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Title
Oviedo Historical Society Collection
Alternative Title
Oviedo Historical Society Collection
Subject
Oviedo (Fla).
Description
The Oviedo Historical Society Collection encompasses historical artifacts donated for digitization at the Oviedo Historical Society's History Harvest in the Spring semester of 2015.
The Oviedo Historical Society was organized in November 1973 by a group of citizens. The society is a 501(3) non-profit organization. Its purpose is to help preserve the community identity of Oviedo by collecting and disseminating knowledge about local history, serve as a repository for documents and artifacts relating to Oviedo history, promote the preservation and marking of historic sites and buildings in the Oviedo area and foster interest in local, state, national, and world history.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/128" target="_blank">Oviedo Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Oviedo, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>
<a href="http://history.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=304" target="_blank">Dr. Connie L. Lester</a>'s Introduction to Public History course, Spring 2015
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>." Oviedo Historical Society, Inc. http://oviedohs.com/.
Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979.
Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012.
"<a href="http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68" target="_blank">History</a>." City of Oviedo, Florida. http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68.
"<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3.
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
Dobson, Alexandra
Interviewee
Blackwood, Bernie
Location
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>, Oviedo, Florida
Original Format
1 audio recording
Duration
30 minutes and 21 seconds
Bit Rate/Frequency
128kbps
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Title
Oral History of Bernie Blackwood
Alternative Title
Oral History, Blackwood
Subject
Oviedo (Fla.)
St. Petersburg (Fla.)
Real estate--United States
City planning--Florida
Construction
Description
An oral history interview of Bernard O. Blackwood, conducted by Alexandra Dobson on March 19, 2015. Blackwood was born on April 9, 1933, and attended the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville, Florida. After graduating from college, Blackwood migrated to St. Petersburg with his wife, Suzanne A. Blackwood, to work as a city planner. In the 1970s, the couple moved to Oviedo with their children. There, Blackwood helped plan several residential subdivisions alongside Ben Ward, Jr. Interview topics include land development, the effects of Florida Technological University (present-day University of Central Florida), Blackwood's wife and children, Ben Ward's contributions to the community, desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement in St. Petersburg, and his career as a city planner.
Table Of Contents
<br />0:00:00 Introduction <br />0:01:48 Land development <br />0:04:07 Florida Technological University and the Oviedo Land Group <br />0:07:51 Migration to Oviedo and working with Ben Ward, Jr. <br />0:13:30 Wife and children <br />0:14:29 Population growth and Florida Technological University <br />0:18:39 Ben Ward’s contributions to the community <br />0:19:24 Blackwood Construction Corporation and Lutheran Haven <br />0:20:25 Schools and desegregation in St. Petersburg <br />0:21:57 St. Petersburg and career as a city planner
Abstract
Oral history interview of Bernard “Bernie” O. Blackwood. Interview conducted by Alexandra Dobson at Blackwood's home in Mead Manor in Oviedo, Florida, on March 19, 2015.
Type
Sound
Source
Blackwood, Bernie Interviewed by Alexandra Dobson, March 19, 2015. Audio record available. Oviedo History Harvest, <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>, Oviedo, Florida.
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Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/147" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society Collection</a>, History Harvest Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Has Format
20-page digital transcript of original 30-minute and 21-second oral history: Blackwood, Bernie Interviewed by Alexandra Dobson, March 19, 2015. Audio record available. Oviedo History Harvest, <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>, Oviedo, Florida.
Coverage
Mead Manor, Oviedo, Florida
St. Petersburg, Florida
Creator
Blackwood, Bernie
Dobson, Alexandra
Publisher
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>
Date Created
2015-03-19
Date Modified
2016-01-05
Date Copyrighted
2015-03-19
Format
audio/mp3
application/pdf
Extent
27.7 MB
198 KB
Medium
30-minute and 21-second audio recording
20-page digital transcript
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Bernard “Bernie” O. Blackwood and Alexandra Dobson, and published by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
Rights Holder
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>
Accrual Method
Item Creation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>
External Reference
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/5278" target="_blank">Mead Manor Brings New Lifestyle to Oviedo</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/5278.
