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Title
Seminole County Public Schools Collection
Alternative Title
SCPS Collection
Subject
Seminole County (Fla.)
Schools
High schools--Florida
Elementary schools
Grammar schools
Middle schools--Florida
Education--Florida
Teachers--Florida
Educators--Florida
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the educational history of Seminole County, Florida. Items from this collection are donated by the Student Museum and UCF Public History Center.
The Student Museum has collaborated with the University of Central Florida and established the UCF Public History Center (PHC). All of the Student Museum's collections are presently housed at the PHC. The goal of the PHC is to promote access to history through ground-breaking research connecting local to global, provide cutting-edge hands-on educational programs for students and visitors, and to engage the community in contributing to and learning from history.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a>
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>
Has Part
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/31" target="_blank">Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Cameron City, Sanford, Florida
Crooms Academy, Goldsoboro, Sanford, Florida
Chuluota Primary School, Chuluota, Florida
East Side Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Forest City School, Forest City, Altamonte Springs, Florida
Fort Reed, Sanford, Florida
Gabriella Colored School, Gabriella, Oviedo, Florida
Geneva Colored School, Geneva, Florida
Geneva Elementary, Geneva, Florida
Georgetown, Sanford, Florida
Goldsboro Primary School, Goldsboro, Sanford, Florida
Hungerford School, Florida
Kolokee, Geneva, Florida
Lake Howell High School, Winter Park, Florida
Lake Mary School, Lake Mary, Florida
Lake Monroe Colored School, Lake Monroe, Sanford, Florida
Longwood School, Longwood, Florida
Lyman High School, Longwood, Florida
Lyman Elementary School, Longwood, Florida
Midway, Sanford, Florida
Osceola School, Osceola, Geneva, Florida
Oviedo Colored School, Curryville, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo School, Oviedo, Florida
Paola, Florida
Sanford Grammar School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford High School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Junior High School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Middle School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Seminole County Public Schools, Sanford, Florida
Seminole High School, Sanford, Florida
South Side Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Student Museum, Sanford, Florida
UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida
Wagner Colored School, Florida
Westside Grammar Elementary School, Sanford, Florida
West Side Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Wilson School, Altamonte Springs, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Public History Center/Student Museum</a>
External Reference
<span>"</span><a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Public History Center</a><span>." Public History Center, University of Central Florida. http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/.</span>
<span>"</span><a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a><span>." Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx.</span>
Accrual Method
Donation
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
116 page loose-leaf ledger
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Title
Seminole County Public Schools Teachers and Salaries, 1913-1954
Alternative Title
Seminole County Teacher Salaries
Subject
Seminole County (Fla.)
Schools
Elementary schools
High schools--Florida
Teachers--Florida
Educators--Florida
Employees--Florida
Description
Seminole County Public Schools' Teacher Records from 1913 to 1954. When the Seminole County School Board was established in 1913, it began recording teachers' names, ages, certifications, years of experience, number of months contracted, and salaries in a loose-leaf ledger. Over the years, the records began including new categories of information, such as home addresses and colleges/universities attended. In total, the ledger includes 116 pages and details the teachers employed at both Caucasian and African-American schools. Schools were located in various towns in Seminole County including Sanford, Lake Mary, Geneva, Longwood, Oviedo, Clyde, Gabriella, Altamonte Springs, Chuluota, Paola, Lake Monroe, Goldsboro, Markham, Forest City, Curryville, and Midway-Canaan.
Type
Text
Source
Original ledger by <a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/schoolboard/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Seminole County School Board</a>: Seminole County Public School System Collection, box 2, folder 1A, <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, Sanford, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Is Part Of
Seminole County Public School System Collection, box 2, folder 1A, <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, Sanford, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/73" target="_blank">Seminole County Public Schools Collection</a>, Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original ledger by <a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/schoolboard/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Seminole County School Board</a>.
Coverage
Sanford High School, Sanford, Florida
Lake Mary, Florida
Geneva Elementary School, Geneva, Florida
Lyman High School, Longwood, Florida
Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
Gabriella, Oviedo, Florida
Altamonte Springs, Florida
Chuluota, Florida
Goldsboro Primary School, Goldsboro, Sanford, Florida
Paola, Florida
Forest City Elementary School, Forest City, Altamonte Springs, Florida
Curryville, Oviedo, Florida
Lake Monroe, Sanford, Florida
Midway Elementary School, Midway, Sanford, Florida
Kolokee School, Kolokee, Geneva, Florida
Osceola, Geneva, Florida
Fort Reed, Sanford, Florida
Hopper Academy, Georgetown, Sanford, Florida
Seminole High School, Sanford, Florida
Cameron City, Sanford, Florida
Crooms High School, Goldsboro, Sanford, Florida
Wilson Elementary School, Sanford, Florida
Seminole-Rosenwald School, Altamonte Springs, Florida
Creator
<a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/schoolboard/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Seminole County School Board</a>
Date Created
ca. 1913-1954
Format
application/pdf
Extent
70.2 MB
Medium
116-page loose-leaf ledger
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created and published by the <a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/schoolboard/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Seminole County School Board</a>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</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://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center/Student Museum</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/communityinvolvement/AboutUs.aspx" target="_blank">About Us</a>." Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/communityinvolvement/AboutUs.aspx.
Bentley, Altermese Smith. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45705201" target="_blank"><em>Seminole County</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2000.
"<a href="http://www.geneva.scps.k12.fl.us/" target="_blank">Geneva Elementary School</a>." Geneva Elementary School, Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.geneva.scps.k12.fl.us/.
Martin, Mal. "<a href="http://www.ruralheritagecenter.net/geneva-schoolhouse/item/27-history-schoolhouse" target="_blank">History of the Geneva School House</a>." Rural Heritage Center. http://www.ruralheritagecenter.net/geneva-schoolhouse/item/27-history-schoolhouse.
"<a href="http://www.lyman7576.com/history.html" target="_blank">The History of Lyman High School</a>." Lyman High School Classes of 1975 & 1976. http://www.lyman7576.com/history.html.
"<a href="http://www.lymanhigh.org/lymanhistory.html" target="_blank">Lyman History</a>." Lyman High School, Seminole County Public Schools. http://lyman.scps.k12.fl.us/Parents/ParentsAH/HistoryofLyman.aspx.
"<a href="http://www.milwee.scps.k12.fl.us/Home/HomeRedirects/OurHistory.aspx" target="_blank">Milwee History</a>." Milwee Middle School. http://www.milwee.scps.k12.fl.us/Home/HomeRedirects/OurHistory.aspx.
"<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.
"<a href="http://www.mwms.scps.k12.fl.us/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Markham Woods Middle School</a>." Markham Woods Middle School. http://www.mwms.scps.k12.fl.us/Home.aspx.
"<a href="http://teachercenter.scps.k12.fl.us/education/components/layout/default.php?sectionid=15&url_redirect=1" target="_blank">Forest City Elementary School</a>." Forest City Elementary School. http://teachercenter.scps.k12.fl.us/education/components/layout/default.php?sectionid=15&url_redirect=1.
"<a href="http://teachercenter.scps.k12.fl.us/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=69124" target="_blank">About Us</a>." Midway Elementary School of the Arts. http://teachercenter.scps.k12.fl.us/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=69124.
"<a href="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/fl/county/seminole/Geneva/extinct_towns_.htm" target="_blank">Extinct Towns in the Geneva Area*</a>." Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc.. http://www.usgennet.org/usa/fl/county/seminole/Geneva/extinct_towns_.htm.
"<a href="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/fl/county/seminole/Geneva/schools.htm" target="_blank">The Geneva Area Schools</a>." Geneva Historical & Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc. http://www.usgennet.org/usa/fl/county/seminole/Geneva/schools.htm.
"<a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/about-the-museum-of-seminole-county-hi/museum-resources-historical-informatio/1878-1913-black-schools-in-seminole-co.stml" target="_blank">1878 -1913 Black Schools in Seminole County</a>." Parks and Preservation, Seminole County Government. http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/about-the-museum-of-seminole-county-hi/museum-resources-historical-informatio/1878-1913-black-schools-in-seminole-co.stml.
Bentley, Altermese. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21264645" target="_blank"><em>Georgetown, The History of A Black Neighborhood</em></a>. Sanford: Reprinted by the Sanford Museum, 1995.
"<a href="http://croomsaoit.org/#about" target="_blank">About Crooms Academy</a>." Crooms Academy of Information Technology, Seminole County Public Schools. http://croomsaoit.org/#about.
"<a href="http://www.goldsboromuseum.com/The-Education-In-Goldsboro.html" target="_blank">Education In Goldsboro & Sanford</a>." Goldsboro Historical Museum. http://www.goldsboromuseum.com/The-Education-In-Goldsboro.html.
Flewellyn, Valada S. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320804616" target="_blank"><em>African Americans of Sanford</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub, 2009.
"<a href="http://teachercenter.scps.k12.fl.us/education/school/schoolhistory.php?sectiondetailid=607&" target="_blank">School Information</a>." Wilson Elementary. http://teachercenter.scps.k12.fl.us/education/school/schoolhistory.php?sectiondetailid=607&.
"<a href="http://www.goldsboromuseum.com/The-History-of-Goldsboro.html" target="_blank">The Rich History of Goldsboro</a>." Goldsboro Historical Museum. http://www.goldsboromuseum.com/The-History-of-Goldsboro.html.
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Chuluota Primary School
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CR 427
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Goldsboro Primary School
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Haines City
Halb Avenue
Havana
Hawthorne
Hemingwet
Hermits Trail
Hewlett
Hickory Avenue
high school
Highland
Hinson
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Hopper Academy
Howry Street
Hungerford School
Indian Mound Village
Jackson Street
Jacksonville
Jasper
Jefferson
Jefferson Street
Jessamine Avenue
Jonesboro
Key West
Kingstree
Kissimmee
Kolokee
Ky-Bama Lodge
Lake Avenue
Lake Butler
Lake Mary Road
Lake Mary School
Lake Monroe Colored School
Lake Monroe School
Lake Wales
Lake Worth
Lakeland
Lakemont
Lakeview Drive
Lakewood
Langley
Langley Apartments
Las Olas Boulevard
Laurel Avenue
Leesburg
Lewisberg
LHS
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Livingston Street
Lloyd
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Locust Avenue
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Lyman Elementary School
Lyman High School
Madison
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Magnolia Avenue
Main Street
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Marianna
Marietta
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Maryville
Mascotte
Masonville
McCombe Street
Mellonville Avenue
Menlo
Merritt Street
Miami
Midway
Miller Avenue
Minnesota Avenue
Moncrif Avenue
Montezuma Hotel
Monticello
Montverde
Morgan City
Moultrie
Mount Dora
Mount Olive
Mount Vernon
Myrtle Avenue
New Canton
New Milford
New Port Richey
New Smyrna Beach
Nineteenth Street
Ninth Street
O'Brien
Oak Avenue
Oak Street
Oakland
Ocoee
OHS
Olive Street
Orange Avenue
orlando
Osceola
Osceola School
Osteen
Oviedo
Oviedo Colored School
Oviedo High School
Oviedo School
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Pinehurst
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Richmond Avenue
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Rosalia Drive
Rose Court
Rose Court Apartments
Rosenwald
Rosenwald No. 1
Roslindale
Roundtree Avenue
Route 1
Route 2
Route A
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Ruthledge
Salem
Salisbury
San Lanta Apartments
Sand Lake Road
Sanford Avenue
Sanford Grammar School
Sanford High School
Sanford Junior High
Sanford Junior High School
Sanford Primary School
Sanford Vocational School
Sans Souci Avenue
school
SCPS
Seaboard Oil Company
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Sellors Street
Seminole County
Seminole County Public Schools
Seminole County School Board
Seminole High School
Seminole Rosenwald No. 1
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Title
History Harvest Collection
Alternative Title
History Harvest Collection
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
Schools
Elementary schools
Grammar schools
High schools--Florida
Description
The Student Museum Collection encompasses historical artifacts donated for digitization at the Student Museum History Harvest in the Spring semester of 2013.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Sanford High School, Sanford, Florida
Westside Grammar Elementary School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Grammar School, Sanford, Florida
Student Museum, Sanford, Florida
UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a>
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center/Student Museum</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Public History Center</a>." Public History Center, University of Central Florida. http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/.
"<a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a>." Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
1 newspaper article
Dublin Core
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Title
Sanford Landmark School Building Hosts Reunion and its Last Hurrah
Alternative Title
Sanford Landmark School Building Hosts Reunion
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
High schools--Florida
High schools--Alumni and alumnae
High schools--Buildings
Schools
Description
Newspaper article about the Seminole High School reunion held on June 1, 1991. The reunion was held at Sanford Middle School, which was the former building for the high school at 1700 French Avenue in Sanford, Florida.<br /><br />Originally located at 301 West Seventh Street in Sanford, Florida, Seminole High School was first established as Sanford High School in 1902. The building was designed by W. G. Talley in the Romanesque revival style. Due to an increasing student population, a new school building was constructed on Sanford Avenue in 1911. The original building on Seventh Street served as Westside Grammar Elementary School, which was later renamed Sanford Grammar School. In 1984, the building was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places and converted into the Student Museum. The building reopened as the University of Central Florida's Public History Center in 2012. In 1927, a high school campus was designed by Elton J. Moughton in the Mediterranean revival style and constructed at 1700 French Avenue. The school reopened on January 10 and was renamed Seminole High School. In 1960, the high school moved to a new campus at 2701 Ridgewood Avenue and the former building on French Avenue was converted to Sanford Junior High School, which was later renamed Sanford Middle School. The old building was demolished in the summer of 1991 and replaced by a $5.77 million school complex. As of 2013, Seminole High School offers various Advanced Placement courses, the Academy for Health Careers, and the International Baccalaureate Programme for students.
Creator
DeSormier, Vicki
Source
Original newspaper article by Vicki DeSormier: "Sanford Landmark School Building Hosts Reunion and its Last Hurrah." <a href="http://mysanfordherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Sanford Herald</em></a>, June 2, 1991, pages 1A and 5A: Private Collection of Walter Smith.
Publisher
<a href="http://mysanfordherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Sanford Herald</em></a>
Date Created
ca. 1991-06-02
Date Copyrighted
1991-06-02
Contributor
Smith, Walter
Vincent, Tommy
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original newspaper article by Vicki DeSormier: "Sanford Landmark School Building Hosts Reunion and its Last Hurrah." <a href="http://mysanfordherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Sanford Herald</em></a>, June 2, 1991, pages 1A and 5A.
Is Referenced By
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/1669" target="_blank">Smith, Walter</a>. Interviewed by John Settle. <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, HAR 1063392P. March 2, 2013. Video record available. UCF Public History Center.
