vienna, Austria
Vietnam
Vietnam War
W. J. Lawton, Sr.
W. T. Lawton
William McKinley
Winborn Joseph Lawton, Sr.
Woman's Club
women
World War I
World War II
WWI
WWII
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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.
Document
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Title
Citizens Bank Founded in 1946
Alternative Title
Citizens Bank Founded in 1946
Subject
Oviedo (Fla.)
Banks and banking--Florida
Description
<em>The Oviedo Heritage</em>, a supplement for <em>The Oviedo Outlook</em>, published on June 30, 1977. This article chronicles the history of the Citizens Bank of Oviedo, which Originally opened on East Broadway Street on July 2, 1946. The land on which the bank sits was Originally the Bill Browning celery farm. The Citizens Bank of Oviedo took in over half a million dollars in deposits on its first day, with B. F. Wheeler as president, C. R. Clonts as vice president, and Charles Shaffer as the cashier. In 1949, the bank moved to the Memorial Building, which is located at 38 South Central Avenue. On March 25, 1974, the Citizens' Bank of Oviedo reopened at 156 Geneva Drive. The bank is now the Citizens' Bank of Florida with locations throughout Seminole County.
Type
Text
Source
Original newspaper article: Neely, Larry. "Citizens Bank Founded in 1946." <em>The Oviedo Heritage</em>, June 30, 1977: <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>, Oviedo, Florida.
Is Part Of
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/5702" target="_blank">The Oviedo Heritage '77, June 30, 1977</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/5702.
<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.
<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 newspaper article: Neely, Larry. "Citizens Bank Founded in 1946." <em>The Oviedo Heritage</em>, June 30, 1977.
Coverage
Citizens Bank of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida
Creator
Neely, Larry
Publisher
<em>The Oviedo Outlook</em>
Date Created
ca. 1977-06-30
Date Issued
1977-06-30
Date Copyrighted
1977-06-30
Format
image/jpg
Extent
258 KB
Medium
1 newspaper article
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Larry Neely and 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
Rajtar, Steve. "<a href="http://www.geocities.ws/krdvry/hikeplans/oviedo/planoviedo.html" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Trail</a>". Steve Rajtar. http://www.geocities.ws/krdvry/hikeplans/oviedo/planoviedo.html.
Andrew Duda, Jr.
Andy Duda, Jr.
B. F. Wheeler, Sr.
banking
banks
Ben Jones
Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr.
Broadway Street
C. R. Clonts
Citizens Bank of Oviedo
F. W. Talbott
J. H. Lee
John Hiram Lee
Larry Neely
Lawton Elementary School
Olliff's Barber and Style Shop
Oviedo
Oviedo City Hall
Oviedo High School
Pot Latch
S. F. Long
T. W. Lawton
T.W. Lawton Elementary School
The Oviedo Heritage
The Oviedo Outlook
Thomas Willington Lawton
W. G. Kilbee
W. J. Martin
World War II
WWII
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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.
Document
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Original Format
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Title
The Oviedo Heritage '77, June 30, 1977
Alternative Title
The Oviedo Heritage '77
Subject
Oviedo (Fla.)
Description
<em>The Oviedo Heritage</em>, a supplement for <em>The Oviedo Outlook</em>, published on June 30, 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 the history of Oviedo, Andrew Duda and his family, the history of the Citizens Bank of Oviedo, and the life of Dr. Theodore Luqueer Mead (1852-1936).
Type
Text
Source
Original 8-page newspaper supplement: <em>The Oviedo Heritage</em>, June 30, 1977: <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>, Oviedo, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
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 supplement: <em>The Oviedo Heritage</em>, June 30, 1977.
Coverage
Oviedo, Florida
Lake Charm, Oviedo, Florida
First Baptist Church of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida
First United Methodist Church of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida
Wheeler Fertilizer Plant, Oviedo, Florida
Gwynn's Cafe, Oviedo, Florida
Black Hammock, Oviedo, Florida
Florida Technological University, Orlando, Florida
Oviedo Railroad Depot, Oviedo, Florida
A. Duda and Sons Celery Farm, Slavia, Florida
Citizens Bank of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida
Mead Manor, Oviedo, Florida
Publisher
<em>The Oviedo Outlook</em>
Date Created
ca. 1977-06-30
Date Issued
1977-06-30
Date Copyrighted
1977-06-30
Format
application/pdf
Extent
1.36 MB
Medium
8-page newspaper supplement
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
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.
4th of July
A. Duda and Sons, Inc.
ACL
Andrew Aulin, Sr.
Andrew Duda
Andrew Duda, Jr.
Andy Duda, Jr.
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
B. F. Wheeler, Sr.
Ben Jones
Ben Ward Agency, Inc.
Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr.
Black Hammock
Black Tuesday
Boy Scouts of America
Broadway Street
C. R. Clonts
C. R. Clonts and Associated Growers
Central Avenue
Citizens Bank of Oviedo
Donna Neely
Downtown Oviedo
Edith Mead
F. W. Talbott
Ferdinand Duda
First Baptist Church of Oviedo
First United Methodist Church of Oviedo
Florida Technological University
Fourth of July
FTU
Great Crash
Great Depression
Greyhound Lines, Inc.
Gwynn
Gwynn's Cafe
Henry Foster
Independence Day
J. B. Jones
J. B. Jones and Brothers
J. H. Lee
John Duda
John Hiram Lee
Jones Grocery
Jonnie Conley
Joseph Watts
July 4th
July Fourth
Katherine Duda
Lake Apopka
Lake Charm
Lake Jessup
Lake Jessup Settlement
Larry Neely
Lee and Todd Real Estate Company
Mead Botanical Garden
Mead Manor
Nelson and Company, Inc.