"<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.
Transcript
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>This is an oral history interview of Bernie<a title="">[1]</a> [O.] Blackwood. Interview is conducted by Alexandra Dobson at the Blackwood home in Oviedo, Florida, on the 19<sup>th</sup> of March, 2015. Inter—interview topics include Oviedo, Mead Manor, and that’s it.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Well, my name’s Bernie Blackwood, and my association with Oviedo began in the early [19]50s. I was a student at Gainesville,<a title="">[2]</a> and I had a roommate named Bob Ward, who was a native of Oviedo, and I came to Oviedo on occasions on weekend with Bob, and got to know a little bit about the area. It was so different from my, uh, little home town in North Florida. I saw orange groves and celery fields and stuff, to—tobacco fields, uh—shade[?] tobacco fields it was up there, but, um, when I finished at Gainesville, I went right to work. I had a job waiting in Saint Petersburg[, Florida], and, uh, Bob and I kept in contact over the years, and through Bob I had met his brother, Ben Ward—Ben Ward, Jr., and, uh, we’d been in St. Pete four or five years. I—I guess it was around 1963 when Ben called me—Ben Ward, Bob’s brother—and said he was developing a subdivision. He and a group of, uh, investors and businesspeople here in O—Oviedo were developing a subdivision, and they had started, but they’d ran into a few troubles, and he knew I—through Bob—knew had a little—had—I had a little experience in land planning.</p>
<p>So he asked me if I’d come up, take a look at what he had, and I was glad to do it, because it gave me a chance to visit Bob, and Ben brought me out. it’s a 40-acre site in— northeast, uh, Oviedo—beautiful piece of land—and made it clear to me to—to begin with they wanted large lots, nice home sites, and the group of, uh, investors and businesspeople, who, uh, put their money up for this project, wanted the same thing. They wanted to grow Oviedo and they knew there was nothing in Oviedo, at that time. No lots available, really. I don’t think there’d been any residential lots added in Oviedo since probably the early 1900s, and—so I went to work on the plan, and, uh, came up with something that they agreed with.</p>
<p>Oh, I’m getting a little ahead of myself maybe, because they had actually started—they had, uh, put the group together, and they had paved a little section of Mead Drive, which is the entrance off of Division Street into Mead Manor, at that time, Three or four hundred—two or three hundred feet, I’d say, and then it made a right turn into a little cul-de-sac, and they had, uh—[<em>laughs</em>] they didn’t know quite where to go from there, because they had three—three swampy areas—little ponds in the 40 acres. So we developed a plan, uh, around those ponds, uh, with nice size lots and streets running around, and, uh, they approved the plan and, [<em>clears throat</em>] I came up one weekend—one Saturday with an engineer friend of my from St. Pete, and, uh, the streets had been, uh, cleared, and we shot grades, went back to St. Pete, and did a cut-and-fill plan, and presented that to the group, and they went from there and started developing the subdivision.</p>
<p>And the—they paved the streets, they put in paved streets with gutters, and they had a water system in Oviedo at that time, so it was on a water system, and the, uh, next, uh—next thing we knew, uh—I should say that before they started this project, there was no kno—knowledge of FTU<a title="">[4]</a> locating five miles south of Oviedo. It, eh—I asked Ben later, and he said “No,” uh, “We didn’t know it,” and I thought they were crazy, at the time, for—for footing this kind of subdivision and—and—[<em>laughs</em>] out in Oviedo with just a little crossroads farm community, and I didn’t know where the people were going to come from, and Ben said, “Oh, they’ll come.” He was an eternal optimist, and the next thing I knew, I read—read in <em>The St. Pete</em>[<em>rsburg</em>]<em> Times</em> where FTU was locating five miles south of Oviedo. So I began to be a little more interested in what was going on, and they began selling the lots. First lot they sold in here—or maybe the second one—uh, I know it was the first person from the university—was a man named Phil Gorey[sp] and he was a, um—one of the administrative people under Millican—Dr. [Charles Norman] Millican, and the, uh—the subdivision took off rather slowly, but they were selling lots. A lot across the street there was, uh—was, uh, [Joe] Gomez, uh…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>He was a professor out there.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Yeah, What’s the first, uh…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Joe.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Uh…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Joe.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Joe. Yeah, Joe Gomez. He was a comptroller out at the university, and, uh, there were three or four, five, six—I mean, there half a dozen, at least, uh, different professors that started buying lots out, and some of them still here, like me [<em>laughs</em>]. I’m not a professor [<em>laughs</em>], um, and as the lots started selling, the land group—Oviedo Land Group was the name of the, uh—of the, corpora—or the company that Ben Ward put together, and the investors in it—I could—I can recall most of ‘em, I think. There was, uh, Frank Wheeler, John Evans, uh, I think Mr. Roy Clonts, probably, um…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Beleren[sp]?</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Who?</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Bob[?] Beleren? Was he one of ‘em?</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>No, no, not, uh, not, uh…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Uh, uh…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Martin?