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<a href="http://www.adobe.com/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Format
application/pdf
Extent
382 KB
Medium
1 newspaper article
Language
eng
Type
Text
Coverage
Seminole High School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Middle School, Sanford, Florida
Accrual Method
Donation
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Vicki DeSormier and published by <a href="http://mysanfordherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Sanford Herald</em></a>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="http://mysanfordherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Sanford Herald</em></a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a> History Harvest, Spring 2013
Curator
Steele, Kris
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank"> RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.seminolehs.scps.k12.fl.us/" target="_blank">Seminole High School</a>." Seminole High School, Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.seminolehs.scps.k12.fl.us/.
"<a href="http://www.sanford.scps.k12.fl.us/" target="_blank">Sanford Middle School</a>." Sanford Middle School, Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.sanford.scps.k12.fl.us/.
Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53015288" target="_blank"><em>Sanford</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.
Transcript
Celery Feds say 'Hi' and 'Goodbye'
Sanford Middle School Principal Dan Pelham holds up good-condition June 2, 1926 copy Sanford Herald moments after removing it from time capsule taken from cornerstone of former high school on Friday.
Sanford landmark school building hosts reunion and its last hurrah
_________________________________________
By VICKI DeSORMIER
Herald Staff Writer
__________________________________________
SANFORD--There was a party going on at Sanford Middle School on Saturday.
And it's the last one that will take place in the school which was built as Seminole high School in 1927.
The facility, located at 1700 French Ave., which some say has outlived its usefulness, will be torn down next month to reveal a new school which has been under construction behind it for over two years.
"There are a lot of good memories in this old place," said Roy Wright, who was president of the class of 1936 and quarterbaclk of the Celery Feds football team in those days. "But I think the old building has outlived its usefulness and the new buildings will hold some new memories for people."
Those who came to reminisce with old friends and to say goodbye to the school of their memories had the chance to walk down Memory Lane where old annuals, photos and newspapers were encased in a glass enclosure.
Many of the items in the display had been removed from a time capsule that was removed from the cornerstone of the old building on Friday.
Issues of the "Sanford Herald" and the "Sanford Morning signal" from June 1926 were on display. An issue of the "Celery Fed" school newspaper from the 1950s was also shown.
"Oh I wish we could take those out and look at them," said Jane Thornton of Deltona, who didn't want to say what year she graduated.
'"I want to try on that helmet," chimed in her husband Dave who did not graduate from the school, but said he was interested in seeing the school that his wife had talked so much about.
"She talks about this place all the time," he said. "I just had to see it for myself."
In the new school cafeteria, more than 500 people from the classes of 1927 through 1960 gathered at long tables festooned with bright stalks of celery and orange and black balloons to eat a spaghetti dinner prepared by the lunchroom staff.
The school's jazz band entertained.
Small piece's of the gymnasium's wooden floor were on sale for three dollars apiece. Many alumni were buying the mementos.
Elizabeth Shoemaker Lynch, who lives in Sanford, was a member of the class of 1927, was also a math teacher at he school in the 1930s and 1940s.
"I've seen a lot of my old students here today, but they all looked so much older," she laughed.
Margaret Sprout Green, another member of the class of 1927, was unhappy about the impending destruction of a piece of Seminole County history.
"It should be preserved," she said.
The Celery Feds concluded the day-long reunion with a dance at the Sanford Chamber of Commerce.
The Banana Boys (music with appeal, they said), who played at all the school's dances in the 1940s and early 1950s provided the music.
Date Issued
1991-06-02
Has Format
Original newspaper article by Vicki DeSormier: "Sanford Landmark School Building Hosts Reunion and its Last Hurrah." <a href="http://mysanfordherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Sanford Herald</em></a>, June 2, 1991, pages 1A and 5A.
Is Part Of
<a href="http://mysanfordherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Sanford Herald</em></a>, June 2, 1991, pages 1A and 5A.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/73" target="_blank">Seminole County Public Schools Collection</a>, Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Source Repository
Private Collection of Walter Smith
alumni
anford
Banana Boys
Celery Fed
Celery Feds
DeSormier, Vicki
French Avenue
Green, Margaret
high school
high school reunion
jazz band
Lynch, Elizabeth
Morris, Gladyse
Pelham, Dan
Sanford Chamber of Commerce
Sanford Junior High School
Sanford Middle School
Sanford Morning Signal
school
Seminole High School
Shoemaker, Elizabeth
Smith, Walter
Sprout, Margaret
Stemper, Gladyce
The Sanford Herald
Thornton, Dave
Thornton, Jane
time capsule
Tommy
Vincent
Wright, Roy
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Dublin Core
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Title
Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District Collection
Alternative Title
Seminole Soil and Water Conservation Collection
Subject
Seminole County (Fla.)
Environmental protection--Florida
Contributor
<a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Seminole County, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
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Title
Annual Report of the Board of Supervisors of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District, 1961
Alternative Title
Seminole Soil and Water Conservation Annual Report
Subject
Seminole County (Fla.)
Environmental protection--Florida
Description
The annual report of the Board of Supervisors of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District for 1961. The organization began in 1948 with a goal to assist in agricultural interests. Over the years, the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District began to also concentrate on the development and management of recreational enterprises. Their interests also entailed inventory and evaluations for land uses and solving issues concerning soil and water resources. In this year's report, the board gives an annual review of the accomplishments of the past and a summation of the objectives for the next year.
Type
Text
Source
Original 11-page typewritten report by the Board of Supervisors of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District,1961: Folder SSWCD Annual Reports, 1949-1975, <a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>, Sanford, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Is Part Of
Folder SSWCD Annual Reports, 1949-1974, <a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>, Sanford, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/collections/show/204" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 11-page typewritten report by the Board of Supervisors of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District, 1961.
Coverage
Seminole County, Florida
Creator
Hammond, Ralph
Publisher
<a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>
Hammond, Ralph
Date Created
ca. 1961
Date Issued
ca. 1961
Format
application/pdf
Extent
1.48 MB
Medium
6-page typewritten report
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by the <a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a> and Ralph Hammond.
Rights Holder
This resource is not subject to copyright in the United States and there are no copyright restrictions on reproduction, derivative works, distribution, performance, or display of the work. Anyone may, without restriction under U.S. of state copyright laws:
<ul class="one_column_bullet"><li>reproduce the work in print or digital form</li>
<li>create derivative works</li>
<li>perform the work publicly</li>
<li>display the work</li>
<li>distribute copies or digitally transfer the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.</li>
</ul>
This resource is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only. For more information on copyright, please refer to <a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?submenu=3#A1S24" target="_blank">Section 24 of the Florida Constitution</a>.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Baker, Holly
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>
External Reference
Hammond, Ralph. 1961. <em>1961 Annual Report of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</em>. Sanford, Florida.
Al Furman
Allen Sandifer
Ben Wiggins
Bill West
Bonner L. Carter
C. A. Wales
cattle ranching
Cecil Tucker II
Central Florida Experiment Station
Charles Chellman
citrus
citrus farming
conservation
Curtin Green
Don Farrens
Elbert Cammack
Farm Bureau
farmers
farming
FFA
Homer Ballard
Horace White
irrigation, water control
Jack P. Dodd
John Winter
orlando
Phil Westgate
R. V. Forbes
Ralph Hammond
ranching
Robert E. Lee
Sanford
Sanford Junior High School
Seminole County
Seminole High School
Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District
SHS
Soil and Conservation Service
SSWCD
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Vo-Ag
W. W. Linz
-
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Dublin Core
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Title
Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District Collection
Alternative Title
Seminole Soil and Water Conservation Collection
Subject
Seminole County (Fla.)
Environmental protection--Florida
Contributor
<a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Seminole County, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Dublin Core
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Title
Program of the Board of Supervisors of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District, 1963
Alternative Title
Seminole Soil and Water Conservation Program, 1963
Subject
Seminole County (Fla.)
Environmental protection--Florida
Description
The Program of the Board of Supervisors of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District for 1963. The organization began in 1948 with a goal to assist in agricultural interests. Over the years, the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District began to also concentrate on the development and management of recreational enterprises. Their interests also entailed inventory and evaluations for land uses and solving issues concerning soil and water resources. The fourteen page program from 1963 discusses the history of the organization and contains information pertaining to the goals of the Seminole Soil Conservation District as well as the major problems they face regarding water control, soil depletion, erosion control, wildlife, land use, livestock, egg production, and recreational and rural land development.
Type
Text
Source
Original 14-page typewritten report by the Board of Supervisors of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District,1963: Folder SSWCD Statistical and Historical Information, 1948-1977, <a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>, Sanford, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Is Part Of
Folder SSWCD Statistical and Historical Information, 1948-1977, <a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>, Sanford, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/collections/show/204" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 14-page typewritten report by the Board of Supervisors of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District, 1963.
Coverage
Seminole County, Florida
Creator
Hammond, Ralph
Publisher
<a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>
Hammond, Ralph
Date Created
ca. 1963
Date Issued
ca. 1963
Format
application/pdf
Extent
485 KB
Medium
14-page typewritten report
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by the <a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a> and Ralph Hammond.
Rights Holder
This resource is not subject to copyright in the United States and there are no copyright restrictions on reproduction, derivative works, distribution, performance, or display of the work. Anyone may, without restriction under U.S. of state copyright laws:<ul class="one_column_bullet"><li>reproduce the work in print or digital form</li><li>create derivative works</li><li>perform the work publicly</li><li>display the work</li><li>distribute copies or digitally transfer the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.</li></ul>This resource is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only. For more information on copyright, please refer to <a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?submenu=3#A1S24" target="_blank">Section 24 of the Florida Constitution</a>.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Baker, Holly
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>
External Reference
Helms, Douglas. "<a href="https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/about/history/?cid=nrcs143_021384" target="_blank">Hugh Hammond Bennett and the Creation of the Soil Conservation Service</a>." <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</em> 65, no. 2, March/April 2010, 37-47. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/about/history/?cid=nrcs143_021384.
Helms, Douglas. "<a href="https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/home/?cid=nrcs143_021380" target="_blank">Eroding the Color Line: The Soil Conservation Service and the Civil Rights Act of 1964</a>." <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</em> 65, no. 2, Spring 1991, 35-53. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/home/?cid=nrcs143_021380.
Rasmussen, Wayne D. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/795510987" target="_blank"><em>Taking the University To The People: Seventy-five years of Cooperative Extension</em></a>. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 9189.
Shofner, Jerrell H. "<a href="https://ucf.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A25480/datastream/OBJ/view" target="_blank">Roosevelt's 'Tree Army'</a>." <em>Florida Historical Quarterly</em> 65, no. 4, April 1987, 433-465. https://ucf.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A25480/datastream/OBJ/view.
DeFreese, Duane E. "<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/20700248?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents" target="_blank">Florida and the Environment: From 'La Florida' to Global Warming: 2008 Jillian Prescott Memorial Lecture</a>." <em>Florida Historical Quarterly</em> 87, no. 4, Spring 2009, 465-483. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20700248?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.
abandoned flowing wells
agricultural development
agriculture
artesian water
beans
beef cattle
birds
Black Hammock
cabbage
carrots
celery
Charles A. Wales
chlorides
citrus
conservation
corn
cropland
drainage
egg production
Elbert Cammack
environmental protection
erosion
farmers
farming
flowing wells
Geneva
industrial development
irrigation
Jack Dodd
Lake Harney
Lake Jessup
Lake Monroe
lakes
land development
land use
leguminous cover crops
lettuce
livestock
nemeatodes
overgrazing
pasture development
ponds
poultry
poultry farms
Puzzle Lake
Ralph Hammond
recreation
recreational land
row crops
Sanford
Sanford Junior High School
Seminole County
Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District
soil
Soil and Conservation Service
soil depletion
SSCD
SSWCD
St. Johns River
streams
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
vegetables
W. W. Linz
water
water control
Wells
wildlife
wind
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Dublin Core
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Title
Sanford Collection
Description
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 (1832-1891) 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.
Alternative Title
Sanford Collection
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
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>
<a href="https://www.thehistorycenter.org/" target="_blank">Orange County Regional History Center</a>
<a href="http://sanfordhistory.tripod.com/" target="_blank">Sanford Historical Society, Inc.</a>
<a href="http://www.sanfordfl.gov/index.aspx?page=108" target="_blank">Sanford Museum</a>
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Sanford, Florida
Curator
Marra, Katherine
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53015288" target="_blank"><em>Sanford</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.
"<a href="http://www.sanfordfl.gov/index.aspx?page=48" target="_blank">Sanford: A Brief History</a>." City of Sanford. http://www.sanfordfl.gov/index.aspx?page=48.
<em>The Seminole Herald</em>. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52633016" target="_blank"><em>Sanford: Our First 125 Years</em></a>. [Sanford, FL]: The Herald, 2002.
<span>Mills, Jerry W., and F. Blair Reeves. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11338196" target="_blank"><em>A Chronology of the Development of the City of Sanford, Florida: With Major Emphasis on Early Growth</em></a></span><span>, 1975.</span>
Has Part
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/82" target="_blank"><em>Celery Soup: Florida’s Folk Life Play</em> Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<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.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/131" target="_blank">Creative Sanford, Inc. Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/41" target="_blank">Georgetown Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/78" target="_blank">Marie J. Francis Collection</a>, Georgetown Collection, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/101" target="_blank">Sanford Avenue Collection</a>, Georgetown Collection, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/79" target="_blank">Goldsboro Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/116" target="_blank">Henry L. DeForest Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/12" target="_blank">Hotel Forrest Lake Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/14" target="_blank">Ice Houses of Sanford Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/42" target="_blank">Milane Theatre Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/13" target="_blank">Naval Air Station Sanford Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/15" target="_blank">Sanford Baseball Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/61" target="_blank">Sanford Cigar Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/10" target="_blank">Sanford Riverfront Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/11" target="_blank">Sanford State Farmers' Market Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
Holcomb, Susan
Interviewee
Scott, David
Location
<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
Original Format
1 audio recording
Duration
55 minutes and 53 seconds
Bit Rate/Frequency
196kbps
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Title
Oral History of David Scott
Alternative Title
Oral History, Scott
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
Nursing homes--Florida
Description
An oral history of David Scott, conducted by Susan Holcomb on April 9, 2010. Scott was the son of Grady Scott, who served as Superintendent of the Old Folks Home, formerly located at 300 Bush Boulevard in Sanford, Florida. The property has since been converted into the Museum of Seminole County History. In this interview, Scott discusses the layout and residents at the home, his responsibilities as an employee, growing up in Sanford, and how Sanford has changed over time.
