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Dublin Core
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Title
Churches of Sanford Collection
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
Churches--Florida
Alternative Title
Sanford Churches Collection
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the religious history of Sanford, Florida. Series descriptions are based on special topics, the majority of which students focused their metadata entries around.
The present-day Sanford area was originally inhabited by the Mayaca/Joroco natives by the time Europeans arrived. The tribe was decimated by war and disease by 1760 and was replaced by the Seminole Indians. In 1821, the United States acquired Florida from Spain and Americans began to settled in the state.
Camp Monroe was established in the mid-1830s to defend the area against Seminoles during the Seminole Wars. In 1836, the United States Army built a road (present-day Mellonville Avenue) to a location called "Camp Monroe," during the Second Seminole War. Following an attack on February 8, 1837, the camp was renamed "Fort Mellon," in honor of the battle's only American casualty, Captain Charles Mellon.
The town of Mellonville was founded nearby in 1842 by Daniel Stewart. When Florida became a state three years later, Mellonville became the county seat for Orange County, which was originally a portion of Mosquito County. Citrus was the first cash crop in the area and the first fruit packing plant was constructed in 1869.
In 1870, a lawyer from Connecticut by the name of Henry Shelton Sanford purchased 12,548 acres of open land west of Mellonville. His vision was to make this new land a major port city, both railway and by water. Sitting on Lake Monroe, and the head of the St. Johns River, the City of Sanford earned the nickname of “The Gate City of South Florida.” Sanford became not only a transportation hub, but a leading citrus industry in Florida, and eventually globally.
The Great Fire of 1887 devastated the city, which also suffered from a statewide epidemic of yellow fever the following year. The citrus industry flourished until the Great Freezes of 1894 and 1895, causing planters to begin growing celery in 1896 as an alternative. Celery replaced citrus as the city's cash crop and Sanford was nicknamed "Celery City." In 1913, Sanford became the county seat of Seminole County, once part of Orange County. Agriculture dominated the region until Walt Disney World opened in October of 1971, effectively shifting the Central Florida economy towards tourism and residential development.
Contributor
MacDonald, Kathleen
Smith, Austin
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/16" target="_blank">Sanford Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
All Souls Catholic Church, Sanford, Florida
New Mount Calvary Baptist Church, Sanford, Florida
St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church, Sanford, Florida
St. John Missionary Baptist Church, Sanford, Florida
St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church, Sanford, Florida
Trinity United Methodist Church, Sanford, Florida
Zion Hope Missionary Baptist Church, Sanford, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
<span>Joiner, E. Earl. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/348410" target="_blank"><em>A History of Florida Baptists</em></a><span>. Jacksonville, Fla: Printed by Convention Press, 1972.</span>
<span>Flewellyn, Valada S. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320804616"><em>African Americans of Sanford</em></a><span>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub, 2009.</span>
<span>Bailey, Julius. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59879767"><em>Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900</em></a><span>. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005.</span>
<span>Gannon, Michael. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1310797" target="_blank"><em>The Cross in the Sand: The Early Catholic Church in Florida, 1513-1870</em></a><span>. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1965.</span>
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Original Format
6 color digital images
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Title
New Mount Calvary Baptist Church, 2011
Alternative Title
New Mount Calvary Baptist Church
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
Churches--Florida
Baptists--Florida
Baptist Church
African American churches--Southern States
Description
New Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, located at 1115 West Twelfth Street in Goldsboro, an African-American community in Sanford, Florida, in 2011. New Mount was founded in 1918 by former members of the First Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, which is also located in Goldsboro at 700 South Elm Avenue. Seeking a more outwardly diligent ministry, a group of 30 parishioners were first congregated in the home of Mr. J. W. Simmons, located on Avocado Avenue. The subsequent meetings were then held at New Salem Primitive Baptist Church, located at 1500 West Twelfth Street, under the leadership of Reverend F. J. R. Brown.<br /><br />The church continued to grow, and within the same year church members began building a structure located on West Twelfth Street and Pecan Avenue, which was designed and built by famed African-American architect Prince W. Spears. Once completed in 1920, the church continued to expand and increase their involvement within the surrounding community. The church was rebuilt in 1938, adding numerous improvements and buildings to their plot of land. In 1993, New Mount Calvary was officially incorporated with the State of Florida, and later received its 501(c)3 with the U.S. Department of Treasury of the Internal Revenue Service in 2002. New Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church still stands as an iconic edifice, dedicated to serving their congregation's faith and community.
Creator
MacDonald, Kathleen
Source
Original color digital images by Kathleen MacDonald, June 17, 2011.
Publisher
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>
Date Created
2011-06-17
Format
image/jpg
Extent
4.33 MB
4.73 MB
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4.52 MB
4.92 MB
Medium
6 color digital images
Language
eng
Type
Still Image
Coverage
New Mount Calvary Baptist Church, Goldsboro, Sanford, Florida
Accrual Method
Item Creation
Mediator
History Teacher
Geography Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Kathleen MacDonald and published by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
Rights Holder
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>
Curator
MacDonald, Kathleen
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
Joiner, E. Earl. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/348410"><em>A History of Florida Baptists</em></a>. Jacksonville, Fla: Printed by Convention Press, 1972.
Flewellyn, Valada S. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320804616"><em>African Americans of Sanford</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub, 2009.
Elliott, Brenda, Stom L. Richards, and Jeanne Fillmore-Richards. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23380617"><em>Orange County Black Communities Survey: Project Report</em></a>. Orlando, Fla: Yielding & Provost, 1990.
Wilson, Dreck Spurlock. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52160103"><em>African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945</em></a>. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Transcript
NEW MOUNT CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH
WELCOME
SUNDAY SCHOOL
9:30 AM
CHURCH
11:00AM
BIBLE STUDY
WEDNESDAY 7PM
REV J J KSN[?] JR
NEW MT. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH
REBUILT 1938
S.A. ZACHARY, CHM. TRUSTEE BOARD
R.M. JOHNSON, CHM. DEACONS BOARD
THELMA FRANKLIN, CLERK
REV. A. C. McQUEEN, PASTOR
1948
NEW MOUNT CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH
TRUSTEES
A. BLACKSHERE
C.S. KNIGHT
C.L. SIMMONS
J.T. THOMAS
T.W. WILSON. CHAIRMAN
REVD. F.J.R. BROWN. PASTOR
P. W. SPEAR
ARCHITECT & BUILDER
1918-1920
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/65" target="_blank">Churches of Sanford Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Source Repository
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>
12th Street
African American
African-American church
Baptist
Baptist Church
Blackshere, A.
Board of Trustees
Brown, F. J. R.
church
Franklin, Thelma
Goldsboro
Johnson, R. M.
Knight, C. S.
MacDonald, Kathleen
McQueen, A. C.
New Mount Calvary Baptist Church
Pecan Avenue
Sanford
Simmons, C. L.
Spear, Prince W.
Thomas, J. T.
Trustee Board
Twelfth Street
Wilson, T. W.
Zachary, S. A.