</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Bill…</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Bill…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Martin?</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Yeah, Bill Martin and John Evans. I might have…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Said him before, but anyway, it was a group of local businessmen and there were five or six of ‘em. I met with them a couple times, and, uh, didn’t really know them at—at all. I have since gotten to know them all, one time or another, and, uh—so they decided to buy another 40 acres just, uh, to the north of the first unit, and, uh I—again, I did a layout for them, and Ben developed it, and so it made a total of 80 acres here in Oviedo, and I—I’d be glad to drive you around and show you if you’d like to see it. Some of the developers’ve[sic] been dead, but during this time, Ben was still planning ahead and the next thing—he had a project. Another, uh—I think it was another 40 acres, and—and they—we worked up a subdivision for him on that—a layout, and it’s called [inaudible] Garden Grove. It’s right near here.</p>
<p>And, [<em>clears throat</em>] by that time, Ben, eh—he was originally—he had an insurance business, and, uh, uh—and a real estate brokerage business, and he was getting interested into building and construction. He said, “I’ve got all these lots. I might as well build some houses.” So he offered—gave me—he said, “Why don’t you come up and join me, and we’ll form a corporation and build—build a few houses,” and the idea appealed to me, but leaving my secure place in St. Pete—position I had and so forth—uh, it took a lot of soul searching, and I guess it—I probably thought about it for two or three years ‘fore—and, in the meantime, Ben and I were still working together on—on the projects up here, and, uh, I finally made the decision. <em>I’ve gotta do it. I want to do it. </em>I’d always been interested in construction and had some experience in that, and my[?]—my family wasn’t too eager about it at first.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>The kids—I had a, uh, son<a title="">[5]</a> that was in the third grade and going—would be going into the fourth grade, and a daughter in the sixth grade, I believe, but they finally came around, and we moved up here, uh, second day of September, 1972. Went to work about the very next day and…</p>
<p>[<em>phone rings</em>]</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>The kids start…</p>
<p>[<em>phone rings</em>]</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>The kids started school the very next day after we got here, I think, and my family adjusted. They just loved Oviedo, and Sue<a title="">[6]</a> was a city girl. Sue was from Jacksonville.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>And she didn’t think she wanted to move to Oviedo from St. Petersburg. We all loved St. Petersburg. I did too, but, um, we found Oviedo to be—the people here were the most gracious, welcoming. we never felt like a stranger, and part of that maybe was, because I came here with Ben Ward, who—his dad was a celery grower, and, uh, had—had groves here in town, and Ben had some land, and—quite a bit of land in and around Oviedo, and, uh, so we—we went from there. We started building houses, and, uh, Ben and I were together, uh, for four years, I think, and his interests were—was on development—land development, and mine…</p>
<p>[<em>phone beeps</em>]</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Was more in construction, and I didn’t have the deep pockets to go into land development [<em>laughs</em>], but Ben, uh—he had a vision for this—for this little town, and he—he wanted to—nothing but quality development, and he was the only one developing land in Oviedo, and he was always, I thought, a little ahead of the market, and it was, uh—it cost him financially, but he did it, and after we, uh—we split, we remained friends, and met on a weekly basis and compared what each of us was doin’, until he passed away in—I think he passed away in ‘99, and [<em>coughs</em>] I never—I feel he never deserved the credit he did—he deserved—for what he did for this little town, because you can look around he—he’s re—responsible for Mead Manor, Garden Grove, Whispering Oaks….</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Mmhmm.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Uh, Hill—Hillcrest, uh, Farms—I think was the name of it.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Uh, Windmilll…</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Windmill Farms.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Farms.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Those were residential, uh, develops here.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>How about Oviedo Oaks?</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>No, no, he didn’t—he didn’t develop that.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Hm.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Uh, and he also started—he did some commer—a couple of commercial projects. one of ‘em was, uh, Westwood Square. It was a commercial/industrial, uh, zoning area, and, uh, it’s completely built out now. Uh, do you know where, uh, Toucan—what—no, it’s—what’s the Spanish…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Habanero’s [Mexican Grill].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Habanero’s.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>You know where that is?</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>I drove by it.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>That was part of Westwood Square. All of those b—back in there was developed, and there was nothing out there at the time—nothing, and nothing between there and Oviedo [<em>laughs</em>], and…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>One little gas station.