Table Of Contents
0:00:00 Introduction<br />0:00:20 Old Folks Home<br />0:02:38 Residents<br />0:05:10 Responsibilities as an employee<br />0:11:31 Dining room and kitchen<br />0:12:43 Willie and Lily<br />0:13:31 Stories about residents, father, and siblings<br />0:18:59 Livestock and agriculture<br />0:21:34 Stories about residents and pet dog named Pooch<br />0:24:04 Laundry room and furnace<br />0:25:43 Life as a teenager<br />0:26:52 How Sanford has changed over time<br />0:27:55 Siblings and education<br />0:30:15 Pasture, orange groves, and freezer locker<br />0:32:53 Agricultural Building<br />0:34:44 Cattle ranchers and the railroad<br />0:38:03 Father's employment history<br />0:39:50 Oak tree memorial<br />0:41:23 Disciplining children and residents with dementia<br />0:44:13 Living room<br />0:44:55 Gender and racial segregation<br />0:45:45 Layout<br />0:54:29 Closing remarks
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Oral history interview of David Scott. Interview conducted by Susan Holcomb at 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>, Sanford, Florida.
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<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Today is April 9<sup>th</sup>, 2010. My name is Susan Holcomb. I’m here interviewing David Scott about his time when his dad<a title="">[1]</a> was Superintendent here at the Old Folks Home. David, thank you again for your time today.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Okay. You’re welcome.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>You were telling me about the office here.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yes. This where I’m standing now in front of the fireplace. This was the superintendent’s living quarters. This is where we lived—my mom<a title="">[2]</a> and dad, and my sister, my brother, and myself. We lived here. This was the entrance—the main entrance—the office. That’s where we kept all the records. There was a driveway that came up in the front here and made kind of a turn and people would come up and stop in front of the office. And whatever their business was, we would take care of it here, because we lived right next to the office. So it was real convenient. But this was where we lived. We lived in here. It was good. This has been opened up. The partitions—this has all been opened up into the dining area. That was all closed when we lived here. It looks small now, but it was large then. But it was a lot of fun here. This was back in the late [19]50s-early ‘60s. But my sister and my brother stayed on this side—in the superintendent’s side—and I stayed over in the office where Kim [Nelson] is right now, that was my room. There was[sic] two rooms where the office is—two small rooms. They opened that up and now she’s in—where her office is that was my room where I stayed.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>How about that. So there were two rooms there and you had one of them?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Right.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>And how old were you again when you lived here?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>I was around 15—15 years old.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /> </strong>And how many years were you here?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>We were here approximately four years living here. But I got used to the elderly folks, and it was a good part of growing up. It was a lot of experience, a lot of knowledge, and things that I listened to back then—stories and all. They were fantastic. It was just like reading a book, when you talk to some of the people that were here. And it was great.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>That’s interesting. About how many residents were here then? Do you know?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>I would say probably 10-15 in this section. We had the infirmary in the back. Of course it’s not there now. Rachel Lee ran the infirmary with a nurse, and she had her patients, and sick people were there. And there was the colored section where they lived and there was probably eight people living in there. But there would be people coming and going, but most of the time we kept the same ones. They just lived here ‘til something happened to them.</p>
<p>But it was good that this road came around from the front of the office. It came around the building and all the way around that building, and made a loop, and came out over there where you parked your car in the parking lot, and came back out to the road. And the ambulance—if they had to pick up someone from the infirmary or the doctor or whatever, they could make a loop and all the deliveries and everything.</p>
<p>Now when you pull up—we’ll walk to the kitchen here. This was our entrance right here in the kitchen on the superintendent’s side. We parked our cars out there. There was an oak tree. This was all field out there. To your right, on the south side, there was a garage and a chicken coop. It was probably 50 by 50 and we probably had 150 chickens to 200 chickens. Behind that was the wash shed—the infirmary. And the coloreds stayed in their building. We would take—certain days we would go out and gather up the chickens and we would have to slaughter up the chickens. We had fresh chickens and put them in the freezer. We also had pigs and cows and stuff like that. We had plenty of meat, plenty of milk, and it worked out good for everyone here.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>That[?] sounds like it. What were some of the responsibilities you had here, if any?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Oh, yeah. Yeah. Back in the day you did your part. I would get up in the mornings, and I’d get dressed and sometimes put on an old pair of pants. Not my school clothes, but I would come over and back up between the little trellises out here. This is the dining room and kitchen here, and I would back up there with the truck. We had a five-gallon pail with leftover milk, scraps. And we would get commodities like cornmeal with bugs in it or something once in a while and I would take all that, throw it in the five-gallon bucket with milk, put it in the back of the truck, drive down the road, and I’d slop the hogs every day. That was my morning chore. So the reason why I said about pants was that sometimes it would spill on ya, so you had to be real careful. But I had to do that and a bunch of little things in the morning. Make sure everything was in its rightful place, kinda do a little walk round—my dad did and I did. It was a family thing. Then we’d walk down to the road and catch the school bus, or drive to school, or someone would pick us up.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>You said you went to Seminole High [School]?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>I went to Seminole High on French Avenue on top of the hill back then in ’59. The road out here—the four lane—was just getting finished. It was two lane. They were just finishing it. That made it nice.</p>
<p>But it was good. In the afternoons, I would come in after school and I’d kinda go through the same process of changing clothes and getting everything. We had a Snappin’ Turtle lawn mower—one of those old mowers with a turtle head on the front—and we would mow grass. That was part of it. We’d mow grass and Will—he was one of the black guys. He was on crutches. He would be at the barn at a certain time, and all the cows would come in, and he’d milk all the cows. I’d go through the orange grove—that was all orange grove on that side then—I’d go down through the orange grove to the barn, and I would bring the milk back, because he couldn’t do it. And I’d carry the milk, bring it back to the kitchen so they would have fresh milk. Usually we’d have two full buckets. That was part of my job in the afternoon. There was[sic] always things to do. Sometimes in the afternoons or on the weekends, I would even go to the infirmary or in the back where the blacks lived—the colored folks lived—and pick them up and take them across—here’s a lake in Lake Mary you could go through the woods and around, and the man that had the lakefront property would let them fish. So we would go fishin’. There’d be four or five that’d want to go over. Sometimes we’d leave ‘em for two-three hours with water and everything and then go back and get ‘em. They’d bring the fish back, clean them, and the kitchen people would cook ‘em. So that’s the way it went.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>So every once in a while you had fresh fish too?</p>
<p><strong>Scott <br /></strong>Oh, yeah. It was great really, really good. It was a good life living out here. I enjoyed it. Kept us all busy and you got to see a lot of people and that’s what it was all about really.</p>
<p>Sometimes I’d be sitting in here—and another part of my duties were, someone pull up—there was a funeral home in Sanford and they’d bury folks in the [Seminole] County cemetery here by the college. They would pull up in the hearse, and I would go to the office, and give them a number, and they would have all the paperwork. Or they would give me a number. I forget how that went back then. I would go over to the cemetery with them and they would have a hole. They had someone—they would drop him off and dig the grave. Sometimes the graves weren’t real deep, because of the water table. But they had a pine box, and I would help them lower the remains—the body—down in to the gravesite and basically, you know, cover it up. And I’d bring back the number or whatever and it would go into the book. But that was just another thing that I did. But yeah. I helped bury a number of people over there. Sometimes the cows would get out of the fence and they’d trample through over there and you could see where they stepped in. it was just a common thing though. It was something to be expected when you had animals like that in a cemetery.</p>
<p>We had a guy that was in the infirmary—Sam McFadden was his name. I was 15 years old and I told him—I said, “Sam, when I turn 18, I’ll take you back to Oviedo.” That’s where he was from. He was a black guy. Really a nice person. He had no legs at all. He was over there probably six-eight years. I forget how many years. So the week I turned 16, and got my regular license, I pulled around, got him down the ramp, picked him up, put him in the passenger seat, and we went to Oviedo. All day long. He hadn’t been over there in years. So I drove him all around Oviedo so he could see people he knew. He would show me where to go and tell me which way he wanted to turn. He had a wonderful day. People gave him money and everything. That probably made his day, you know. He remembered that the rest of his life. He was a real good person. I liked doing things like that. It was part of the experience I got from living over here. He was a great person. Just a little thing I could do to help out.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>That’s fantastic. I bet he did enjoy that.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Oh, yeah. But he didn’t weigh much. I could pick him right up, with no legs.</p>
<p>But, uh, this area—this area was the dining room and they would eat their breakfast, dinner, and supper in here. The kitchen was right through there and they would cook everything. Where the books and all are, that was the pantry. That’s where we kept all the food and stuff. And the little walkway out here— where the colored dining room was. They came up, they ate out here, and the other folks in here ate in here.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>So they essentially put the kitchen in the middle.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>The kitchen—right. It’s where it is now. I guess it’s still a kitchen in there. But that’s what that was. I don’t know if they’ve done anything with the little extension out here or not, I think it’s basically for storage now.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>What was—what was that? The storage [inaudible]?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>[inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Oh, okay.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>No. The dining room.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Got it, got it, got it.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yeah. They would sit on the porch down there. And there was two—there was Willie and Lily. She was ‘bout as big around as she was tall—real short. But they would go down here on [U.S. Route] 17-92—there was big oak trees down there then. They would take their chairs—they had a couple chairs they left down there. I took them down for them, and they would sit there and watch the traffic and wave. People got used to seeing them every day just about. Some people would actually stop and give them money. They’re the same ones that we would take fishing. They loved to fish. It was really great. They enjoyed it. It was something for them to do. ‘Cause you know a place like this you get a certain age, it gets a little boring and a little excitement—you see new people, new cars.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>And somebody stop to chat.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Oh, yeah. People would probably knew[sic] them—that knew they were here. You know, there’s a lot of sad things. People that you get acclimated to living in this area with older people. And you’re a teenager, and you hear all the stories, and you like these people. Then they get sick and pass away. It’s kinda hard on you. But it’s an experience that you never forget. It’s good really. It was really good for me. And I remember a lot of the stories. They were great. Like back years ago when Florida had dirt roads and people rode horses and things like that were some of the stories.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>So you heard some of those?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Oh, yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Well, that’s fascinating.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>‘Cause some of the people—back in 1960, they were 80 years old, so you know they didn’t have the cars. That’s the way it was. All the women stayed in one section and the men stayed in the other. Sometimes they would get to arguing—well, older people like that is—was—kinda comical. But they would. They would get serious and would start arguing. We had one out here named Beautiful Lee. That was his name. He had a business here in Sanford. We had another here, Mr. Barfield. And they didn’t get along too well. Sometimes you had to straighten them out. My dad—he had his hands full.</p>
<p>When we first got here, the beds were really bad. The mattresses were old and soiled. The first thing he did was go to the [Seminole] County commissioners to get funding to where Echols Bedding Company years ago. Came out to haul the mattresses out and put all fresh mattresses in. And like—the people we buried out there. They were just buried—buried without any nice clothes. And dad got to where—they might’ve got them from Goodwill [Industries International, Inc.] or wherever back then—but they had suits when they were buried instead of being buried in a pine box. It was the little things that mattered. He was good about that.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>So you’re saying your dad went in front of the commission to get the beds?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Oh, yeah. When he needed something. Homer Little was on the board of county commissioners back then, and he talked to him about a lot of things. He would go to the meetings and whatever he would bring it up—whatever he really needed. There wasn’t a lot of money, but still yet you know things needed to be done. Because, to be honest with you, it still happens every day. And I hate to see it, but people bring their parents out after they get sick and everything and they can’t help themselves. They bring them out here and sell their house. The kids get their house—get everything. And for the first week or two they’re out here continuously visiting. Then it starts dropping off. Then it’s two weeks. Well, then it’s six months. Then maybe it’s birthday or Christmas. And that’s the way it happens. It happens all the time. It’s sad, but it’s true. I would say 85 percent. Of course, it might be a little different now. I’m sure it is. But it was still sad back then. That’s just the way life is.</p>
<p>But it was nice. We had one man back there next to me—next to my room. And back then, you could smoke. He had emphysema so bad. So they gave him cigarettes for his emphysema that he could smoke that, I guess, helped him or something. Those things smelled so bad. I remember his smoking at night or in the daytime, the whole hallway would smell of his cigarettes. I would have to go to my room and I didn’t like that.</p>
<p>But, uh, it was nice. My brother and sister—they did a lot of work too. There was a little pool right out here in the front—a fishing pond—concrete fishing pond. It’s not there now. My sister, when she was in her teens, would walk up and down take pictures of her walking, because she thought she was something. She had her little small waist and all that then. That’s just the way it was.</p>
<p>I had an old car. I put it in the garage back there that I worked on a little bit when I wasn’t real busy. It was good. The road department was real small down here, and if we needed something from the road department, we could get it and bring it back. It was pretty decent out here. Everyone seemed to work together.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>There’s so many things I really can’t remember. I know with the hogs—we would take them and—Mr. Humphrey was his name—from Lake Mary. He was really big man. He would come over a certain time of the year when it was cool and we would butcher the hogs. They would get so big and so fat from the milk and everything. We would butcher the hogs and then we’d take the hogs up to the freezer and, as needed, we would go there—get the meat—bring it back, and they would cook it. So we always had fresh meat. It was really good. We had beef too. We raised a few bulls and stuff like that once in a while. It was always something. It never stopped.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Doesn’t sound like it. A very self-sufficient organization too, with as many chickens as were out there.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Right. Yeah. We had chickens. We had the pork. Beef. We had eggs. We didn’t buy any eggs. We had like the commodities the corn meal was brought in. The government had left over stuff. And someone hit a deer or something like that, or poached one, they had venison. That’s the way life was back then. We had plenty of vegetables. People would bring stuff like different vegetables out here, and oranges. There was an orange grove all around the place. There was oranges galore. Course, they’re all gone now. Anytime you wanted a real nice orange, just go out and get it. And they did. The people that were able. The rest of them that weren’t able. They looked out for them.</p>
<p>We had a pickup truck that we used. I would use it to go get things when I got my license. I would drive it back and forth in the mornings to feed the hogs—slop the hogs—and stuff. We also had a station wagon that we used. My dad would take the people that live here to the doctor, or to take them to town or something instead of taking them over to the infirmary, if they needed x-rays or something.</p>
<p>There was one black lady. She was really young. I say young—she was probably in her 20s. She was in an accident or got shot or something. I forget what it was, but she couldn’t walk. She was in the infirmary. She didn’t have any money. The county had to take care of her. They took her back and forth to the doctor, kept taking her, not giving up on her. And you know she got to where she could walk. She got out on her own. From what I understand she got married and had kids. But that’s another one of the stories.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>That’s amazing.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yeah. There’s a lot of stories. If I could remember a bunch of them…</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Any time you remember one, give us a call.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yeah, yeah. We did a lot of things out here. I don’t know. I get to thinking about—there’s a few movies that I have. They’re the old 8mm. if I could ever get them off and transferred them over onto something—one of these days, it shows cars parked out here and where we were living we’d be coming in and out of this door, and the garage, the chickens, the whole area. It’s just a small video, but maybe I could put it together.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Oh. That would be fantastic.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yeah. We had out little dogs and stuff. A little dog out here. I had one. We had a wreck down here on the side of the road, and my uncle had worked for Ratliff’s Towing. So I was over there, and walked down to see the car that had been left down there on the side of the road that had been there a couple days. I heard a little noise and there was a puppy under the seat. But it was part Chihuahua. It was a little, small dog. So I brought it back and named it Pooch. That was my dog. And she had the run of the place. Everyone loved her around here. She had the run of the place. Everyone played with her. She was really smart. The newspaperman would come up and make the circle and throw the paper out and we had—there was no air conditioning in here—we had fans. There was the screen door. She could hit it and open it up and then she’d run out. When I saw him coming up, if she didn’t hear him I’d say, “Paper, Pooch,” and she’d run out and get the paper and bring it back in. She was a smart little dog [<em>coughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yeah. It was basically self-sufficient. We took care of everything here. Laundry and the whole nine yards.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Where was the laundry?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>The laundry was back here behind the garage. There was a building back there. That’s where the maids did the laundry. We had, I think, one or two maids that helped. My mom made out all the menus. She did the menus and helped with the cooking and the cleaning in here too. And the maids did the laundry and all in the back—back here.</p>