OHS
Old Time History of By Gone Days of Lake Jessup Settlement
Olliff's Barber and Style Shop
orlando
Oviedo
Oviedo City Hall
Oviedo Historical Society
Oviedo Railroad Depot
Peters Shoes
Pot Latch
R. W. Estes
Randy Noles
S. F. Long
SAL
Seaboard Air Line railroads
Seminole County
Slavia
Solaria's Wharf
Southland Produce
Spencer's Store
Steen Nelson
Stock Market Crash of 1929
Sweetwater Park
T. L. Mead
T. W. Lawton
The Oviedo Heritage
The Oviedo Outlook
Theodore Luqueer Mead
Thomas Willington Lawton
W. G. Kilbee
W. J. Martin
Wall Street Crash of 1929
Wheeler Fertilizer
World War II
WWII
Zellwood
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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.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
529-page ledger
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Title
R. W. Estes Celery Company Ledger, 1947-1950
Alternative Title
R. W. Estes Celery Company Ledger
Subject
Oviedo (Fla.)
Agriculture--Florida
Farming
Farms--Florida
Farmers--Southern States
Celery
Celery industry
Shipping--Florida
Accounting--United States
Description
An account ledger for the R. W. Estes Celery Company, Estes' personal accounts, and the personal accounts of Estes' wife, Ruth H. Estes. R. W. Estes Celery Company was a celery growing and shipping business in Oviedo, Florida. The R. W. Estes Celery Company Precooler Historic District is located at 159 North Central Avenue and was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 2001.
Type
Text
Source
Original ledger: <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>, Oviedo, Florida.
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 ledger.
Coverage
R. W. Estes Celery Company, Oviedo, Florida
Creator
R. W. Estes Celery Company
Contributor
Sladek, Megan
Date Created
ca. 1947-1950
Format
application/pdf
Extent
87.1 MB
Medium
529-page ledger
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by R. W. Estes Celery Company.
Owned by Megan Sladek.
Donated to the <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a> in 2015.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held the <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</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
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://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/FL/Seminole/districts.html" target="_blank">FLORIDA - Seminole County - Historic Districts </a>." National Register of Historic Places. http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/FL/Seminole/districts.html.
. A. Harris
A. Aulin
A. Duda and Sons
A. E. Bramble and Son
A. H. Malcom Company
A. J. Lossing Transfer and Storage
A. J. Peterson
A. K. Rossetter
A. W. Towne Agency
Abbott & Cobb
ACL
Adkins and Adkins Company
agriculture
Airplane Dusting Service of Zellwood
Alex Leinhart
American Red Cross
American Rug and Linoleum Company
Anderson Brothers
Andrew Carraway Agency
Annie C. Merriweather
Annie Laura Bennett
Annie May Davis
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
Arch Eug. and Construction Company
Asa Pendleton
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
Austin, Inc.
B. E. Taylor
B. J. Ward
B. Jones
Bailey Motor Company
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Bank of Zephyrhills
Beggs Company
Ben G. Wainwright
Ben Jones
Ben Jones Drug Company
Bertha Mason
Bethel Methodist Church
Bill Crey
Bill Slater
Bisese & Console
Black Hammock Drainage Fund
Block B
Blunk Furniture Company
BO
Bob Jones University
Borden's Dairy
Boy Scouts of American
Brainard and Horne Trucking Company
Britt Tractor Company
Brown and Loe, Inc.
Buster Henderson
Byron Thompson and Company, Inc.
C. D. Beggs
C. G. Rakeshaw
C. G. Shaffer
C. Henderson
C. O. Smith
C. R. Clonts
C. R. Clonts and Associates
C. T. Nublack
C. T. Walker Radiator Shop
C. W. Baker
cabbage
California Spray and Chew Company
Camp Bearwalla
Carraway & Smothers
Caruso Fruit Distributors
celery
Celery City Printing Company
celery industry
Cell-u-Mop Company
Central Avenue
Central City Bag Company
Central Florida Bag Exchange
Central Florida Quick Freeze and Storage Company
Charles G. Shaffer
Charles J. Collins
Charles T. Niblack
Chase and Company
Cherrito Celery Company
Chester D. Hiatt
Citizens Bank of Oviedo
City Ice and Fuel Company
Clarence Ashe
Clarence Henderson
Cleveland Celery Market
Clontz Zellwood Farms
Commissioner on Claims
Community Church
Community Produce Company
Consumers Lumber and Veneer Company, Inc.
Cook's Pharmacy
Cook's Prescription Stop
Cooperative Inspection Fund
Crawford Amoco Service
D. Caruise
D. R. Ulrey
D. Rubey
D'Arrigo Brothers Company
Demase and Manna
Dick Harrow
Dorothy Pulmley
DOT
Duda Tire Sales, Inc.
Dunham concrete Company
E. G. Kilpatrick, Jr.
E. L. Kempf
E. P. Collins
E. Williams
Earl Higgingbotham
Earnest Ingram
Eastwest Produce
Econlockhatchee Hunt Club
Elberta Crate and Box Company
Eleanor Lotz
Elwyn Evans
Estes, Ulrey, & Gore
Evelyn Williams
F. A. Long Farm
F. Washington
Falkner, Inc.
farm
Farm and Home Irrigation Supplies
Farm and Home Machinery Company, Inc.
farmer
farming
Farnell's Grocery
feed
Fernald Laughton
fertilizer
Fields Firestone Store
Firestone Stores, Inc.
First National Bank
First National Bank of Orlando
Florida Bank and Trust Company
Florida Farmer Corporation
Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association
Florida Fruit Digest Company
Florida Power Corporation
Florida State Bank
Florida State Bank of Sanford
flower
Food Machinery Corporation
Frank Marshall
Fred Diplin
Fred Washington
freight
Frisco
G. C. Williams
G. J. Rhodes
G. M. Arie
Garrett-Holmes, Inc.
George A. Speer, Jr.
George Armistead Smathers
George D. Daudes
George H. Spohn
George Jakobian
Georgia Crate and Basket Company
Gibbs Corporation
Gibbs Machine Company Shop
Good Neighbors Magazine
Grace C. Hardy
Grady Page
Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Grant Chapel AME Church
Great Southern Stores, Inc.
grower
Growers and Shippers League of Florida
growing
Gulf Fertilizer Company
H. & W. B. Drew Company
H. M. Gleason
H. P. Newhouse
H. P. Newhouse Celery Company
H. T. Kitson
H. W. Lowell
Haley Stewart Electric Company
Halloway Concrete Products
Harry Becker
Harry Beeker and Company
Harry P. Leu
Hays and Russell, Inc.