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Yeah, the—the, uh, Tiger—Tiger Station.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>We called it, and, uh, then there’s another, uh, I believe it’s called Oviedo Office Park up to your—on [Florida State Road] 426 between Westwood Square and the city limits—what was the city limits then—or the high school, say—and it’s a very nice commercial development, and it had doctor’s offices, uh, and that—that type of commu—uh, development, and, like I say, we—we came here—we’ve been here for 43 years now, and I could never move Sue from—get her out of this house or out of this city.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>She loves it and the kids love it. My daughter lives in Tallahassee, and, uh, she—she’s down here quite often. My son works with me, or did work with me. He runs the business now. I’m just—I’m retired. I go in and aggravate him every day a little bit [<em>laughs</em>]. Uh, I don’t know. Do you have any questions from there? I’d be glad to drive you around a little Oviedo and show you some of these projects if you have the time…</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Or the inclination.</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Sure, thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Take her to, um, Whispering Oaks, ‘cuz that’s…</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Really…</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Well, they’re all nice.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Really, pretty, yes, Whispering Oaks has beautiful trees, but…</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Um…</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Have I missed anything Sue?</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>I don’t’ think so. I think—I was amazed at how well you [<em>laughs</em>]…</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Uh…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Covered everything.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Well, you know, that’s—that’s about it with, uh, my—my interests in Oviedo. It was…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>I…</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Was primarily building. I built all these years and…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Do you know what the population was when we moved here?</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>I should’ve…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>[inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Gone into that. It was about 2000, and, uh, it was about the same when I visited 10 years earlier. It hadn’t grown a bit. I don’t think it grew a bit from—I should’ve included this in it—from the ‘30s and on up to the ‘60s, and this development right here<a title="">[7]</a> was what started the growth in Oviedo, uh, after—after, um—no. I guess it was the edges[?] of [inaudible], uh, track builders started coming into Oviedo. The, uh, uh, Jacobs brothers owned two thousand acres of land where O—where Alafaya Woods is now and that area over there, uh—Twin Rivers and that area. They sold it to a group in Atlanta in the early [19]70s, and Bob pretty well fell out of construction for a while there, and nothin’, eh—I don’t know if that company went bankrupt or what, but they sold it to the Anden Group, and the Anden Group is a group that developed Alafaya Woods [<em>clears throat</em>], and it was a little bit, uh—it was, uh, a different type development than what Ben had been developing. I think he’d be surprised today if he knew how, um—he felt that—that Oviedo never had, uh—be, uh, anything but small, rural community [inaudible] with good home sites. ‘Course he knew, and I knew too, that when the university located there, sooner or later it was gonna affect Oviedo in a big way [<em>coughs</em>], and it did, but, uh…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Is—is Tom Phillips next door still teaching?</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Yeah, he’s a professor over—no. he’s not teaching, but he’s retired.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>He’s retired? Okay.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>That’s—that’s probably…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>We were surrounded by them.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Yeah, when we first moved here, the—‘course, this was, you know—all the professors had kids and we had kids, and it’s, uh, changed a couple times since then. You’ve got, uh, uh, older families that moved out, newer families with kids that moved in, and, uh, and, uh, and we’ve stuck—stuck here [<em>laughs</em>] all those years, but, um, we’ve seen the growth in Oviedo from two thousand to…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>What? 35,000 now, probably.</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Do you think it was just the university that did that, or…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Pretty…</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Well…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Pretty much.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>It, uh—pretty much, I think. The [Central Florida] Research Park out there—and of course, it—it—Oviedo [<em>clears throat</em>]—it grew to be a—it had a very good school system.<a title="">[8]</a> I should’ve mentioned that. When—when we moved here, my son was going into the fourth grade, and we—he went to a school right across from where we lived, practically, in St Pete. He could walk to school, and they had gotten into the new, uh—let the kid reach his potential, don’t push him, don’t push him.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Mmhmm.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>And…</p>