<p>And my dad—if you go out the back and you go down, there was a boiler down there, and probably still is. That’s how the heat was in here. We had the big radiant things. They had a furnace down there. Actually, it was coal to start with. And we used to have to go down there at night and fill that thing up to keep it warm in here. Then they changed it over to diesel fuel or kerosene or something. Yeah. It had a coal chute. A truck would back up and dump it down in there. That was another job. There was[sic] always things to do. Always.</p>
<p>But they’d get together—a lot of people would get together, like the folks in the back. They would get together sometimes on Sundays and sing and have a good time down there. We all did.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>It sounds like it. Did they keep you cracking on your homework—your schoolwork?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Oh, yeah. Well, I kinda would go against the grain. You know how that goes. I still had to do it. Yeah. You gotta do that afterwards and everything. But on the weekends, being a teenager, you could go somewhere—to the drive-in or the skating rink that used to be up here on 17-92. Course, you didn’t need but a couple dollars. You could get a hamburger, hot dog or whatever, you know, for 25 or 30 cents. It wasn’t very expensive back then. Couple dollars’ worth of gas—you could go everywhere. We’d go—a couple of us would get together—two or three guys—ride around a little bit, go skating, or go to the movies, or hang out. The Movieland Drive-In was here then, years ago. Or the old Ritz [Theatre] downtown. There was a lot to do on the weekends. You could go to the beach.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>There’s not a lot of traffic like there is now. On [Florida State Road] 415, you didn’t run but about 55-60 miles an hour. The old cars would run real fast, but you didn’t run real fast, because you didn’t want to burn it up. You had to save it. But yeah, a lot of things have changed since way back then. Some for the good, some the not so good. Back when I lived in here it’s not like today. Life was simple. It wasn’t expensive. Taxes were cheap, and everyone knew everyone. Now it’s not that way. A lot of people you can’t even speak to them, because you don’t know what language they’re speaking. It’s completely different than what it was back then. But it was really down-to-earth and basic, even though you know it was hard, but it was good. It was really good.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Sounds likes it. Um, you were talking about a brother and sister here at the time too. Were you the oldest or the youngest?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>My older sister, Helen [Scott], her last name is Atkinson now. I was in the middle. My younger brother is Edward Scott. He’s younger than me. Our parents are gone, but we stay in touch. They did a lot of work out here too. We all pitched in.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>And you said you moved to the area when you were six?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yes. I started at Lake Monroe School in 1950, I think. It was just a small school out there. It’s still there. They sold it and a doctor lives in it now. They converted it into a house. Back then, you see guys in first grade that was probably 10 years old, because they were late starting school or they didn’t come to school very often. They progressed on up they were older in the sixth grade. But it was a good school. I had a lot of fun there. Then I went to Sanford Junior High School on Ninth [Street] and Sanford Avenue.</p>
<p>And then from there to Seminole High, out on the hill out there. And then the new Seminole High was built and I started my sophomore year there. Freshman year on the hill and then the new high school. They built the one that’s out there now. And it was all just palmettos and pine trees when they were building that. You just had to go out through there. Yeah. I went to high school there. Back where the college is here—that was just a nothing. It was just a power line road that went through. It went over to Lake Mary. That’s what we would use to go to the lake the back way. And some of us—myself and my brother—we would take our old clunker car. We didn’t have a license, but we would drive the back road through the woods and everything. It was a lot of fun [<em>coughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>The power line road was the one you were talking about taking people fishing?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yeah. You would go down to the road department, and turn left. Then go down, and then you could make a right, and it would take you back out to the cemetery and to Lake Mary Boulevard. It wasn’t much of a boulevard then, because it would dead-end up there before they opened it up and did all that. Or you could go to the road department and make a left, then it would take you down and around. It was just a mud hole on each side. It was a road built up for the power line use and it was a shortcut to Lake Mary. We’d go over there and go swimming or whatever sometimes. But there was nothing back there then. There was a lot of orange trees all around. This out in the front was a pasture. The pasture actually went out and all the way around and ended up almost past the cemetery almost to Lake Mary Boulevard back where the houses are.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>So the orange grove went that far? Or the pasture?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>The pasture did. The orange grove started from the road department—the end of their little road and then all back around this whole place around here was orange grove. This whole place around here was orange grove. Even back on this side, there was an orange grove going back. So there was a lot of oranges.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Sounds like it.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>I think we had five cows. I think Will milked about five cows. Plus, when they would have a calf, we would raise it up for beef or sell it or something or butcher it up. I’m not sure what happened to most of them. I know we always had plenty of meat in the freezer in town. I forget the name of the locker. It was there on Thirteenth Street where we kept everything. But they would cut it, dress it, pack it, freeze it, hang it or whatever we needed.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>You said up on Thirteenth Street was the freezer locker?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>That’s where it was. Back when Sheriff Poppy[sp] was the sheriff here years ago. I don’t know what else you need to know or if there’s anything you can think of.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Um, I had a question about what they call the “Agricultural Building” now. The building back behind that’s part of the museum. That wasn’t here though.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>No. Back where the new building is now?</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>The loop went around the back of this building, because nothing was here. Made the loop and that was the infirmary. That’s where the infirmary was. Rachel Lee was the nurse there.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Okay. But that area is where the infirmary was, but it’s not the building that was the infirmary?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Right. The infirmary was when you walk out this one door here, you go straight across the driveway and that was the infirmary. And then on the other side was where the coloreds lived—in their section there, in the corner down there. And the loop went all the way around the place.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Okay. You were saying earlier about the big tree up front providing shade.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Oh, yeah. The camphor tree. I was telling you earlier that I would go out on the porch with all the old men here, and I would sit out on the porch in the afternoon. It was a real good shade, and we would sit out there with the breeze blowing. That’s where I heard most of my stories from all the old folks. The men—they would sit out there, and they would tell me about the history of when they moved to Florida—whenever they’d come. And they rode horses, and they drove Model Ts, and there was a dirt road going to Orlando and all kind of stuff .and I guess that’s where the Crackers come in were popping the whips and stuff. It was interesting. We would sit under that tree, and it was a big tree then, on the porch.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>That’s interesting. Were they—did any of them work in cattle ranching? Any of the stories that you heard?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /> </strong>Oh, yeah. They would move cattle in Florida for miles, especially around the Kissimmee area way back then. It was mostly swamp—a lot of it was swamp. They would talk about some of the things that occurred moving one herd of cows to the next place or wherever. Some of them, like I said, even in 1960—they were up in their 80s, so they knew a lot about this before any of us was even thought of.</p>
<p>They lived a good life, a lot of them. And this was their last place. The last stop was here. They didn’t have anything else to do and here I am—15 years old—and I’m sitting out there just listening, and they loved to tell me their stories. Sometimes I’d hear the same story over two or three times, but it was still interesting.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>I bet so. Any railroaders? I was looking at some video when the railroad marker dedication was, but I didn’t know if anybody here when you were here who was involved in that.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>No. Actually there weren’t. I can’t remember anyone that worked for the railroad that was here years ago, but I do remember a lot of the trains. Growing up, I remember the diesels—when they first started running the diesels and stuff like that. I’ve seen steam engines and stuff. Not a lot of railroad people that I remember lived out here. Basically railroad people—I think the reason for that was when they worked for the railroad, they got a retirement. And see, their retirement took care of them when they got sick and that was basically the reason why they didn’t put them in the Old Folks Home. People that were out here were—they worked all their life and didn’t have anything left—basically, no retirement or anything else so they qualified for the [Seminole] County to take care of them, and that’s where they ended up. Their folks put them in here.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>So they were more the ones who worked for themselves in a way?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Right. Some of them had businesses they were really doing good[sic] through the years. But like I said earlier, when they get to a certain point in their life or they get sick and their family can’t take care of them or don’t want to take care of them, and so they basically take away everything so they ended up here. It’s a cruel way to look at it, but they were actually better off here. They got waited on, they had plenty to eat, they had a nice place to sleep, and whatever, you know. If they really wanted to go visit someplace, their family would come up once in a while and take them out and bring them back so it wasn’t bad. It made it easier on everyone probably.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Um, I had thought of another question. What type of work did your dad do before he got this job?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Uh, my dad [<em>coughs</em>]—he was a used car salesman actually. He was in the Military. He could do about anything, really. Carpenter work or whatever. Whatever it took growing up to make a living, that’s basically what he did. But he was a car salesman. He was in a dealership. Well, I think the guy that he worked for and him were the only two, but they had a real nice car lot and he was selling cars. Buying and selling cars [<em>coughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Interesting. Was it there in Sanford then?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yes. It was in Sanford. Of course, there’s[sic] buildings there now. Where his car lot was—actually years ago, when he first started selling cars was there on Second [Street] and Sanford Avenue. If you know where the post office is downtown, but there’s a lot right there with a big oak tree on it where Larry’s [New & Used] Mart used to be. Well, it wasn’t years ago, but that was a car lot. The tree wasn’t so big back then. They had cars all around on that corner there. Then they moved up like on Ninth [Street] and Sanford Avenue and sold cars up there. But yeah it was interesting. I always loved cars, I still do. I’ve got old cars and trucks. It gets in your blood. But, yeah. That’s what he did.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Uh, you mentioned earlier too—one of the trees out back here on the property on the Old Folks Home was an oak tree?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yeah. There was some oak trees. They were having a fundraiser—or I don’t know what it was—but they wanted to sell oak trees for $100, or whatever it was when they were doing it. And you could dedicate it or whatever to whomever you wanted to for the members that was here, and I got one in memory of my mom and dad, Grady and Flora Scott. But they didn’t put any markers or anything on it, so when you go out there, you think it’s just like another tree planted. I would like to see them one of these days go back in the records to find out who did that and put some little something in recognition of who it’s for. But they haven’t done that, and I’m sure it’s an oversight that never got taken care of.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>I’m sure it is too. I would like to see—if you don’t mind, when we’re wrapping up, if you’d show me which ones they were out there we can get that documented.</p>
<p>Anything else for your childhood that sticks out for you—growing up here or even before you got here—that makes you chuckle now?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Oh, there’s a lot of things [<em>laughs</em>]. I was a middle kid. I’ve got a younger brother and an older sister. I was the one that was in between. Growing up, if you got in trouble in school, you got tanned a little bit by the principal. Then you got home your mother did it. Then when your dad got home he took care of it. So it was one, two, three. And you didn’t do that anymore. I basically raised my kids the same way—in a way that I would set them down when they got in trouble and we would talk about it and we’d determine the punishment. It would be kinda up to them. They turned out really, really great. Hopefully my grandkids will be the same way. But it’s not like it was. It’s a little harder. There’s not a lot of “Yes, sir,” “No, sir” stuff anymore.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Not a whole lot. No.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>My two boys still say, “Yes, sir” to me. They’re in their 40s. There’s a lot of things that I try to instill in people, especially the younger generation—my kids, my grandkids, or whatever. Because I’ve seen so many people that’s passed on—I’ve been with them when they’ve passed on. Even at a young age, like I was out here, and you miss them.</p>
<p>But when you see a person that’s 80 years old or 60 years old or whatever, and they’re sick and you’ve been knowin’ this person for a long time—it doesn’t matter if you know them or not. But when you see them there and they don’t recognize you hardly but they try—don’t think of that person as what you see. Think of that person that you knew. That same person’s still inside there. Talk to them just as if they were 20 years old or 30 years old, or when you knew them and times were good. Talk to them the same way as when you knew them, because they’re still the same person. I don’t care if they weigh 60 pounds with cancer and they’re 80 years old and they’re dying. They’re still the same person as they were when they were 15 years old or 25, and out here dancing and having a good time. And that’s what I like to see people think of instead of, you know. I don’t want to be around them. That’s the wrong attitude to take. The person’s still in there. That’s the way I look at it.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>That’s great advice.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>It works for me.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>There’s a lot true in that.</p>
<p>Um, yeah. We could walk around there to the trees and then we’ll see what we can make note of here.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Sure.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Back out this way, right?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yes. This was the living room.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>This was the living room?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>This was where they sat around and watched TV. Like I said, my room was down there on the end where Kim’s office is. And where your office is, that was two rooms too I think.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Yeah. It probably was.</p>