Hazel W. Nowell
Heintzelman Motors, Inc,
Helen E. Leinhart
Henry A. Russell Seed Company
Henry Detriville
Hern's Photo Supply
Hiatt's Dairy
Hill Implement Company
Hinky Dinky Stores
Howard Gould
Howard Young
Hubert Lee Gray
Hungerford School
Hunt Mercury Company
Hunt's Garage
Hunt's Tuxedo Feed Store
Hutchinson Tractor Equipment Company
ICRR
Illinois Central Railroad
Independent Supply Company
Industrial Equipment Company
insecticide
insurance
Internal Revenue Service
Ira Tossie
IRS
J. A. Harris
J. Baker
J. C. Faircloth
J. C. Hutchinson
J. C. Kassell
J. D. Dillon and Sous Stores Company
J. D. Driggers
J. D. Moore
J. E. Clontz
J. E. Jackson
J. F. Wilson
J. Frank Wilson
J. Miller
J. R. Chappell
J. W. Craddock
J. William Martin
J. Y. Harris
Jack C. Kassell
Jack C. Kendall
Jack F. Wakeman
Jack Gore
James Apothecary
James Craddock
James Gilbert Lyerly
James H. Gut Agency
James Miller
Jim Wilson
Jimmie Cowan
Joe Leinhart
Joe Merritt
Joe Priest
John A. Eick
John Deere
John L. Galloway
John Miceli
John Rocher Chappell
Jones and McLaughlin Trucking Service
Jones Prescription Shop
Joseph L. Stecher
K. Brown
K. C. Baker
Karl Daul
Karl Schneeder
Kay Estes
Kennong Bearing Service
Kilgore Seed Company
Kingman and Hearty, Inc.
Kissam Builders Supply Company
Kooter Brown
Krick Weather Service, Inc. J. H. Daniell
Kroger Company
L. A. Hardy
L. W. Wilkerson
labor
LaJune Estes
Lake Charm Fruit Company
Lake Jessup
Lakeland Cash Feed Company
Lee Brothers
Lee Daniels
Leight Banana Case Company
Leinhart Floral Gardens
Leland Chubb, Jr.
Lena I. Hunt
Levy Grant
Lloyd's Furniture Company
Loniel E. Metcalf
Lonnie Wilkerson
Lot 26
Lot 3
Lot 45
Louis Roesch Company
lumber
M. C. Hagan
M. L. Gore
M. M. Estes
M. P. Mickler Company, Inc. G. M. Arie
M. Roth
M. Vinson
Mallory
Mamie Allen
Mandell
March of Dimes
Martin
Martin Equipment Company
Mary I. Young
Mary King
Masonic Home Endowment Fund
Mathers
Mattie McCoy
Max Leinhart
Medlock Tractor Company
Megan Sladek
Mercury 6
Merrill Wattles
Methodist Church of Oviedo
Mill Suppliers, Inv.
Millikan Brothers Garage
Milton Gore
Miracle Concrete Company
Mitchell Company
Monroe Vinson
Montgomery Ward Company
Morgan
Morgan Tire and Battery Company
Mount Zion Baptist Church
National Bellas Hess
National Marketing Company
National Society for Crippled Children
Nelson and Company, Inc.
New York Life Insurance Company
New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company
O. P. Hendon
O'Neal Branch Company
Orange Belt Truck and Track company
Orange Memorial Hospital
Orlando Farm Equipment Store
Orlando Forge
Orlando Office Supply Company
Oviedo
Oviedo Baseball Club
Oviedo Drug Company
Oviedo Farm Equipment Store
Oviedo Garage
Oviedo Lumber and Supply Company
Oviedo Lumber Company
Oviedo School
Oviedo Service Station
P. C. McMichen
P. C. McMicher
P. H. Lansing's Garage
P. I. Oviedo Drug Store for Medicine
Patrick Fruit Company
Paul E. Mary
Paul W. Heasley
Paymaser Corporation
payroll
pecan
Pennie Olliff
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pentland and Gray
Pere Marquette
Perkinson-Robison
Peter P. Volante
Peter P. Volaute
Peter S. Schaulan
Phillip Zwigg
Pioneer Fruit
Plywood Industries, Inc.
Produce Reporter Company
Prudential Insurance Company
Public Relations Service
R. C. DeGuehery
R. H. Johnson
R. K. Evans
R. L. Ragsdale
R. L. Scarick
R. L. Slavik
R. L. Stephens
R. N. Fisk Company
R. R. Bass
R. R. Stephens
R. S. Carlson
R. S. Woodruff
R. W. Estes
R. W. Estes Celery Company
Ralph Sirianni
Ratliff and Sons
Ray Clontz, Jr.
Remington-Rend, Inc.
Reynolds Produce company
Rice, Frew, and Rice Company, Inc.
Richard Allen
Richard H. Walker, Jr.
Roger W. Gidley
Rome Lincoln Mercury company
Ruby H. Estes
Russell R. Jones
Rutland's
S. E. Parker
S. F. Long
SAL
Salvation Army
Samuel P. Mandell
San Juan Drug company
Sanford Produce Company
Sarah Vinson
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Sears, Roebuick, and Company
Seatt Mill Work Company
Seminole County Chamber of Commerce
Seminole County Farm Bureau
Seminole County Motors
Seminole County Tuberculosis Health Association
Seminole Truck and Tractor Company
Senter Brothers
Seventeen Magazine
Sherman Concrete Company
shipper
shipping
Smathers for Senate Club
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Southern Chemicals, Inc.
Southern Crate and Veneer Company
Southern Pipe and Supply company
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
Standard Growers' Association
Standard Oil Company
Stanley P. Curtis
Stephens Brothers
Steward
Stock Yard District Agency
Strickland-Morrison, Inc.
Super Concrete, Inc.
Swift and Company
T. Cobb
Texas Company
Thad L. Lingo
The Lions club
The Orlando Morning Star Sentinel
The Sanford Herald
The Shoe Box
Theodore Glassmire
Thomas H. Daniell
Thomas H. Daniell, Jr.