<p><strong>Unidentified<br /></strong>[<em>clears throat</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>I went and talked with the teacher about it, and—“Oh, Scott’s doin’ fine,” And it didn’t…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Seem to me that he was doin’ fine, and she said, “Oh, no, no. he’s fine.” Well, when we got here, he had teachers like Ms. [Margeurite] Partin.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Partin Elementary [School] was named after her, and she was a wonderful teacher.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>And Ms. Gore, and s—same teachers that taught Ben Ward, and Bob Ward—that group. They were still there, and she went to work on Scott and brought him up to speed. He didn’t—he didn’t even know his multiplication tables, and [<em>laughs</em>]…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Does now [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>And all of the kids here did, but she—she put him to work on ‘em and you[?]—he learned real quick[sic], and caught up, and did alright, But it—it was just a great place to raise your kids, and, uh, I—I just can’t say enough about the—the town and about—about the guy that really got it goin’.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Ben Ward.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>I think so too.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>You get the chance to give him a plug—he’s long gone. his wife still lives here in Ovi—in, uh, Mead Manor, and his kids—he has one—one kid that lives in Tuscawilla and the rest of ‘em are scattered around.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Tuscawilla was not here at all when we moved here.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Well, it was too. It was one road…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>[inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Called Dyson Road<a title="">[9]</a> comin’ off of, uh, Tuskawilla Road—Dyson—and they had…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Dyson, yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>They—they just started developing a few lots there. That’s a beautiful sub—one of my favorite subdivisions. The area is Tuscawilla.</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Mm, what kinds of things has Blackwood Construction [Corporation] done?</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>We did primarily single-family and, uh, small commercial. We did, uh, dental office for Bob Beleren over in Winter Springs[, Florida], and that sort of thing, but we built over 500—we’ve got—I think we got…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>563 [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Well, some of ‘em weren’t—some of ‘em in the recent years have just been small jobs…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>And Lutheran Haven. mention Lutheran Haven.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Yeah, we did—we built most of Lutheran Haven projects out of, uh—duplexes.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>You’ve probably passed Lutheran Haven on your way in. Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Could be…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Hm.</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>I’m not sure.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>[inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>I’m really not that familiar [<em>laughs</em>]…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>It’s a big Lutheran church, and they—it has a retirement for us—little du—duplexes.</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Its’ a…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Its’ a…</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>And a—and a, uh, nursing home now. Uh, we could even—if you’ve got time, I’ll drive you all over. show you—show you a little bit of Oviedo.</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Okay [<em>laughs</em>], Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Don’t want to live here? [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Yeah [<em>laughs</em>]. Um, I actually moved to Orlando from St. Pete for the same reasons.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Oh, my goodness.</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Oh, really?</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>To get my son in a better school.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Aww.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Aw, really?</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Yeah, I don’t…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Well, you know, we thought the schools there were just great, ‘til we moved here.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Well, I didn’t think they were great, because I didn’t think our—our boy was learning anything.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Yeah, well…</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>And—and another thing, uh, we got caught up right in the Civil Rights [Movement]—we—you know where Bay Vista Elementary [School] is?</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Mmhmm.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>We lived within a block of Bay Vista, at that time, and the kids walked to school, and it was a fairly new school then, and, uh, eh, I think, 11 or—yeah, she was in the fifth grade when all the civil rights—and they started bussing kids, and she got bussed to the school right in the middle of St.—black school in the middle of St. Pete.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>I don’t remember what the school was—the— the name of the school.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>I don’t remember.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>But [<em>laughs</em>] it—it, uh—it was only for that one year, and she got along fine.