<p>So the—and then, were the—you said the women and men were separated?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yes. The women I believe lived in this area and the men lived in the other wing.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>And then the colored section was out there?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Okay.Thanks. I’m trying to orient.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>I thought they had some pictures out here. I don’t see anything.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Well, they do change the pictures around.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Every now and then too. Sorry. Excuse us. That’s okay. I just don’t want to step on it. Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>This right here was the colored dining area.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Right. We use that for storage now.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>The driveway came here around the building. About where those gates are was a building—a big wood building—and that was where the colored folks lived. And that was orange grove. Straight on down—probably about where that stop sign is, where that car just went through—through the orange grove that was the barn. The cows would come across the road in the evening. They would walk right across, and Will would milk them, and I would go down and bring the milk back up to the kitchen here. This is the kitchen. Straight across here was the infirmary where the new building is. The driveway went around to the infirmary. To the left back in this area was a washhouse. Right here was a garage, and the other side of that was a big chicken coop. That’s where we had the chickens. On down in the front down here, across from the barn on the right, was the hog pen, and that’s where I had to take the hog slop. This was all orange grove, even all the way around in the back. Where that building is over there that was orange grove. This was a field out here all the way over to where the fire station is. We had to keep a lot of that mowed.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>You said the pasture came up this way?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>The pasture part actually started in front of the building right here to the left of the driveway. That was pasture all the way around. On the other side of the road, all the way around way back past the cemetery. There’s a lot of acreage back there. It was all pasture. I’m sure you know where the cemetery is.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>I haven’t been, so I don’t have an idea.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>It’s just on down past the tower. But that was basically the layout of the place here. We had deliveries. In between here you go down to the bottom. That’s where the boiler room…</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>So in between these two porches here?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yeah. Let’s take a look.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>You go through there and go down to the right. And you’ll see it looks like a cellar, but that’s the boiler room. They’ve changed it now. The oak trees have got to be this oak tree, that one. I think they’re planted all around.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Now were you here when any of them were planted?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>No. It was probably four or five years ago. Now this was all driveway here. And by where we’re standing now is where the garage was. And the chicken coop was on up. There was some big oak trees planted there, that’s where we parked the cars on the superintendent’s side.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Because this was the front?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Right. This was our entrance. We used this entrance. The office is in the front right there. Deliveries would come around back up between the two buildings here and go into the kitchen. They’d back the trucks in there to drop things off and pick things up.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>It makes sense, but it’s different to see it, because what is the front entrance now was the side.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Right. The office was the main thing back then. Back in the late ‘50s, this was a two-lane road. Then they started to changing[sic] it and made it into a four-lane. And they finally opened it up. There was some oak trees down there. I think they’re gone now—the big oak trees—but there’s where Lily and Willie used to sit and watch the traffic under the oak trees.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>On the other side of this road here?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Oh, yeah. Right there on the edge of 17-92. That’s where they would sit and people would blow their horns at them.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>You said it was two-lane then?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Well, actually it was four-lane, but the road wasn’t finished until about 1960. Then it was four-lane. There used to be a little tavern right there. I guess the building’s still there. They had some bad wrecks people pulling out after it was four-lane, because they weren’t used to it.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>I bet.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>I do have some movie clips of coming up here and parking cars and walking to the garage and stuff here. Some of my friends—when I was a teenager, we’d come back from the beach and walk up and down through here, play with the dog and stuff. If I could ever get them all together. But the oak trees, I guess, are these. I’m not sure. You can see them planted all around. I have no idea how many they ended up planting.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>I don’t either. We’ll see what we can find out about that.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Well, it would be nice. Even if there was just one little sign that said, “Oak trees planted in memory of…” Or something like that. That’s a nice building.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Yes. It is. It’s a great space in there too, for displays and presentations. I’m sure you’ve seen it.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>The infirmary was there and that’s when I pulled up there. There was a ramp to the infirmary. And when I was 16—I turned 16—I pulled the car around and I saw Sam McFadden, with no legs—black guy. I would visit him. He’d come out and get a little sun once in a while. I told him, “Sam, I’m going to take you to Oviedo when I get my license.” And he just couldn’t wait. When I pulled up there that day, and they wheeled him down in the chair to the car. I had the door open. I set him in that car. His face was all lit up. He’d been in there for so many years. He loved it. I think it did me more good than it did him.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Sure. Doing something like that for somebody else.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>When they closed this place down, I tried to get in touch with him and the rest of them. They moved him to [inaudible] and whatever home. I don’t know what happened to him. I tried to do a follow up, but I never could.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Is that home in Sanford?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yeah. It was on West Ninth Street I believe it was.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>West Ninth?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>They changed a few things around.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /> </strong>Like I said, I don’t know where the pictures are out here. They used to have I don’t know how many pictures.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>I’m sure we still have them somewhere.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yeah. Probably.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Thank you very much for your time, Dave. I appreciate it.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>It’s not a problem. I enjoy doing it. I ramble on too much sometimes when I get to talking because most of the memories are really good. I try to delete all the bad stuff.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>]Well, for our purposes the rambling is good [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>Yeah. There’s some bad stuff. Sam lived right here in this one room right here and he was an old man. A good friend of mine. He was real quiet. He loved it when I moved back here, because he had someone to talk to.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Was he the one with emphysema?</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>No. That was another man. They had moved him in there afterwards—after Sam passed away. Then I missed him. Then the other guy with emphysema cigarettes—oh, that about killed me. Then he passed away too. People—some of them stayed here a few years. They hung around. But a lot of them were really bad when they brought them in.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Yeah. I imagine so.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /></strong>But that’s about it.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /> </strong>Okay. Thank you again.</p>
<p><strong>Scott<br /> </strong>If you can remember anything or want me for anything, just give me a call.</p>
<p><strong>Holcomb<br /></strong>Yeah. Thank you.</p>
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<p><a title="">[1]</a> Grady Scott.</p>
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<p><a title="">[2]</a> Flora Scott.</p>
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assisted living
Barfield
Beautiful Lee
burials
camphor trees
cattle ranchers
cattle ranching
cemeteries
cemetery
chickens
Chihuahua
crackers
David Scott
dogs
Downtown Sanford
Echols Bedding Company
Edward Scott
elderly
Flora Scott
Grady Scott
graves
Helen Scott
Helen Scott Atkinson
Holcomb, Susan
Homer Little
Humphrey
Kim Nelson
Kissimmee
Lake Mary
Lake Monroe School
Larry's New & Used Mart
Movieland Drive-In
Museum of Seminole County History
nursing homes
Old Folks Home
orange groves
oranges
Oviedo
pastures
pigs
Poppy
race relations
Rachel Lee
Ratliff Towing
retirement homes
Ritz Theatre
Sam McFradden
Sanford
Sanford Junior High School
segregation
Seminole High School
Susan Holcomb
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History Harvest Collection
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History Harvest Collection
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Sanford (Fla.)
Schools
Elementary schools
Grammar schools
High schools--Florida
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The Student Museum Collection encompasses historical artifacts donated for digitization at the Student Museum History Harvest in the Spring semester of 2013.
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<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
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eng
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Collection
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Sanford High School, Sanford, Florida
Westside Grammar Elementary School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Grammar School, Sanford, Florida
Student Museum, Sanford, Florida
UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida
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<a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a>
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>
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Cepero, Laura
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"<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Public History Center</a>." Public History Center, University of Central Florida. http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/.
"<a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a>." Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx.
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1 newspaper article
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Title
Names Make 'The News'
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Names Make 'The News'
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Sanford (Fla.)
High schools--Florida
High schools--Alumni and alumnae
High schools--Buildings
High schools--History--20th century
Glee clubs
Students--Florida
Schools
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Newspaper article about Glee Club presentation of Arthur Sullivan's and William Schwenck Gilbert's <em>H.M.S. Pinafore</em> on at Seminole High School on March 31, 1944. Actors and roles included: Neil Powell as Sir Joseph Porter, Dick Aiken as Captain Corcoran, Bob Crumley as Ralph Rackstraw, Bob Callahan as Dick Deadeye, M. L. "Sonny" Raborn as Bill Bobstay, Wayde Rucker as Bob Beckett, Lucy Ward as Josephine, Bobbynette Beard as Cousin Hebe, and Mildred "Bouffie" Robson as Mrs. "Little Buttercup" Cripps. The opera was directed by Ruther Jackson, with Catherine Clark as accompanist and Carey Meekins as dance advisor.<br /><br />Located at 301 West Seventh Street in Sanford, Florida, Seminole High School was originally established as Sanford High School in 1902. The building was designed by W. G. Talley in the Romanesque revival style. Due to an increasing student population, a new school building was constructed on Sanford Avenue in 1911. The original building on Seventh Street served as Westside Grammar Elementary School, which was later renamed Sanford Grammar School. In 1984, the building was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places and converted into the Student Museum. The building reopened as the University of Central Florida's Public History Center in 2012. In 1927, a high school campus was designed by Elton J. Moughton in the Mediterranean revival style and constructed at 1700 French Avenue. The school reopened on January 10 and was renamed Seminole High School. In 1960, the high school moved to a new campus at 2701 Ridgewood Avenue and the former building on French Avenue was converted to Sanford Junior High School, which was later renamed Sanford Middle School. The old building was demolished in the summer of 1991 and replaced by a $5.77 million school complex. As of 2013, Seminole High School offers various Advanced Placement courses, the Academy for Health Careers, and the International Baccalaureate Programme for students.
Creator
Stenstrom, Julian
Source
Original newspaper article by Julian Stenstrom: "Names Make 'The News.'" <a href="http://mysanfordherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Sanford Herald</em></a>, June 2, 1991, pages 1A and 5A: Private Collection of Walter Smith.
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<a href="http://mysanfordherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Sanford Herald</em></a>
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ca. 1991-06-02
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1991-06-02
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Smith, Walter
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Digital reproduction of original newspaper article by Julian Stenstrom: "Names Make 'The News.'" <a href="http://mysanfordherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Sanford Herald</em></a>, June 2, 1991, pages 1A and 5A.
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<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/1669" target="_blank">Smith, Walter</a>. Interviewed by John Settle. <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, HAR 1063392P. March 2, 2013. Video record available. UCF Public History Center.
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Seminole High School, Sanford, Florida
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Originally created by Julian Stenstrom and published by <a href="http://mysanfordherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Sanford Herald</em></a>.
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Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="http://mysanfordherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Sanford Herald</em></a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
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<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a> History Harvest, Spring 2013
Curator
Steele, Kris
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank"> RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.seminolehs.scps.k12.fl.us/" target="_blank">Seminole High School</a>." Seminole High School, Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.seminolehs.scps.k12.fl.us/.
Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53015288" target="_blank"><em>Sanford</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.
<span>Sullivan, Arthur, Bryceson Treharne, and W. S. Gilbert. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1931538" target="_blank"><em>H.M.S. Pinafore: Or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor</em></a></span><span>. New York: G. Schirmer, 1860.</span>
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1991-06-02
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Original newspaper article by Julian Stenstrom: "Names Make 'The News.'" <a href="http://mysanfordherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Sanford Herald</em></a>, June 2, 1991, pages 1A and 5A.
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<a href="http://mysanfordherald.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Sanford Herald</em></a>, June 2, 1991, pages 1A and 5A.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/73" target="_blank">Seminole County Public Schools Collection</a>, Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
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Brower, Nancy
Brumley, Herman
Callahan, Bob
Cameron, Shirley
Captain Corcoran
Clark, Catherine
Clark, Dorothy
Clark, Louise
Column, Nancy
Conelly, Daphne
Cousin Hebe
Cranston, Ralph
Dean, Rolland
Dick Deadeye
Dunn, Doris
Eich, Shirley
Evans, Roberta
Florida National Guard
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Geiger, Robert
Gilbert, William Schwenck
Gleason, Hanel Matthews, Harriet
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H.M.S. Pinafore
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high school
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Hoge, Leroy
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Jackson, Ruth
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Matthews, Evelyn
Matthieux, Mildred
Matthieux, Orrie
McWhorter, Elsie
Meekins, Carey
Meisch, Sylvia
Miller, Betty
Morrison, Dorothy
Morrison, Sallie
Mrs. Cripps
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Park, Charles Sr.
Perkins, Martha
Phyllis
Powell, Neil
Raborn, M. L. "Sonny"
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Robson, Mildred
Rucker, Wayde
Sacket, Milton
Sanford
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Seminole High School Glee Club
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Stevens, Rebecca
Sullivan, Arthur
Tew, Mary Helen
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Title
Creative Sanford, Inc. Collection
Alternative Title
Creative Sanford Collection
Subject
Seminole County (Fla.)
Folk plays
Sanford (Fla.)
Description
<span>Creative Sanford, Inc. is a non-profit organization created to manage <em>Celery Soup: Florida's Folk Life Play</em> community theater productions. The original idea for the Celery Soup project came from Jeanine Taylor, the owner of a folk-art gallery on First Street in Sanford, Florida. Their first production was </span><em>Touch and Go</em><span>, a play focusing on the people of Sanford and their determination to overcome various obstacles, including the Freeze of 1894-1895, the fall of Sanford's celery industry, and the closing of Naval Air Station (NAS) Sanford in the 1960s. In the process of producing the show, Creative Sanford decided to rehabilitate an historic building, the Princess Theater, which is located on 115 West First Street and owned by Stephen Tibstra. The Creative Sanford offices are housed in the Historic Sanford Welcome Center, located at 203 East First Street.</span>
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<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/16" target="_blank">Sanford Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
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eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Historic Sanford Welcome Center, Downtown Sanford, Florida
Princess Theater, Downtown Sanford, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
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<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.celerysoupsanford.com//about" target="_blank">WHO IS CREATIVE SANFORD, INC?</a>" Celery Soup. http://www.celerysoupsanford.com//about.
<span>"<a href="http://www.celerysoupsanford.com/about/" target="_blank">About: History and Purpose</a>." Celery Soup. http://www.celerysoupsanford.com/about/.</span>
"<a href="http://www.communityperformanceinternational.org/sanford-florida" target="_blank">Sanford, Florida: How do you make Celery Soup? Add stories, then stir</a>." Community Performance International. http://www.communityperformanceinternational.org/sanford-florida.
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<a href="http://www.celerysoupsanford.com/" target="_blank">Creative Sanford, Inc.</a>
Oral History
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Interviewer
Thompson, Trish
Román-Toro, Freddie
Interviewee
Black, Patricia Ann
Hardy, Billy
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Title
Oral History of Patricia Ann Black and Billy Hardy
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Oral History, Black and Hardy
Subject
Sanford, (Fla.)
Education--Florida
Race relations--Florida
Army
Description
An oral history of both Patricia Ann Black (b. 1956) and Billy Hardy (b. 1956). Hardy was born on August 17, 1956, and Black was born 14 days later on August 31. Both grew up at the end of Tenth Street in Sanford, Florida. This oral history interview was conducted by Trish Thompson and Freddie Román-Toro.<br /><br />Hardy and Black attended Hopper Elementary School through sixth grade, Lakeview Middle School for seventh grade, Sanford Junior High School for eighth grade, Crooms High School for ninth grade, and Seminole High School through twelfth grade. They talk about what life was like in Sanford during segregation and what happened to make integration possible. Black talks about what her education in New York was like when compared to that in Sanford. Hardy discusses how football helped ameliorate tensions among blacks and whites. He also shares his experiences in the Army. Black and Hardy also discuss their childhood romance and how circumstances changed their relationship. Hardy also speaks about his time in technical school and his passion for cars. Other topics include the differences between attending school in New York and Florida, the Trayvon Martin case, and the sexual abuse of Black as a child.