Thomas Lumber and Supply Company
Thomas Moon
Tilden
Tilden Tiling
Title Guaranty and Abstract Company of Sanford
Town of Oviedo
Treasurer of the United States
U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue
U.S. Department of the Treasury
USDOT
V. H. Slay
W. A. Meek
W. A. Teague
W. C. Hutchinson
W. F. Maulding
W. G. Kilby
W. J. Chance
W. j. Flowers
W. J. Lawton
W. L. Daniels
W. T. Whitehead
W. Vincent Roberts
wage
Walker Fertilizer Company
Walton Wall
Ward's Garage
Ward's Garage and Filing Station
warehouse
warehousing
Wesco Foods
Wesley Reddick
Wesleyan College
Western Union Telegraph Company
Wheeler
William C. Hutchinson
William Enderlsin and Company
Willie Cray
Willie Daniell
Wilson-Horne
Winpark Roofing company
Womarath
Woody's Radio Shop
Yoriville
Young Harris Supply Company
Yowell-Drew Ivey Company
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Title
Linda McKnight Batman Oral History Project Collection
Alternative Title
Linda McKnight Batman Collection
Subject
Ocala (Fla.)
Orlando (Fla.)
Oviedo (Fla.)
Port Tampa (Fla.)
Sanford (Fla.)
Silver Springs (Fla.)
Titusville (Fla.)
Zellwood (Fla.)
Description
Collection of oral histories depicting the history of Seminole County, Florida. The project was funded by Linda McKnight Batman, a former teacher, historian, and Vice President of the State of Florida Commission on Ethics.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>
External Reference
<span>Museum of Seminole County History, and University of Central Florida. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/744676869" target="_blank"><em>Researcher's Guide to Seminole County Oral Histories: Linda McKnight Batman Oral History Project</em></a><span>. [Sanford, Fla.]: Museum of Seminole County History, 2010.</span>
Contributor
<a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>
Coverage
Seminole County, Florida
Ocala, Florida
Oviedo, Florida
Port Tampa, Florida
Sanford, Florida
Silver Springs, Florida
Titusville, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
Linda McKnight Batman Oral History Project
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
Morris, Joseph
Interviewee
Clonts, Rex, Jr.
Location
Rex Clonts, Jr.'s home in Florida
Bit Rate/Frequency
1411kpbs
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Title
Oral History of Rex Clonts, Jr.
Alternative Title
Oral History, Clonts
Subject
Oviedo (Fla.)
Celery
Agriculture--Florida
Zellwood (Fla.)
Citrus--Florida
Cattle--Florida
Ants--United States
Description
An oral history of Rex Clonts, Jr., conducted by Joseph Morris on November 2, 2011. Clonts was born in Orlando, Florida, but he was raised in Oviedo. In the interview, Clonts discusses his family's work in agriculture, celery farming, how Oviedo has changed over time, the effect of Walt Disney World and the University of Central Florida (UCF) on the region, the citrus and cattle industries, the relationship between the Oviedo community and the Naval Air Station Sanford (NAS Sanford), and fire ants in Florida.
Table Of Contents
0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:40 Family background in agriculture
0:11:32 Celery farming
0:12:06 RECORDING CUTS OFF
0:12:07 Celery farming
0:20:23 Bleaching celery
0:25:34 Childhood memories of mules
0:29:13 Working in the fields
0:31:01 How Oviedo has changed over time
0:33:13 Arrival of Walt Disney World and the University of Central Florida
0:38:11 Evolution of the citrus industry
0:42:27 Central Florida weather
0:43:28 Cattle industry
0:45:19 College education
0:45:46 Plane crash near Oviedo High School
0:48:58 Relationship between the Oviedo community and the Sanford Naval Training Center
0:50:40 Fire ants in Florida
0:55:06 Closing remarks
Abstract
Oral history interview of Rex Clonts, Jr. Interview conducted by Joseph Morris at Clonts' home in Florida.
Type
Sound
Source
Original 55-minute and 16-second oral history: Clonts, Rex, Jr. Interviewed by Joseph Morris. November 2, 2011. Audio record available. <a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>, Sanford, Florida.
Requires
Multimedia software, such as <a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" target="_blank"> QuickTime</a>.
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Is Part Of
<a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>, Sanford, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/123" target="_blank">Linda McKnight Batman Oral History Project Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Coverage
Oviedo, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Black Hammock, Oviedo, Florida
Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
Naval Air Station Sanford, Sanford, Florida
Creator
Morris, Joseph
Clonts, Rex, Jr.
Date Created
2011-11-02
Date Modified
2014-09-09
Date Copyrighted
2011-11-02
Format
audio/wav
application/pdf
Extent
557 MB
151 KB
Medium
55-minute and 16-second audio recording
18-page typed transcript
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Geography Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Joseph Morris.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</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>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3" target="_blank">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.
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.