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Yeah, she did.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>She didn’t have any problems, but…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>She—she made some good friends there.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>It just didn’t make sense to take kids that [<em>laughs</em>] could walk to school and pay a bus to drive them somewhere else.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>] It was probably a good experience.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Well, you [inaudible]—how—how long did you live in St. Pete?</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Uh, five or six years.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>You weren’t born there then?</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>No.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>From when to when?</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Uh, it was recent. I’ve been in Orlando for three years.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Three years?</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Oh, well, you saw—you’ve seen the downtown area really change.</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Yes, it has [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>We—we—I graduated on Saturday night, and we packed up everything, and we had. I met Sue at [the University of] Florida her—her senior year [<em>laughs</em>], and…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Just about.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>And, uh, we packed up everything. We—we got married, uh, my last semester there. we got married, and she’d graduated the semester ‘fore I did. She’s smarter than I am.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>And we moved to St. Pete on Sunday, and I started work Monday. I was, uh—I worked as a city planner for 14 years ‘fore I came here.</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Wow. What kind of things did you do?</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>What kind of work?</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Well, uh, we—are—are you—if you’re familiar with the parks system in Oviedo—just to give you an example—uh, in, uh, St. Pete, um—Southside Park—you know the 40-acre park down Lakewood Elementary [School]?</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Mmhmm.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>And all of that? That was a plan that we came up with. Oh, oh—we developed a five-year pl—plan. We had a great city manager named Lynn [H.] Andrews, from about the time I went there until he left in ‘69, and he had a—a capital improvement program—a five-year, capital improvement program, and every year, they would, uh, budget certain projects, and at the end of the year, you’d see if the money was spent right on those projects [inaudible]. He—he’d project the five years another year, but he adjusted every year during that five years, and, uh, he built the, uh—had the, uh—Bayfront Center was built, the museum downtown, the waterfront—the city park of the waterfront, Northeast Park, there was all developed while he was there. The pier—inverted pier—was built, and I was all part of all that, and it was just interesting and fun, until he left, and we got another manager, and I just did not enjoy working anymore.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Oh.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>That’s how I happened to come here.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>I think that was the time to come here.</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>What was civil rights like in St. Pete? What was your experience with it?</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Well, uh, my main experience—it was no problem. 16<sup>th</sup> Street was kind of, uh—they[?] had their riots and things during the time.</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>They still do [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood</strong> [<em>laughs</em>] And my main memory of it—and this was why Lynn Andrews left St. Petersburg. I’m sure. In ‘68 or ‘69 when they, um, allowed public employees to be unionized—the garbage department became unionized, and they went on strike one year, and Mr. Andrews, uh, negotiated with ‘em and got ‘em back—not a big break in service. The very next year, they went on strike again, and he—on Monday morning, they didn’t show up for work. the whole garbage department didn’t show up for work, and he gave them an ultimatum. He said that “Anyone that’s not back on the job by Thursday of this week will be permanently terminated—all benefits and everything.” Well, they—the union didn’t believe him, I guess, because a big percent—some did come back. Within a week he had completely re-staffed that from people from Georgia—different people looking for jobs. He completely re-staffed the garbage department, and a lot of employees lost their jobs, and from that point on, <em>The St. Pete Times</em> took up the position of the strikers. They marched on city hall every day, and he didn’t yield. It’s kinda like Ronald Reagan and, uh—and the, uh, uh, air [traffic] controller strike. You’re probably too young to even remember that. </p>