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Black, Patricia and Billy Hardy. Interviewed by Trish Thompson and Freddie Román-Toro. March 2013. Audio record available. <a href="http://www.celerysoupsanford.com//about" target="_blank">Creative Sanford, Inc.</a>, Sanford, Florida.
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<a href="http://www.celerysoupsanford.com//about" target="_blank">Creative Sanford, Inc. Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
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Digital 22-page transcript of original oral history: Black, Patricia and Billy Hardy. Interviewed by Trish Thompson and Freddie Román-Toro. March 2013. Audio record available. <a href="http://www.celerysoupsanford.com//about" target="_blank">Creative Sanford, Inc.</a>, Sanford, Florida.
Coverage
Hopper Academy, Sanford, Florida
Lakeview Middle School, Winter Garden, Florida
Sanford Junior High School, Sanford, Florida
Crooms High School, Sanford, Florida
Seminole High School, Sanford, Florida
Creator
Thompson, Trish
Román-Toro, Freddie
Black, Patricia Ann
Hardy, Billy
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2013-03
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application/pdf
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198 KB
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22-page digital transcript
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eng
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History Teacher
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Originally created by Trish Thompson, Freddie Román-Toro, Patricia Ann Black, and Billy Hardy.
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Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="http://www.celerysoupsanford.com//about" target="_blank">Creative Sanford, Inc.</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
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<a href="http://www.celerysoupsanford.com//about" target="_blank">Creative Sanford, Inc.</a>
<a href="http://www.celerysoupsanford.com/" target="_blank">Celery Soup</a>
Curator
Román-Toro, Freddie
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<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.celerysoupsanford.com//about" target="_blank">Creative Sanford, Inc.</a>
External Reference
Gilmore, Henry Francis. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78907105" target="_blank"><em>A Study of Attitudes of Negro Teachers Toward the Supreme Court Decision and Other Issues of Desegregation in Education</em></a>. Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1957.
Humphrey, Hubert H. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/189150" target="_blank"><em>Integration vs. Segregation</em></a>. New York: Crowell, 1964.
Jenkins, Sallie S. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52692084" target="_blank"><em>A Historical Investigation of School Desegregation in Seminole County School District</em></a>. Thesis (EdD.)--University of Central Florida, 2002, 2002.
Kharif, Wali Rashash. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10501914" target="_blank"><em>The Refinement of Racial Segregation in Florida After the Civil War</em></a>. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 1983, 1983.
Yancy, George, and Janine Jones. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/810119075" target="_blank"><em>Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics</em></a>. Lanham: Lexington Boos, 2013.
Transcript
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>How did y’all meet? [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>We grew up at the end of Tenth Street. Our house was the last house on the street. And it just so happened that my birthday was August 17<sup>th</sup>, 1956 and yours was…</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>Mine was August 31<sup>st</sup>, 1956. And we’re like 14 days apart and our mothers carried us at the same time. And we’re at the dead end of East Tenth Street. so I’m at the corner and he’s at the end. It was just us two kids. There were others in the neighborhood, but…</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>Not as close as we were.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>So you went all through school together?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>Pretty much.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>What school?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>In elementary school, it was Hopper [Academy]—between Eleventh [Street] and Celery Avenue—and afterwards, it was Lakeview [Middle School] for seventh grade, I think.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>Yeah. We were 12 at Lakeview and we went to Sanford Junior High [School] at 13.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>And where was Sanford Junior then?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>That’s Sanford Middle School now. It’s the same one.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Oh. It’s on [U.S. Route] 17-92.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>Yes. The next year we went to Crooms [High School], which became our ninth grade. Then we went to Seminole [High School].</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>So you were there for the integration of—or you were one year after?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>No. We were in the midst of it.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>We were in fourth grade when that began to happen, so we kind of had a choice for our fifth grade. Our parents could decide if they wanted to send us to the other school, because they didn’t close Hopper or anything like that.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>It just made an opportunity to go to other schools, if they wanted to, but we stayed. It was right around the corner [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>We lived one block away. It was on the corner of Eleventh and Bay [Avenue] and we lived on Tenth and Bay so—my parents left the choice up to me, because all my life I’ve always gone to integrated schools. I began school in New York state and…</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Oh, so you left?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>I would leave every year. My father was a migrant crew leader, but they lived here. They stayed here. My parents’ work was as a migrant to carry people up north to pick apples—to harvest the fruit.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>And so you went to school up there every year? So you were just home in summertime?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>And I spent all my summers in New York. I began school in New York and I would end it here every school year. From September to November, up to the week before Thanksgiving, I would go to school in New York. Then we’d come down here and I’d finish school. And it used to be June 6<sup>th</sup> that would be the last day of school, and then as we got older it would be June 11<sup>th</sup>. The next day, my mom and I would get on a Greyhound bus and go to Rochester[, New York] to visit with my sisters, and my father would come up around July 5<sup>th</sup>—out to the migrant camp that we lived on.</p>
<p><strong>Román-Toro<br /></strong>Could you elaborate on the differences between going to school up North and coming to school here?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>Yes. I sure can. For me, it was more of a freedom. When I’m in New York, I could be myself. I could be all that I thought I could be. I went to school with whites. I started out with whites, so in school, there was no limit to what we were taught we could be—even the black students.</p>
<p>However, down here I had to go to an all-black school, which wasn’t a problem, as far as it being black. I knew I fit in there. However, at a very early age, I learned the difference. It was kind of sad for me, especially by sixth grade, I had a grip on what was going on. I didn’t like when I got to Florida, I had to feel “less than.”</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>When you were in Florida, did you feel like the teachers didn’t tell you you could be all that you could be? Did the teachers treat you different in the North and South?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>No, but there is a difference and I saw the difference. The teachers here did all they could, but you still left school thinking that you could go no higher than a teacher. We weren’t taught about, “You could be a doctor one day.” This is what I remember.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Billy, how about you?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>Just like she was saying earlier. we were in that situation and, as far as going to school, that’s what we did. We knew we had to go. we knew we had to have an education, so we went. The thing about Sanford during that time was that we lived over here and they lived over there. In other words, the black part of town was over here, and the white part was over here, and our parents taught us, “You don’t go over there.”</p>
<p>There were many parts of time that—I’ll tell you what, as I came home from service, after 23 years of service, there were parts of town that I had never seen. When I came home, I was right down Melonville [Avenue] and I said, “I’m going over here,” and I did. I rode on through the neighborhoods and I was like…</p>
<p><strong>Román-Toro<br /></strong>How’d you feel about that? How’d you feel about having that opportunity to go wherever you wanted?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>After being in the service, basically, I was going everywhere I wanted anyway, so when I came home it didn’t matter anymore. [<em>laughs</em>] The door was swung wide open. When I joined the Army, the door was open so wide, it wasn’t black or white anymore. It was green. We were fighting for one purpose and one cause and that was it. Sometimes prejudice situations came up, but it wasn’t a big thing. It was pretty much—it happened. It was controlled. It was dealt with, and that was the end of it. Growing up as a child, I had to stay where my parents told me to stay.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Did it make you feel fearful—them telling you that you can’t go there?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>It bothered me. It really bothered me, because Sundays—you know, Sunday afternoon—after a Sunday meal, everybody’s been to church. We would go out to the schoolhouse and play football. It was all the guys in the neighborhood and we would have a blast. Gosh, we would just play football all day.</p>
<p>What happened was, some of the guys from the other side of town—the white guys—came and saw us playing football at the schoolhouse—and this is kind of what got the ball running as far as the integration part. We played ball. They played ball. We played ball over here, but they played ball over there, so when they came over and a group of them decided, “Let’s go ask. Let’s go talk,” and we began to talk and things began to change. I think there was more to it than that, but that was one of the changes I saw.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>So you and your peers—black and white—you made the decision to integrate before your parents?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>Our parents didn’t decide for us to integrate. It was the white man. It wasn’t our parents. I believe that all of our black parents would rather have kept us where we were. They feared. They wouldn’t have sent us out to white schools, but as time went on, white people had to make a change, so that’s where it came about. We didn’t care that it was integrated. We were fine just where we were. I chose not to go. They gave us a choice. It was a very easy decision for me. I had been looking at white people all my life, and honestly, I was afraid of the white people down here, because here there was always that segregation, but in New York—so I knew there was a difference.</p>
<p>The white people in the South – he probably could name some white kids that we went to school with. I can’t. There were no relationships with any of the white kids that we went to school with. It’s like…</p>
<p><strong>Román-Toro<br /></strong>So you were segregated, even when you weren’t segregated is what you’re saying? When segregation started informally, and then later formally, did you trust it? Did you trust that it was for sincere reasons? or did you suspect that there was an agenda behind it?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>Well, I suspected that there was an agenda behind it—that they were being forced to make it happen. They didn’t want us. They didn’t think it was the right time to do this. There was a force behind it.</p>
<p>When I—in fifth grade, in New York state—well, I had heard it while in fourth grade down here—but in fifth grade in New York state, when it was time to move back down here in November, I remember that all the kids thought that I was so smart in school down here. The books that they were learning through, I had already studied and completed in New York.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>So you were getting second-hand books in Florida?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>And in fifth grade, the books were coming from the North. Yes, because when I got here and went to school and for Thanksgiving, the guy next to me, Willie Jones—when he opened his geography book—in the front they have whose name is in it and then they have the school stamp up in the corner. And there it was: “NRW,” which was North Rose-Wolcott [High] School—that I went to. I was just floored, and I went home very upset with my father, because I had asked him, “How do these books get from New York to Florida?” He told me he didn’t know, but in fifth grade I had my own evidence. I saw the book and I just—it was just never a good feeling for me.</p>
<p>That’s where my—I am a big advocate for diversity and I have been ever since then—and with Martin Luther King[, Jr.] and John F. Kennedy—for me, in my life, even with what I was going through, I was going to be what Martin Luther King was talking about—black and white kids holding hands and walking to school together. I was going to show white people that that could be done, because I knew there was a difference between the whites in the South and the whites in the North and you’re all white, you know?</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>I want to go back just for a minute. When you said your parents wouldn’t let you go there, did your parents explain why they didn’t want you going in those neighborhoods?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>Well, basically they didn’t want us going over there because it was trouble. Some of the experiences—I mean, I got dogs sicced on me. I got to the point where I just got fed up by a lot of stuff and it was—I walked to the store one day, and this guy sicced his dog on me. He had one big one and one little one, and they didn’t bite me, because I guess I was a pretty good size as a kid. I would jump at one, he’d run and the other one would try to get me and I’d jump at him, you know? I tell you what, the hatred that built up in me during that time—I was going to kill the dogs, but they died. I had something on the inside that really bothered me for a long time. and when we left Hopper and went to Lakeview it was like a big melting pot.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>What year would that have been?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>We were 12. That would have been [19]68. We were 12 years old.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Because the integration of Crooms didn’t happen ‘til 1970.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>We were 14 at the time. Crooms was in ninth grade. Lakeview was built for the seventh grade—for all of us. Everybody was going to have to go to Lakeview.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>We fought every day. every day. They shut the school down once, because we fought so much. I mean, it was lunch time, and here come the buses, and it was a mess. I could honestly say that the class of ’74, from Lakeview all the way up to high school, we fought.</p>
<p>Just to take it even a step further, I played football. My thing was football. I was big in sports, and it got to the point where I just decided, “What are we fighting for? I’m tired of fighting.” Did you see the movie <em>Remember the Titans</em>? We finally came together Homecoming. It took Homecoming in the 11<sup>th</sup> grade for us to come together—actually, in the 12<sup>th</sup> grade. It took Homecoming for us to come together. We were down 7-6, and we got in that huddle, and we looked at each other and decided, “That’s it. We’re going to do this.” That was the first time we joined hands and said, “That’s it. No more.” We were on defense, and I was on defense, because I played both ways. when the game started, I was on the field from then to the time the game was over. Gosh, their quarterback dropped back for a pass and we rushed him hard. And he dropped back and he threw it and one of the quarterbacks—I’ll never forget it, Jimmy Clemens, a white guy, intercepted it. We formed a wall and we wiped out everybody and Jimmy ran in for the touchdown and we won the game.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>But didn’t you all go to the state [championship] that year?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>No. We didn’t. We didn’t go to state. I’ll tell you what—it took that to bring us together. We really had a time. We really did.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>It wasn’t every black or white person, but it was certain ones that they had been…</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>It was certain ones. I’ll give you a good example. I have a good friend named Pat Howard, okay? Pat were[sic] practicing one day, and I was on offense at the time. Pat intercepted the ball, and I hit him pretty hard. We were in the shower and I wasn’t expecting Pat to come up to me. He said, “You tried to kill me out there.” I said, “Coach is wearing us out out there. Nah. I didn’t try to kill you.” I said, “You all right?” He said, “Yeah.” We shook it off. The next day we got ready to line up and the coach blew the whistle. He said, “Hardy? You’re over there on defense next to Howard.” Now we’re on the same side. Now it’s getting good. “Don’t come this way,” I said. “I don’t care who you are—black or white. Don’t come this way.” Pat catches on real quick and he stood back to back with me and said, “Don’t come this way.” Now we’re having fun. Now it’s getting real interesting. We’re great friends right now. As a matter of fact, his mother has a barber shop across the street—a hair salon. Betty Ann?</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Oh, yeah. I don’t know her, but everybody says what a wonderful person she is</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>That’s his mom, so when we get together we hug, fish, and talk. Needless to say, when the wall was torn down—while we were in the pot fighting—there were some friends made in the pot. The wall came down. Doing sports—the wall came down. We realized fighting wasn’t going to do us any good. “You’re here and I’m here. We’ve got to go to the same school. We’re from the same town. Hey, we might as well get along.”</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Your thought process is that that brought about the change, because you said, “I’m not fighting.” Then you said that to them, and they said that they didn’t want to fight either. You were really a catalyst for the change in your school.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>Somebody had to do something.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Well, I’m glad to meet you, because that was a wonderful thing that you did.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>All that fighting and carrying on—it gets to the point where you’re like, “Come on. We just did this yesterday.” There was a big change. When we graduated. Tears flew. “I might never see this guy anymore.” I knew these guys, so when reunion time comes around, that’s great. We go get a ride, Pat gets drunk, and I have to take him home[<em>laughs</em>]. All of a sudden he’s hugging you and wants to tell you how much he loves you. The true feelings come out then. When I see him in his momma’s shop, it’s like, “Hey! You didn’t call me!” They look at us like we’re going to tear the place apart.</p>