Transcript
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>It is November 2, 2011, and I'm talking to Rex Clonts[, Jr.] at his residence. I am Joseph Morris, representing the Linda McKnight Batman Oral History Project for the Historical Society of Central Florida. Mr. Clonts, could you tell us a little about your life?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, I was born in 1949 in the hospital, in Orange Memorial Hospital in Orlando, to Rex Clonts, Sr., my dad, and my mother, Thelma Lee Clonts. I'm gonna talk a little bit about their life, if that's okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Perfect, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>My dad came to Oviedo riding in the lap of his mother—he was one year old, age of one—in a Model A Ford, from north Georgia in 1937, I believe. And my mother was born here on Lake Charm in Oviedo. They both passed on rather recently. They—so, basically, both lifelong residents of Oviedo. And after the war [World War II] they married, and I'm the oldest of their five children. Four of us still live right here in Seminole County, and have one sister who lives in Cartersville, Georgia. </p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>What kind of jobs did your parents do while they lived in Oviedo, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Their families were in agriculture. Oh, let me start over. Let me start back just a little bit. My mother's family had—her grandfather had moved down here in the 1880s, and her father—my grandfather—C. S. Lee, was born here on Lake Charm in Oviedo. And his dad was in agriculture, taking care of citrus trees. And so my grandfather was always in the citrus, vegetable, and cattle business. And so my mother was familiar with all those endeavors coming up, and it was natural that she married a farmer—my father. His father also had begun farming shortly after arriving in Oviedo. </p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Same type of farming, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Both of them were vegetable farmers growing celery.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>They grew some other crops from time to time, but specialized in celery farming. And so—growing up here—that's what my family did. We had some orange groves, but the majority of the family focus was on the vegetable farming operation. C. R. Clonts Associated Growers was the company that my grandfather started in the early 1940s, and at one time we farmed over 200 acres of celery right here in eastern Seminole County-Oviedo area. You got a mosquito on your cheek. Got him.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Thank you, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Celery farming was extremely profitable, lucrative during the early '30s and '40s. Sort of the heyday of the Oviedo celery industry. So their timing was good. But over—after the war, when all the boys came home from the war, and a lot more celery was being grown in the United States, markets went down. Prices went down. The small farms here in Oviedo weren't as easy to operate—weren't as efficient. And so my father and grandfather purchased land in Zellwood—in the Zellwood muck area on Lake Apopka. And they did that in anticipation of needing to be having a more modern, large, contiguous farm. So they purchased that in the year I was born, in 1949. So when I grew up, we were farming both places. My father was farming both—multiple small farms here around Oviedo—Black Hammock, Mitchell Hammock, the Slavia area—and we were raising vegetables at our Zellwood farm. And that was 650 acres. And as a child, I remember going over, and every year they would clear up another portion of that farm. So they started by farming just 40 acres, and then over about another 10 or 12 years, they cleared the rest of it so that they could farm all 650 acres over there.</p>
<p class="Body">When I went off to college, I specifically—I went to school so that I wouldn't be a farmer. I could have stayed home and been a farmer. So I was planning on working in the business world, and just before I graduated realized the one business I could control was coming back here, taking over the family farm. And so I came back and joined actively working full-time in 1971, when I got out of college. And I moved over to Apopka and ran that Zellwood farm. We grew celery, lettuce, carrots, sweet corn, occasionally onions and parsley—several crops over the years, but the staple was always celery, sweet corn, and carrots. And in about 1978, we closed down our last Oviedo farm. Up until that time, we'd been farming both places, but we closed that down, and the last farm land that we were actively farming is now—is in Mitchell Hammock—is now a sod farm along Mitchell Hammock in between Mitchell Hammock and Chapman Roads. So, no longer used for vegetables. Family still owns the land, but we don't farm vegetables anymore.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. So your family's no longer in the farming business, but they were in the farming business up until 1978?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts <br /></strong>Well, we still were in business here in several ways. We always had orange groves here. </p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>And we have cattle ranches.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Those were my follow-up questions.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah. You know, you'd find most people that had been multi-generational in the vegetable business in Central Florida also have had orange groves and cattle, because the three just naturally go together here. And you can, if you're successful in one, you're able to be successful in the other, usually.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>How come they go together like that, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, vegetables are very seasonal, so, you know, you've got a fall crop and a spring crop, but you got time on your hands during the other portions of the year. So orange grove tends to be more year-round work, but is not as intensive as vegetable farming, so you can sort of work the two together. And then if you've been successful in the vegetable business, usually you reinvest in land, and very often the best use for that land is cattle. Only certain types of land are good vegetable land, but cattle you can graze just about anywhere in Central Florida.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. Could you give us a little insight into how you grow vegetables—celery in particular, citrus in particular—like the methods of how you would go about it?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Celery's, in nature, celery grows, um—stop it.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Sure thing, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. Would you like to continue?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah. Celery in Central Florida is—the seed is planted in the fall, and it’s planted in seed beds so that you can grow a large number of plants in a small, controlled area. You can herbicide them. You can control the irrigation. And as those seeds—because celery seeds are a very difficult seed to sprout. It’s not much larger than a large fleck of pepper, and takes a long time to germinate to get any substantial size, and so we would start planting seed in August. But because that seed is so tender, we would oftentimes cover those plants.</p>
<p class="Body">First of all, laid burlap out as soon as you rolled the seed down out on the ground, and let the seed actually germinate under the burlap where it would be cooler and moister. You kept the ground moist with subsurface irrigation, and actually surface irrigation between the beds to keep that environment just right for those little seeds to germinate. And then you would remove the sacks after the green—after the seeds germinated and started to show the first leaves. And we would grow them in the seed bed for about four months, and then we would transplant those plants, pull them up by the root, knock the majority of the dirt off the root, and pack them in boxes, take them to the production field. And we used a New Holland transplanter, which is a fairly simple machine that, as it’s pulled through the field, opens up a furrow, and it has a wheel with a set of fingers on it, and you can put the plants one at a time in the notches in the wheel, and as it goes around and puts the root in that furrow, it releases that plant. And we would have a bank of six of these wheels on the back of a tractor-drawn machine, and go through the field and transplant—we called it “setting”—the celery plants in the field. And from that point, they got immediately irrigated with overhead irrigation so that the ground got packed good[sic] around the roots, and they got a good start. Then it took anywhere from 75 to 90—and if the weather was cold, maybe 100—days to produce that crop. So growing celery’s four months in the seed bed, and three months in the field. It’s a long cycle, especially when you consider that in the off-time you’re having. Someone usually would gather seed from an arid region like Utah or California. Had our seed grown. So between the production of seed and the planting of seed and the growing of the crop, was just about a year-round endeavor. And we did all our harvesting in March, April, May, and June.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Why did you transplant it from the seed bed to the production area? What was the difference between—is it soil?