<p><strong>All<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>But he did the same thing, and, um, from that day on, anything that, that Lynn Andrews did—and I was privy to what was going on there, he would be lambasted in <em>The St. Pete Times</em> for it, and after about, uh, a year of that he, uh—he went back to Tex—he came to St. Pete from San Antonio, Texas, as the city manager, and he went back as the city manager of, uh, Austin, Texas. When he came to St. Pete, he brought his finance director, um, his assistant city manager, and the budget director—was, uh—that group came. When he left, they all went with him, except one, and he left the city and went to work for First Federal [Bank of Florida].</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Wow, That’s impressive. Keeping your staff with you.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>And they were good, good men, weren’t they?</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Good men, all of ‘em. yeah, Smart men. I often said. If he’d of run for president. I woulda…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>I woulda—he—he was firm, but he was fair, But, uh, no. We—we love St. Pete. We go back every now and then, when we get a chance. [inaudible]…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>How many people weren’t up there anymore?</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Yeah, most of my old buddies are gone. [<em>laughs</em>]. Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>It’s still a lovely place to visit.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Yeah, and the downtown is so—with the waterfront—is so nice now.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>You know, I went down for a job interview, and Sue went with me, and that was before we were married. I went—I got a summer job there, and, uh [<em>laughs</em>], we drove into St Pete from—came down 30—34th Street, turned left on Central [Avenue] and got downtown, and I—we—this was in April.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>We saw nothin’ but green benches and gray heads, and that’s quite a shock comin’ from Gainesville.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>From Gainesville, yeah, where everybody’s young to…</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Where everybody’s young.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>To where everybody’s old.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>] but it was a good place to live.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>It—yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>[inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>It—it—it had something for everybody then, but the majority—I think 25 percent of the population then was 65 or older. It had, uh—I knew at the time, the population was 180 thousand when, uh, we moved there, and I think it was about 22 5[thousand] when we left. I don’t know what it is now, but it had pretty well built out. There wasn’t much developable land in St. Pete, other than up and around Whedon’s[sic] Island area.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>What part of St. Pete did you live in?</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Um, I lived on First Avenue North and 25th Street. So…</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>25th Street? [inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Almost downtown.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Uh huh, al—yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>We lived almost downtown when we first moved there.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>We had a little garage apartment, uh…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Right near the hos—near Mound[?] Park Hospital.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>No, no. our garage apartment was, uh, up on the Northside.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Oh, that one?</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>About 26th Avenue North, and then we—we bought a, um—an old, 50-year-old apartment building down on 11th Avenue South, and I could walk to work from there—to City Hall, and we—we moved in— fixed up one unit and moved in it, and as a tenant left, we’d remodel that tenant[sic]—that unit and fix it up. Made a nice place.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Was your son…</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>Oh.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Born there?</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>Uh, he was born in Clearwater. I lived in Clearwater, Largo, Dunedin [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>Oh.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>You ever heard of Fred Marquis?</p>
<p><strong>Dobson<br /></strong>I don’t think so.</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>He was county manager there in Pinellas County for 25 years, I guess. I think he set a record for it, but he…</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Blackwood<br /></strong>He—he was a planner, uh, with, uh—in St. Pete with me [<em>coughs</em>]. He came there right out of graduate school, and, uh, worked there, and we became good friends, but I hadn’t been in touch with him for years. Uh, he’s—he’s—he’s since retired.</p>
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<p><a title="">[1]</a> Bernard.</p>
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<p><a title="">[2]</a> University of Florida.</p>
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<p><a title="">[3]</a> Present-day University of Central Florida.</p>
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<p><a title="">[4]</a> Florida Technological University.</p>
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<p><a title="">[5]</a> Scott Blackwood.</p>
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<p><a title="">[6]</a> Suzanne A. Blackwood.</p>
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<p><a title="">[7]</a> Mead Manor.</p>
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<p><a title="">[8]</a> Seminole County Public Schools (SCPS).</p>
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<p><a title="">[9]</a> Correction: Dyson Drive.</p>
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11th Avenue
16th Street
1st Avenue
25th Street
34th Street
Alafaya Woods
Anden Group
Bay Vista Elementary School
Bayfront Center
Ben Ward, Jr.