<p>It had to come to that. The wall inside of me fell. and it didn’t just fall, it crumbled. After I joined the service, it really crumbled, because now those I thought were my enemies were now my friends. Now we’re fighting for the same cause. I’m training them and they’re training me. I’ve been to the battlefield.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Which one?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>[Operation] Desert Storm. I rescued so many I can’t even count the number. I was a combat medic and I’d pull them out of holes and hills, and rescued them out of the battlefields. It has been a great life and it ain’t over yet. The best is yet to come.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>So when you got out of the service, what did you do?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>I opened up an automotive repair shop in Columbus, Georgia. That’s where I live now. That’s where I’ve been ever since. I work on everybody’s car [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Now, when you were in school, did any of the girls fight?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>Well, he saw more fights than I did. I think that since I went to school in New York, when I got here, I didn’t have to put up a wall, because I understood already, because I understood what was going on. However, as an African-American, I knew where I stood and how far I could go. Which brings me back to the fifth grade and having to—it was an awful feeling to have to feel “less than.” I spent six months knowing that I was more than that. Then you get to a place where you can’t go here and you can’t go there. I think we grew up desiring not to. Which is why when we got old enough and came home, we wanted to see what all the hoopla was about. We wanted to see why we couldn’t go over there. It was to our great disappointment, because there were houses just like ours. Our house looks better than theirs.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Okay, but what about the fighting? Did they do any fighting?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>Oh, yes. There was fighting. However, I would be in New York, so he would see more. The fights were always in the beginning of the school year and definitely at the end of the school year. The last day of school [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>You can’t get suspended. The only thing you can do is go home.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>You’ve been saving up the whole year for the last day of school.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Get even time.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>I think we even picked fights. It was the last day of school.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>It was wild, I tell you. I think about some of that. There was one in particular. I had a problem with one teacher. This guy—from the moment I walked in his class until the time class was done—did not like me. I didn’t bother with him, but there was this girl that liked me. She was white and she liked me. My thing was, “I can’t do nothing with you. Ain’t no way.” I wasn’t interested, but because she liked me, he was upset about it. She didn’t try to hide it. She liked me and I kept saying, “Look, I can’t do nothing with you.” And he realized what was going on, and one day, he called me outside the classroom and he said, “You are one dirty, stinking, colored boy.” It hit me and I told Dad about it and he said, “Don’t worry about it.” but I still had to deal with this guy</p>
<p>One day in class there was a hand-cranked electrical generator. You can generate electricity with this hand-cranked electrical generator. Now, my dad was a plumber, but he was also a carpenter, and he knew electricity, and he taught me a lot of things. One of the things that he taught me about electricity was if you got in line with the electricity, if you touched it and I’m touching you, then I’m going to get it, okay? He had this electric generator in class and he was trying to prove a point, and the point was that if you touch this—he had us get into a line and hold hands and guess who was last? Guess who was next to last? The young lady. I knew what was going to happen. He was going to crank the generator. He was saying, “Y’all ready?” Everybody was ready. When he made a motion to crank that generator, I snatched my hand out of hers, and her hair stood up on her head, and she said, “Eeeeeee!” [<em>laughs</em>] When she hollered, he looked straight at me. I was standing there looking at him, because I knew. Needless to say, I got an F. I wound up going to summer school and I passed with a B. Stuff like that happened and I couldn’t do anything about it. I had to deal with it.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>So what happened to that girl?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>She followed us right on through high school. She was right there. I can’t remember what her name was, but she graduated.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>But she learned her lesson that—she didn’t mess with you again did she?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>We went to high school and I would see her and she would—but that was it. I couldn’t. My dad said, “No,” and that was just it. It was taboo and I just didn’t do it. You have to be obedient to your parents, so I didn’t. And with everything that happened to me, I didn’t want anything to do with that. The only thing that got me interested was when they came to the football field and said, “Hey, y’all want to play?” At first, there was a wall. After playing football the first few times, there were a couple of fights and everybody was like, “Come on.” As time went on, you get tired and you say, “Hey, something’s got to give.”</p>
<p><strong>Thompson </strong>So what about the girls? They fought too?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>Yeah. The girls fought too. You know how girl fights are—tearing clothes off, pulling hair, scratching. [<em>laughs</em>] There was a lot of that too, but when the girls start fighting, a lot of the guys would get in too and they would hold them and keep them from fighting. At the end of school, there weren’t enough people to stop all the fights that broke out though. The only thing you could do was get on the bus and go home. The last bell rang, run to the bus, and go home [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Well, you both have come out with really wonderful attitudes.</p>
<p><strong>Román-Toro<br /></strong>How did you guys feel when the Trayvon Martin case happened? How did you act when you heard about that?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>I was in Georgia at the time. I was just working in my shop when I found out about it, and I was like, “Man, that thing ain’t going anywhere yet. It’s still there.” I was saying, “Gosh, the only way that this thing is going to leave this city is that some folks just have to die.” How long are we going to be upset with each other? If I get cut, I bleed. If you get cut, you bleed. It’s the same color red. The same thing God did for you, he did it for me. Some folks won’t let it die.</p>
<p>When it happened, I was like, “Wow, here we go again.” Just when you think everything’s good and maybe there’s a chance and we’re doing all right, here we go again. It blew me away. It really hurt, because a lot of people knew me as the guy from Sanford. When I was in school, they used to call me “Sanford.” When Trayvon got killed, everybody was like, “Ain’t you from Sanford? You better look at the news. Something’s going on down there.”</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Did you talk to any of your friends down here? What did they say?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>Oh, gosh,. You know, you always get some radical friends, because this happened to Grandma and this happened to Granddaddy. The memory is still there too. People say, “I’m going to get in on it too,” and “I’m going to do something about it.” I’m like, “Hey, man. That ain’t the way.” Then the demonstration—I was so glad that they were peaceful. I didn’t want that for Sanford. I didn’t want all that fighting and carrying on. We fought enough.</p>
<p>I’ve got a lot of sisters down here and a lot of kinfolk, and I’m like, “Hey, man. Be peaceful. Let’s let the law work for a change.” I mean, it’s obvious what happened. If the blind man heard what he said to the 9-1-1 operator, I mean, come on. You<a title="">[1]</a> were out to get that young boy and he didn’t do anything but go to the store. Now, I don’t know what had been happening in the past. I don’t know how many break-ins they had had in the past. I don’t condone that kind of stuff. I mean, if there’s a thief, let’s catch him. I don’t want him to break-in mine. I don’t want him to break-in yours either. You work hard and you don’t want anybody breaking in and taking your stuff. but Trayvon wasn’t doing that. This guy was so obsessed that he just had it out for him, and what he did was wrong.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>And overboard.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>The 9-1-1 operator telling you, “Wait ‘til the authorities arrive.” And you’re going to take matters into your own hands, and, as far as I’m concerned, you’re guilty. You shot that young boy and he didn’t do anything to you. You messed with him. It could have been your brother, son, or cousin. He came from Miami. I hate that he came to Sanford for this thing to happen to him, but it opened up a lot of eyes in this city—black and white.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>I was so proud of the City of Sanford. They had a thing from the Sheriff’s Department that said that all through that spring there were no reported fights, no break-ins, no attacks, etc. We stood head-and-shoulders above any community that was having all that outside pressure to do something and we didn’t do it. We stood together.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>And my sister called me and told me, “You should have been here. You should have seen the city. Everybody got together and marched.” It did my heart good. I hate what happened to Trayvon, but it sure did bring this city together and it got people to thinking. I mean, it was something deep inside of me.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>When we’re born, that’s something that’s imbedded inside of us from birth. In New York, we say that white babies are born with a backpack full of privileges, and when the black babies are born, the first thing you get is: “You’re black.” If you come from a black parent, this is one of the first things that you’re going to learn. You are Negro. It’s changed several times since then—colored, African-American, black.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>You heard it different. See, I heard it as, “If you’re white, you’re born with a silver spoon in your mouth. If you’re black, you get a slap on the butt.” [<em>laughs</em>]</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Okay. Now I want to hear your feelings about what happened to Trayvon.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>I’m not an avid television watcher. I certainly try to stay away from the news. I prefer the peace, because I can always hear God speaking. When the Trayvon Martin situation happened, I was unaware of it, but I was in the process of relocating from New York to Sanford, and when I got here in February, I didn’t need the TV. All of our friends and family were talking about it.</p>
<p>What happened to me when I got here, as far as Trayvon is concerned, was that I came downtown really just trying to feel Sanford again, because we were allowed to come on First Street. We used to go to the Rexall Drugs.; we couldn’t eat at the counter thingy, but we could go and get our medicines. Then there was the five-and-dime or the 10-cent store.<a title="">[2]</a> So I came downtown and remembered [inaudible] and Manuel[?] Jacobson and, in passing one of those places and seeing that it was open, I went in.</p>
<p>Immediately, Sarah Jacobson—I got pretty upset, because she wanted to know how I felt about it, but she felt that the world is thinking that Sanford is a horrible place now. and since I was from New York, she wanted to know how I felt. I said to her, “Unfortunately, I’ve just come from New York now, but I’ve lived in Sanford all my life, so I can’t agree with you that this is something different. This has just come out, but they have been killing all along.” That’s what I said to her. “This isn’t new. We don’t know how many black people or children someone has killed and they’re out there in the St. Johns River. I do know that, in my lifetime, Trayvon is not the first one. He’s just the one the Lord is using to clean up Sanford.” Cleaning up Sanford from the top. starting with the police department and everything. We got into a heated discussion, because I wouldn’t back down. I’m the African-American. I know what happened, so I’m not going to listen to you tell me based on what your parents—and all of that. I told her, “Sarah, but you’re still white. You don’t get to have a say in stuff like this. Your opinion is not going to matter to us or to the world, because we look at you and we still see white and all the things that conspired in the meantime.”</p>
<p>She was very proud of her mother. Back during that time, when her mother had Manuel[?] Jacobson, she only had white ladies working for her. Somehow, it had come about in the city that they were going to boycott her, because she didn’t have any black employees. Well, one of the ladies that lived in the neighborhood heard about it and she liked Mrs. Jacobson, so when Mrs. Jacobson got to work that morning to open up the store, this lady was waiting outside so she asked her, “Why are you out here? I’m not open yet.” She said, “Well, I came to apply for that job that you’ve got.” She let her in and she said, “Well, you know I can’t hire you.” And she told her what her credentials would have to be before she could hire her and she just kindly told her that they were going to shut her down that day. She said, “I’ve come here to work for you for free as to save your life.” Sarah thought that that was really great, but not on the woman’s part. she thought her mother had done this awesome thing by letting this black lady come in there. I said, “Sarah, they were going to kill your mother.”</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Kill the business, not kill the mother.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>Well, I don’t see it that way. I don’t see that they were just going to get there and it was going to go over peacefully. I see Mrs. Jacobson in all of that. The black woman really put her life out there to save their livelihood. All Sarah had gotten out of that was that her mother had done this awesome thing for a black woman.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Well, did the woman keep her job? Did she continue to work for her or did she just work one day for free?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>No. It was for a while until all of that had blown over. People saw that she had employed a black person. From that, Sarah just took this great pride that her mother—I said, “Well, she may have been loved enough by the blacks that this woman would come up to her, but she didn’t do anything great. She came and opened her shop like normal.” We just kind of had it out about that, and she wanted to know how I felt about the Trayvon thing. “Is Sanford really a bad place?” I said, “Well, it’s the same. Nothing’s changed.” She disagreed with me, and that’s okay. I never expected her to agree with me, but I was really pissed inside, because that brought back something. I could feel the ball and the chain around my feet while I was talking to her.</p>
<p>What happens to us is that we know what to say to you and how to be diplomatic when we say it. However, if your attitude is the same as Sarah’s, then we have to come together and see the truth. This isn’t the first time this has happened in Sanford. We really have to control our anger. We don’t intend to be anger[sic], but it angers you when you’re talking to someone and they’re not listening. and you know they’re not listening by what they keep saying back to you. I just finally got tired of talking to Sarah and I told her I didn’t want to discuss that anymore. Sanford hasn’t changed. She said, “I could see this is really upsetting you.” She was laughing and there was this guy there watching. “What’s wrong with you, woman? Okay. it’s your money. It’s your money that’s still got you down here and you own half these buildings here, so okay.” She said, “Well, Patricia, if you’re going to open up a shop down here, you should go over across the street and talk to the black lady over there to see how she’s doing.” I said, “Why? Sarah, I don’t need that, because whatever they’re doing to her, I don’t need to hear her troubles and I’m not going to let any of you all do anything to me while I’m here. I’m from the North, Sarah.” She said, “I still think you should go over there.” I left there with a thorn. I still feel it, but it’s better now, because I get to say it to white people [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p>She was purposely sticking something to me. She knew she was doing it. She was laughing the whole time. That bothered me and it really discouraged me from even being downtown. I’m opening my shop over on Sanford Avenue across 25<sup>th</sup> Street. Sarah’s not invited [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Did you have other encounters with blacks or whites in Sanford that you knew when you lived here all those years?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>, at this time I’m not going to repeat any of it, because it’s not suitable for the audience. It was negative towards whites. I’m using that word, because I can and it’s true. Sanford as a city has done nothing but grown. It’s the people in Sanford—both black and white. When we speak about different situations, we’re talking about the whites. In our minds—well, they are in charge. Even if we did say “the city of Sanford,” we still mean “whites.” They had lots of opinions, but they were basically what we’ve shared about whites.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>Our house was next to the bushes, so there wasn’t anything else back there. There was a big ol’ yard. When I went outside—growing up, I can remember having no shirt on—short pants, barefoot. I can remember wearing a shirt, short pants, barefoot. I can remember standing in the road, because my aunt—she used to keep me, and I would always be outside when a story came on called <em>Search for Tomorrow</em>. Do you remember that?</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Yeah [<em>laughs</em>]. Take a look at this white hair.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>I remember that. Organ music and everything. And I would go outside, because I didn’t want to be inside the house—no way, no how—because it was on a black-and-white TV. I’d be outside and I’d look over there, because the house across the street was Mr. Jack and Mrs. Blanch’s. They were old folk. No one around was my age except Patricia and—and lived across the alley.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>There were other kids, but this is Tenth Street, but when you get to the stop sign, this is where I am. This is the end of Tenth Street—a dead end, actually. It was just he and I as children over here, so we all played together at some point. But at the end of the day, and even at the beginning of the day, it was he and I. Today, we are best friends.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>We got close.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>He can tell you what I looked like. He swears I had ponytails all the time.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>And it wasn’t hard to figure out who I was either. It was like this most of the time, because this is the only kind of haircut you got. [<em>laughs</em>] Some of the old ladies would plait them. They would take one piece of hair and make this long plait and they’d [inaudible] back and one back here—four big plaits and that was it.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>I always had plaits.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Now, did she wear little dresses or would she wear shorts?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>She had a little dress on. Every now and then she’d come out with shorts.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>Well, at the age of seven, my mother taught me to sew. At the age of eight, I was doing well enough that, at 10, she bought me my own sewing machine. I would come home from Hopper around third or fourth grade, and all the kids would come out and gather together to go out and play. I would be finishing up my little halter and shorts, and I would go out in an outfit that I just made in 15 minutes. That’s when I would have on shorts. Yeah, but he’s my best friend.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Did you ever see him play football?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>No. That was during the time we separated in spirit, due to the other part of my story. We separated even though we were still there.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Talk about the separation.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>We didn’t see each other for about 50 years.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>We used to walk to school together. Young girls they grow up faster than we do, and they reach a certain point where they lose their mind. It’s just crazy. As young guys we’re like, “What’s the matter with them?” It’s because we don’t have that yet. It was me and you and a whole bunch of girls, and it got to the point where they were way ahead of me. I didn’t have a clue. I realized that something was going on, and at the age that I was, I didn’t want to be a part of it. We used to have to walk to school—talk about no bus. They said, “If you live two miles away, the bus will come.”</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>We lived two blocks from the two miles.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>But they told us, “You guys can’t ride the bus,” so we walked. It was a trip. It got to the point where you would see people that lived right around the corner of the school get on the bus. They’d drive from the schoolhouse and drop them off.</p>