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>No. Well, yes. It did happen to be different soil, but you could take ten acres of seed beds and grow enough plants for 200 acres of field production, and so was much less expensive to take care of that—to do the fungicide, and the weeding, and keeping the insects off of it on ten acres. And then you—when you pull those plants and spread them out where they would get to a large stalk, planted them at the right distance apart, you could have 200 acres of celery out of that. You only had three months to take care of that 200 acres.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Oh, okay, sir. So it was easier to guard and protect them when they were younger that way?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah, much easier, much less expensive to protect them. The transplanting operation was expensive, but it was not nearly as expensive as it would have been trying to put those plants—to put those seeds directly in the field and take care of them the whole seven months it took to grow that. And you could, also when that—the seed beds—that ten acres that that seed bed was on…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris <br /></strong>Mosquito’s trying to—he’s gone. He’s just scouting you out, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>The ten acres that seed beds are on is very—you intensely farm that, and one of the preparations of doing that intense farming—this will keep the mosquitoes out—is that you level that land meticulously. You tried to—you ran a very intricate irrigation system all tile-drained, and you used—your seed bed land was your most prized possession in the celery business. That seed bed—a good seed bed—plot that was the right consistency of soil and the right ability to not only hold moisture, but to get rid of moisture when you had too much rain—to get rid of excessive rainfall—was very important. So celery farmers did a lot of work to try to get their seed bed just perfect and have the right plot of land to do that with.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>So that was pretty common then, between celery farmers?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah. Every celery farmer in the state had their own seed beds. And now seed—most celery seed or a good portion of it—is grown in greenhouses. It’s grown in plant trays—in the trays of plants in greenhouses. So it’s got much more of a controlled environment to grow in now, than when we were growing them outside. But still the best plants are the ones grown outdoors. It’s just a lot tougher, a lot more work.<strong> </strong></p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. Did you ever bleach the plants—whiten them?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>That was a practice that kind of came to an end in the mid-1940s. Until then, yes. They took the boards and put down the sides of celery, at least a portion of it, and they would bleach it. I remember them doing that as a child—I shouldn’t say that. I remember them talking about it, but I don’t actually remember seeing it.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. But why did they do that? I personally don’t understand.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>It was a practice that—I don’t know this for sure—but I think that it allowed celery to be harvested, and stored in root cellars, and carried much longer through the year, than if celery were left green and packed away and stored. You know, a lot of the original celery growers were Upstate New York and Michigan. In the North, when they grew celery, they grew it in the late summer, harvested it, and stored it, and shipped it out little by little during the wintertime. And so people would traditionally take celery, put it in a root cellar back in the—back before refrigeration. And it was very important to try to preserve that as long as you could before so that you had vegetables, and if you stored potatoes, and everything that you harvested in the fall, you stored and ate on it as long as you could. We’re not used to that nowadays. Nowadays you go to a supermarket and they got, you know, just about every vegetable year-round, but that’s just happened in my lifetime. Prior to that and prior to refrigeration in the early part of the 1900s, vegetables were very seasonal. And so you had an excess—you had an abundance at harvest time—you tried to store that as long as you could. And bleached celery would store better than green celery.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>That’s the reason. That’s the long-winded explanation for bleaching. And because it traditionally had been bleached, even after refrigeration came along in the early part of the 1900s, celery was—had always—people were used to eating bleached celery, so that’s the way it was done. That was phased out, and my understanding is that the military, right before World War II, came out with a report that said green celery was better for you than bleached celery—was more nutritious. And that one report was sort of the tipping point. They had been up until then, for the few years before that, they had been growing bleached and unbleached celery, and after that, bleached celery became a thing of the past.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay. Well, thank you, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>All right. That’s the long-winded explanation. It’s kind of like, you know, why did all citrus juice come from a frozen concentrate can a few years ago, and now it’s available in a not-from-concentrate carton in the refrigerated section of the store? It’s sort of the same thing. It’s an evolution of technology and what people are used to. And you can’t—people don’t change their habits overnight. It takes a while.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>All right. Gotcha, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts <br /></strong>But all the celery starting in the late ‘40s then, was not bleached celery.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Did your—so I’m understanding—well, you didn’t grow it that way, but your father and grandfather each did?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Grandfathers definitely did. Yes.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris <br /></strong>Okay. Well, how, you said earlier that one of the stories you remember—hearing them talk about bleaching the celery. Do you remember any other childhood memories popped into your mind? You know, whether’s[sic] it in agriculture or just at school?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, when I was—I do remember my father’s—excuse me—my grandfather’s mules. He had obviously started—mules were used a lot, exclusively in the 1800s, and quite a bit in the early 1900s, because in Oviedo most of this celery farming was grown on muck, and that soft, organic land, the heavy tractors of the day wouldn’t stand up. They’d do fine out here on the sand land, or where they were mostly used in the Midwest, but that muck soil was, you had to have good flotation. And they would even take the mules’ hooves and wrap them in sacks, and tie around the hooves to increase the footprint of the mule so that he wouldn’t bog up as much when he went through the field. And at the end of the day, untied those sacks off the bottom of the mules’ feet. And the next day, if it was still soft and wet out there, they’d retie them. That would keep him from bogging up. He’d only sink three inches instead of sinking eight inches.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>And the mule accepted this.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>The mules accepted it. And you know, back then, if you were going to be a farmer, you had to be able to have a good—you had to know your mules, and be able to train them, and be able to work them. And it was an art to have a good team of mules. So I remember as a kid, the conversation between my dad and my grandfather, where my dad was saying, “What in the world are you doing keeping those mules? You haven’t plowed a field with them in five years now, and we’re not gonna ever use mules again. I don’t know why you’re fooling with them.” And my grandfather saying, “They’re my mules. I can’t just get rid of them.” So until those mules died, which was probably—I was probably six or seven years old—he still had a barn right on the end of Lake Charm at Florida Avenue. Along Florida Avenue there, he had a barn with two mules in it. But I’ve never seen them work the field. I’ve seen pictures. I’ve got pictures of it. In fact, I’ve got pictures of my grandfather with his mule team and his first tractor in the field, and he’s smiling. I think he’s more proud of the mules than he is the tractor.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>He had two mules? Is that like a normal amount, or...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Oh, well, they generally used a mule team. They generally used two mule teams farming here. Now, I have no idea how many total teams he had, but probably, you know, two or three teams of two.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>You said your grandfather had worked the fields. Did your father also work as a farmer?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah. Yes.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>And growing up, did you do the same?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, I worked summers, you know, but—so when school got out in the summer, I’d go work with Dad, and work all summer long at the farm. But my dad always told me that, you know, he wanted me to be whatever I wanted to be. You know, don’t—he didn’t expect me to come back to the farm. If I did, it was going to be my decision. He wanted me to make that decision on my own.