Bernard O. Blackwood
Bernie Blackwood
Bill Martin
Blackwood Construction Corporation
Bob Beleren
Bob Ward
bussing
Central Avenue
Central Florida Research Park
Charles N. Millican
Charles Norman Millican
city managers
city planners
civil rights
Civil Rights Movement
colleges
construction
demonstrations
desegregation
Division Street
Downtown St. Petersburg
Dyson Drive
educators
Eleventh Avenue
First Avenue
Florida State Road 426
Florida Technological University
Frank Wheeler
Fred Marquis
FTU
Garden Grove
Gore
Habanero's Mexican Grill
integration
Joe Gomez
John Evans
labor
labor rights
land development
Lutheran Haven
Lynn H. Andrews
Marguerite Partin
Mead Drive
Mead Manor
neighborhoods
Northeast Park
Oviedo
Oviedo Land Group
Oviedo Oaks
Oviedo Office Park
Partin Elementary School
Phil Gorey
Pinellas County
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protesters
protests
public employees
race relations
real estate
residential developments
riots
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Roy Clontz
Saint Petersburg
school bus
school buses
schools
Scott Blackwood
SCPS
Seminole County Public Schools
Sixteenth Street
Southside Park
SR 426
St. Pete
St. Petersburg
strikers
strikes
subdivisions
Sue Blackwood
Suzanne A. Blackwood
teachers
The St. Petersburg Times
Tiger Station
Tom Phillips
Tuscawilla
Tuskawilla Road
Twin Rivers
UCF
unionization
unions
universities
university
University of Central Florida
Westwood Square
Whispering Oaks
Windmill Farms
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The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Oviedo Historical Society Collection
Alternative Title
Oviedo Historical Society Collection
Subject
Oviedo (Fla).
Description
The Oviedo Historical Society Collection encompasses historical artifacts donated for digitization at the Oviedo Historical Society's History Harvest in the Spring semester of 2015.
The Oviedo Historical Society was organized in November 1973 by a group of citizens. The society is a 501(3) non-profit organization. Its purpose is to help preserve the community identity of Oviedo by collecting and disseminating knowledge about local history, serve as a repository for documents and artifacts relating to Oviedo history, promote the preservation and marking of historic sites and buildings in the Oviedo area and foster interest in local, state, national, and world history.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/128" target="_blank">Oviedo Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Oviedo, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>
<a href="http://history.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=304" target="_blank">Dr. Connie L. Lester</a>'s Introduction to Public History course, Spring 2015
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>." Oviedo Historical Society, Inc. http://oviedohs.com/.
Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979.
Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012.
"<a href="http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68" target="_blank">History</a>." City of Oviedo, Florida. http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68.
"<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3.
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A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
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.
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<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/147" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society Collection</a>, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
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