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>So as I said, when I went off to college, I went so that I wouldn’t be a farmer, but ended up coming back.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>When you came back, sir, did you work mostly the administrative? Or did you also go back and work the fields as well?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>No, I worked the fields. I mean, you know, times had changed, but we had a crew of tractor drivers and—but I was the farm manager. I oversaw not only decisions on what we were gonna plant and where we were gonna plant it, but when the planting times were gonna be, and how we were gonna try to space the crop out, what personnel we needed for packing, and shipping, and selling.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. Can you tell us how it’s changed over the years, like Oviedo and the areas you’ve lived in? Since you were growing up, I’m assuming there’s been a lot of changes between then and now.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, Oviedo in the 1950s was an agricultural economy. Between the citrus and the vegetables that were grown, the basis for all the economy and all the services here was built around agriculture. That started changing in the late ‘50s, as some of the new equipment that was available had opened up new farming areas in the United States, and competition. For instance, in South Florida, the Belle Glade area opened up, and it was more economical in a lot of ways to grow products down there than it was up here. So, these farms tended to fall on harder times, and the more marginal farms and marginal farmers dropped out, sometimes bought up by other farmers, and sometimes that land was just taken out of production, never to be put in. There was lots of small pockets here in Oviedo that I remember having vegetables in them, that have not have been farmed in thirty years now.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Now, that started occurring the ‘50s, you said, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, late ‘50s.</p>
<p>And with the, you know, two things things happened about the time I started to go to—I graduated from high school and left to go to college. One is [Walt] Disney [World] opened up, and the other is that UCF [University of Central Florida] was established in our backyard here. And Disney really was the beginning of Orlando being a tourist destination. It had been a wintertime destination for a hundred years, almost, but it had not been a year-round tourist destination until [Walt] Disney established Disney World here.</p>
<p class="Body">UCF, being so close to Oviedo, changed Oviedo in that it brought in not only the teachers, professors, but all of the services that a large university requires, and, of course, the students. And so, it makes Oviedo a little bit more of a bedroom community to that college—doesn’t make it—Oviedo’s not the classic college town, but it is definitely a bedroom community to UCF. My perspective, because I left for college and didn’t come back to Oviedo—I lived in Apopka after that to run that farm, and just moved back fairly recently. I lived in Apopka for 35 years, but had lots of interests here. My family was here so I was, you know, monthly I was in Oviedo. And so I could see Oviedo change without being part of that change, you know, sort of being distanced from that change.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris <br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>And really, not easily described, but a very constant growing and getting less and less dependent on agriculture, more and more dependent on the high-tech industries and moderate. You know, medium manufacturing, light manufacturing, and of course, tourism.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>As a farmer, did you see UCF and Disney World as problematic for your business or for your community in Orlando?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>No, no. You know, you don’t try to rail against progress. It is—and you adapt to it. So, our family’s operation adapted as needed to those, and one reason why we closed the Oviedo farms down and just concentrated on our Zellwood operation was because that was the more modern farm of the last part of the 20th century, and the Oviedo farm was the farm of the first half of the 20th century.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. And since then both have farms have been closed down, correct, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yes. We sold our Zellwood farm to the State of Florida as part of a restoration project to clean up Lake Apopka.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay. And that was 1979?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>No. No, we shut that down, sold that in 1998.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris <br /></strong>Oh, okay, sir. And have you been working elsewhere since then, or traveling, or…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah. We had citrus groves, and we expanded those after selling out the vegetable operation, but basically downsized. I said I retired when I sold the vegetable operation, because I work so much less now than I did back then. But I still stay busy and enjoy growing oranges. You know, even the citrus business has evolved. When I was on the outside, I didn’t think the citrus business changed very much in, you know, my whole lifetime. And then once I got involved in it, I realized it is evolving. So it’s an interesting business to be in. I really enjoy it.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>How has it evolved?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, we were, once again, especially around Oviedo, there were lots of small orange groves. You could send a man on a tractor down the road. If your farm was right here, you could send a man out on over to Casselberry or up to Lake Mary on a tractor pulling an implement, have him do work that day, and drive back in the evening to do work on a ten-acre grove. Now, the liability exposure of putting a tractor on the road, you wouldn’t do—you know, you couldn’t make enough money on a ten-acre grove to just cover the liability exposure. So, groves now tend to be large blocks of a hundred acres, 75 to 500 acres. Anything less than that is pretty hard to caretake.</p>
<p class="Body">Irrigation systems—groves weren’t irrigated except by portable aluminum pipe. In real dry times in the spring, you would hook portable irrigation pipe to a pump and irrigate down that row—and for two or three hours—and you would shut the pump down, move that pipe through the grove, and reassemble it, and water another strip. Now everything is micro-jet, where there’s a sprinkler under every row, under every tree, year-round, a permanent micro-sprinkler. The irrigation’s mostly done by a timer and moisture sensors in the ground so that you don’t—nothing’s ever touched once it’s installed out there.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Oh, okay. Because all I ever see of the orange trees, sir, I don’t get to see underneath the ground. I didn’t know what changes had occurred.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>They’ve all got a sprinkler underneath them now.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>And we’re planting much closer than we used to. Trees used to be planted on a 25’ x 25’ spacing. Now, generally, you plant on a 12’ x 24’ spacing, so there’s a lot more trees to the acre, and everything’s worked one way down a row instead of two ways, like they used to do it in a grove. Used to be able to drive down two ways.</p>
<p class="Body">It’s starting to rain. Do you believe that?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>No.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Did you leave your windows down?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>No, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>No. It must be that one random cloud, right there. That’s the one catch about Florida. You never know when it’s gonna rain, even with the sunny skies.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Wow. I’m so surprised at that. I can’t—I wouldn’t have thought it’s gonna rain today, as cool as it was this morning.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>On the plus side, it doesn’t snow randomly.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts <br /></strong>Nah. Well, not very often.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>I think I’ve seen it snow in Florida one time.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris <br /></strong>But the snow disappeared before it hit the ground, and that was in the late ‘80s.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts <br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Have you ever seen it snow in Florida, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah. Yeah, about three different times I’ve seen where snow stayed around.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Really?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah, but not—the Christmas freeze of 1983. Snow stayed in shady spots for two days.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Wow. Would not have expected that from Florida.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>You said you still have the citrus industry as the business. Do you still do cattle, or ...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, the Clonts family never was in the cattle business, but we owned pasture land.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Oh, okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>And so, we’ve never been involved directly in the cattle business, but we know it well because we’ve always had land that we leased to my cousins and to other cattlemen who ran the cows, kept up the fences, and paid their lease for all that.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>So, was a way of having a ranch that was active cow ranch without having to be hands-on day-to-day in the business.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. And I’m assuming that made it a lot easier, then?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Oh, yeah. Basically, you’re just a landowner. In the cow business, we’ve just been a landowner and landlord to the cattlemen.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts <br /></strong>And it’s my mother’s brother, Robert Lee, was very involved in the cattle business all his life, so they leased most of our land.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. Jumping off subject, you mentioned when you went to college. You were old enough to go to UCF, were you not? Or was UCF ...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>I could’ve gone to UCF, and instead I chose to go to University of South Florida down in Tampa.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Oh, really? I didn’t even realize that university was as old.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yep.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>So you’re a Bulls fan, then?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>That’s right.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>My best friends would love to hear that. I, however, went to Florida State [University].</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Oh, yeah. Well, that’s another good school.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>It’s a good school.</p>
<p class="Body">Are there any particular historical events that come to mind, when you think over the course of your life, sir, that stick out?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Hm. You know, thinking back into my childhood, I remember one that was—and I don’t remember what the year was, probably was about 1961 or ’62—a jet aircraft flying a training mission out at what was then Sanford Naval Training Center [Naval Air Station Sanford], crashed just a few hundred feet from the edge of what is now Lawton Elementary School, but it was the Oviedo High School, which had all twelve grades at that time. And being in class, and hearing that crash, and all the flames and all the confusion afterwards. The pilot died in that crash. You know, one of those things you never forget. But I have forgotten the year. [<em>laughs</em>] So I guess I do forget it.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Oh, okay. But you remember the event though, right, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts <br /></strong>I remember the event.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>What grade were you in at that time?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>It seems like I was in about seventh or eighth grade, something like that. Maybe I was younger than that, because my memory’s still pretty fuzzy. But still it was—I remember the confusion.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>And was it over by the next day? Did you return to classes normally?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Oh, yeah. And, you know, it was the talk of the town for months and months, but things got back to normal fairly quickly—not, you know. Military jets were still, at that time, you know—it was the new technology.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Right.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>So it wasn’t—we heard jets flying, but, you know, you didn’t see that many jets back then.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Unless they crashed right outside your school.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Unless they crashed next to your school.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Then it’s hard to miss them. What kind of relationship did the community have with the military—the base—right there? Especially the farmers.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts <br /></strong>Oh, I think it was a good relationship. You know, Florida was—a lot of people who were in the military during World War II, when they got out, ended up coming back to Florida, because Florida had been such a good place for military bases in the ‘40s. Got the climate where you can train year-round, you know. It’s a whole lot better being stationed on a base in Pensacola than it is in upstate Michigan in the wintertime. So Florida had lots and lots of bases that trained soldiers of all types in the 1940s. As I said, a lot of those people got a taste of Florida, and once they were out of the military, and maybe got married, and—you know, said, “I know where I want to go.” And they moved back to Florida.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Can’t blame them.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Nope. It’s been happening ever since.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>It has, sir. It has. It’s still, I think—it’s still known for its military bases being more preferable to work—train—here. Because you have some of them in Jacksonville, some still down in Tampa.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Sure.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Yeah. Is there anything we haven’t covered, discussed today sir, that you wanted to make sure we got to?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>No, I didn’t have any agenda, and I don’t think I’ve done a very good interview. I think I’ve done a pretty average job at this.</p>
<p class="Body">I remember when fire ants had first gotten into Texas—because fire ants are not native to Florida—and, so fire ants in the mid-‘60s were getting into the state from the coastal states, but they had originally come in in Texas and then spread from there, and the [Douglas] DC-3 airplanes would fly on ant bait over the whole state. They would take a grid of eight miles by eight miles, and they would systematically fly at about three or four hundred feet high, dropping ant bait on a hundred percent of the ground surface.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Ant bait was ...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, the ant bait was to try to kill fire ants that were coming into the state. Obviously was not successful.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Obviously. I didn’t even know they weren’t native to Florida. I just kind of figured they were native everywhere.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>No. [<em>laughs</em>] They seem like it now.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>You know, that’s something that I don’t think you’d see happen today. I mean, there’s new pests now coming into the state of Florida, but at the rate of two or three a year. And you know, we’ve got pythons in the Everglades—that the idea of trying to eradicate an insect like that once it’s got established in the state is probably never going to happen again.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Probably not, sir. Did that cause any kind of panic or worry with the farmers? If they took it seriously enough to be spraying the entire state to try to get out fire ants?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, fire ants had been—fire ants are a pest, but you just learn to live with them. I mean, fire ants can kill a newborn calf if that calf gets born in the field, and the mother cow drops that calf in an ant pile. I mean, fire ants cause damage to livestock right now. They can kill a newborn calf, but that’s not a high rate of mortality, because it doesn’t happen too often, so it’s not something we try to eradicate anymore. But there was a time when there was a very organized war on fire ants.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Who organized this war?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, it was at the request of citizens, but it was the government and Ag departments [Department of Agriculture], and so on.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay. When you say fire ants, you’re talking about the red ones? The black ones had already been here, correct? Or did they both come at the same time?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>There’s lots of species of native ants here, some of which bite and some which don’t.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>But the fire ant is the one that, you know, when you step in the mound, you just get swarms of them.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Right. There’s one in my front yard.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah. I take those out every time I see one. I get the ant bait out and kill it. But I don’t try to eradicate them all over the state.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>That would be a little extreme, wouldn’t it? But, is there anything else, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>No.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>All right, sir, this has been invaluable. I really appreciate it. Thank you for letting me come over and talk to you today.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts <br /></strong>You bet. </p>
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