<p>We used to walk. And they had gotten to the point where they had begun to walk fast, so me being the only guy, I knew something was different. You start growing up and you start looking in the mirror and you see them and you see yourself and you say, “Nah. I don’t fit. I’m not what they’re looking for.” When they sped up, I slowed down, because I just didn’t—you know, after you’re called “ugly” enough…</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>You were shy.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>No. I went through school being called ugly, big head, big lips, big feet, and all this stuff. You know, after you hear that enough, you kind of think, “You know, I don’t want to deal with that.” Then I would purposely wait until I would see them turn the corner, and then I would walk on to school. When I got to Sanford Middle School, I already had a license. At 13 years old, I had a driver’s license. I had restriction at 13. I had operator’s at 14. All that walking was done once I got my license.</p>
<p>One of my uncles had a car that was in the bushes and I wanted the car. He laughed me up under the porch. He laughed and laughed. And I stood there until he finally said, “You really want that car, don’t you?” He said, “If you could get it out of the bushes, you can have it.” I went and got my dad’s truck and pulled it out of the bushes. I carried it over to my house, and three days later, I drove it over to his house [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p>I had my driver’s license, and I taught my aunt, which was his wife—I taught her how to drive, because he’d try, but he’d freak out and holler at her. I taught her how to drive, so he loved me. I was driving his truck and he bought a Cadillac for her, and she was scared of that car. It was so big. I would drive the Cadillac. Woo, man. The car I pulled out of the bushes. I would drive that. It wasn’t a big deal.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Okay. I want to hear a little more about the car. What kind it was and what you did to repair it? That became your life’s calling?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>I was fixing [inaudible] and lawnmowers since I was eight years old. I didn’t know why. All I knew was that I could do it. When I got the car—which was a ‘64 Oldsmobile Starfire—it was like a tank. It was cast iron. I was teaching her how to drive one day, and she just tore it all up. We didn’t have any insurance. Nothing wrong with the car. [<em>laughs</em>] The other car was all torn up and the owner said, “You could go. [<em>laughs</em>] It was a light blue ’64 Starfire. I got that thing running.</p>
<p>I carried it home, rose up the hood, and started checking stuff out—spark plugs, distributor, wires, battery. and it didn’t take much. I put some gas in it and fired it up. He just gave up on it, basically. I think about that now that I run an automotive repair shop and think, “It just needed a tune-up.” It cut off on him and he went and pushed it into the bushes.</p>
<p>I was driving in junior high school. So when they took off walking, I rode a bicycle for a while, and then I started walking. It wasn’t a big deal. I would see them walking on the other side of the road.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>And you didn’t even offer them a ride?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>No [<em>laughs</em>]. I was doing good[sic]. I was satisfied. I drove all the way through high school and everything. I always had something to drive. My dad used to have an old Chevy pickup. I used to drive that. I fixed it up for him. I didn’t realize that God put that gift in me until later—until I accepted him and got saved.</p>
<p>I was reading the Bible—about [King] Solomon. When he was building the [First] Temple, he was trying to figure out, “Who’s going to help me?” Then God told him, “This guy over here knows about bricks, this guy knows about wood, etc.” I got to thinking and realized, “You did that.” [<em>laughs</em>] I thought that I was going to be the mailman after I got out of the army.</p>
<p>I had taken the post office’s<a title="">[3]</a> exam. scored big time. After I came from taking the test, they told me, “You’ve got three interviews already.” I said, “Shoot. I’m going to be the mailman.” I had had about three tickets in the past. I went to Macon and they said, “Oh, you had these a long time ago. Just clear your racket and you’re good. Take the test and everything.” I go to my first interview, and the guy said, “It looks good, but you have too many tickets.” I said, “What do you mean I have ‘too many tickets?’ I talked to these people at Macon and they told me that my driving record is good.” He said, “Man, I can’t use you. You’ve got too many tickets.” I said, “I know what I’m going to do. I’m going back down to Macon to straighten this out.” I went back down to Macon and got another ticket. [<em>laughs</em>]</p>
<p>Now I’m sitting there in the car, and I’m saying to myself, “Lord, what do you want me to do?” He said, “Go home. Enroll in school.” I went home and went to the schoolhouse and enrolled in school and I started the very next day. That’s what he wanted me to do, and I signed up for automotive technology. They thought that I was the best thing since ice cream. I was just doing what I know, and they were like, “Nobody like you has ever come through here.” I kept saying, “Man, all these mechanics...” They said, “Look, no one like you has ever come through here.” I would get my grades and throw them on the table. When it came time to graduate, the instructor walked up to me and gave me these papers and said, “Fill these out.” I looked at the papers and they said, “National Honors Society.” I said, “You got the wrong person. Wait a minute now. National Honors Society means that I’m going to wear a white gown. You got the wrong person.” The guy said, “No. you haven’t seen your grade point average.” I said, “Well, what is it?” He said, “It’s 4.2.” I said, “4.2? How do you get 4.2?” I built a car, and that’s how I got 4.2.</p>
<p>This young lady and I were in the class, and I guess we were neck-to-neck and it got to the end of the class, and I said, “I’ll know what I’ll do. I’ll just build a car. You know, I’ll just put the engine in, and the transmission and everything.” They said, “You ain’t going to be able to do that.” I looked them and said, “Y’all don’t know.” I built that car and I didn’t realize they were looking at me, because I would go to the end of the hall, where the car was, so I could work on it. But they were looking. Finally, I finished it and I stood there and looked at it. I put the key in and fired it up and it looked like everybody came out of the woodwork and it looked like everybody came out and started clapping and everything. I was like, <em>Wow</em>. [<em>laughs</em>] So I filled out the papers and was part of the National Honors Society.</p>
<p>I was floored. I didn’t think that was me. As they finished with the National Honors Society, they said, “Now we’re going to name the Student of the Year.” And they’re going on about this guy and they’re just talking about how great he is and how good he is and I’m saying to myself, <em>This guy must be—goodness, boy. This guy really did good</em>[sic]. They just kept talking until they said, “The Student of the Year is Billy Hardy.” And I’m sitting there and they’re just clapping and hollering, and I’m sitting there, because it didn’t hit me yet. and somebody said to me, “They just called your name.” I looked around at the instructor and walked up to the podium and said, “Y’all said all that about me?” I was like, <em>Wow</em>. I’ve been doing it ever since he blessed me to open up a shop. I worked at the dealership and a couple of other shops and then he blessed me with my own shop.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Were you in contact with him when he was in the service?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>No. It really was 50 years. It was 50 years last year since we saw each other. It’s been a year now.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>When I left, I left. I’d come home and ride in and ride out.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>I wouldn’t see him though. We still lived in the same places, but we didn’t contact each other. The separation was my doing. I did it because of what was going on in my home. He and I were so close that I knew what he knew. The separation was me not wanting to ruin him by telling him what was happening to me all those years.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Okay. If you want to tell that. We have 14 minutes left.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>I’m the one that started to walk ahead. I would look over the corner to see if he had come out. If he hadn’t, I would shoot out so I would be ahead. That was because I decided not to tell him what was going on. He was quiet and I could just tell he wouldn’t have known what to do with that information. This had already been happening to me for six years at that point, and we had played together up until that point, so I had to make a decision. It wasn’t until all these years later that I could tell him why.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>You can tell that if you’d like to.</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>I had been being molested every week by a family friend in my home or wherever he would drive me to. At one point, Billy and I were playing and he dared me not to do something to him. and I was always hitting on him and everything, because he’s always been a whole lot bigger than me and he dared me this time. He always let me have my way, but this time he was saying, “Oh, you better not do that.” I knew he was serious, but I also knew I was his girl and he was going to let me get away with it. so I did real quickly and I ran across to my yard and he came running after me. The guy that was molesting me was standing there and I ran into the house and as Billy was running to come up behind me, the man hit him. and when I looked back I realized the man was really fixed on me. Billy got up to come after me again, not knowing why this strong man that he didn’t know would punch him like that, and he punched him again. so I knew I had to leave him alone. I made the decision to walk ahead.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>Did he hurt him?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>He hit me pretty good. I was just a little fella. If I find him again—I don’t know. I remember clearly how he did that, and I couldn’t have done anything, because this guy was swinging some hammers. He knocked me down about three times and the only thing I could do was get up and go home, you know?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>I couldn’t look anymore. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know if to tell him that this is what the guy was doing. For me, I let Billy go. I didn’t want to mess him up or leave him thinking he had to save me or something, so I did that. The girls didn’t do that. I was the one that said, “Here comes Billy. Walk a little faster.” The girls didn’t even know why. It was very painful for both of us.</p>
<p>At the age of six, he and I were playing make-believe, and the aunt that he was talking about saw us and called my mother. And at six years old, I got the beating of my life. It was my molester that went and caught me and brought me back, and my mother beat me with a leather belt. and when she stopped swinging me around, I got introduced to shame. The guy was standing there and he watched me get the beating, and from there, he began to touch me and became my friend. So I thought I was saving Billy at that time.</p>
<p>We would still go to school, but we ignored the feelings we had for each other. We were in love at six years old. We went to the store on one of the lawnmowers that he hadn’t fixed yet. I have no idea where I learned any of that from. But for me, the separation was very difficult. because your friend doesn’t know what is going on and I just couldn’t tell him or anybody else.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>And for how long did that go on?</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>For 11 years. I was 17. By the time. But by that time, our lives had gone in different directions.</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>When did you go to the military?</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>In ’76. After football season I said, “It’s time to go.”</p>
<p><strong>Black<br /></strong>I never did try to contact him all these years. I wouldn’t ask his sisters or anybody where he was. I just always prayed to God that one day, I could see him again. and, lo and behold, that was last year. It was always in me, because the day after, he never asked me, “What happened to you?” We never asked each other that. I believe that if he had asked me that, it would have given me a chance to say. But since we didn’t—by the time we’re 12, I’m trying to protect him. I had determined, through all those years, that if my name ever came out of his mouth, I would go.</p>
<p>It was 50 years later, and he was talking to a cousin, and he asked about me and she called me in New York and told me, “Billy was asking about you. He wants your number.” And I asked, “My Billy?” She said, “Yeah.” I said, “Billy boy? My Billy boy?” And I started to cry and asked her, “’Tricia, is it my Billy boy?” And she kept saying, “Yes.” Even she knew what it was. She asked, “Do you want me to give him your number?” I said, “No. give me his.” It had been long enough. I called him immediately, and, probably to his annoyance, I called him every day since then [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p>My father owned a school bus, a big truck, and a car. The bus was to carry the people up North and the yard was always full. The backyard was where Daddy kept all his vehicles was actually right in his view.</p>
<p><strong>Hardy<br /></strong>So I knew when they came from up North. When the trucks and the buses were out there, I knew she was back. We were like Forrest Gump and Jenny [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Thompson<br /></strong>This was just wonderful and I’d love to do it again.</p>
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<p><a title="">[1]</a> George [Michael] Zimmerman.</p>
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<p><a title="">[2]</a> Next to the Sanford Atlantic Bank.</p>
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<p><a title="">[3]</a> United States Postal Service (USPS).</p>
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Celery Soup: Florida's Folk Life Play
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Clemens, Jimmy
Columbus, Georgia
Creative Sanford, Inc.
Crooms Academy
Crooms High School
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Hopper Academy
Howard, Pat
integration
Jacobson, Manuel
Jacobson, Sarah
Jones, Willie
Lakeview Middle School
Martin, Trayvon Benjamin
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migrant worker
miscegenation
National Honor Society
New York
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North Rose Wolcott School
Oldsmobile Starfire
Operation Desert Storm
oral history
race relations
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Rochester, New York
Roman-Toro, Freddie
Sanford
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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
White, Garnett
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Title
Oral History of Garnett White
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Oral History, White
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
World War II--United States
Navy
Real estate--Florida
Celery
Citrus--Florida
Description
An oral history of Garnett White, conducted by Joseph Morris on October 13, 2011. Born in St. Augustine, Florida, White moved with his family to Sanford at a young age. In the interview, he discusses attending Southside Elementary School during World War II, running a paper route and riding bikes around Sanford, his experiences as a real estate broker, Sanford's celery industry, the history of Chase and Company, Red Hill Groves and the citrus industry, his service in the U.S. Navy, his civic service, and his family.
Table Of Contents
0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:42 Education
0:05:58 Riding bikes around Sanford
0:11:12 Experiences as a real estate broker
0:13:32 Celery industry and citrus industry
0:22:54 Growing up in Sanford
0:24:01 Running a paper route
0:27:51 Working in a grocery store and as a golf caddy
0:29:24 Serving in the Navy
0:32:27 Community involvement
0:37:17 Wife, children, and grandchildren
0:41:03 Farmers in Sanford
0:43:36 Growing citrus
0:48:35 Closing remarks
Abstract
Oral history interview of Garnett White Interview conducted by Joseph Morris at 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> in Sanford, Florida.
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Sound
Source
White, Garnett. Interviewed by Joseph Morris. October 13, 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.
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<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
West 10th Street and South Laurel Avenue, Sanford, Florida
Triple S Groceteria, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Grammar School, Sanford, Florida
Lake Monroe, Sanford, Florida
Chase & Company Washhouse, Sanford, Florida
Red Hill Groves, Orlando, Florida
Creator
Morris, Joseph
White, Garnett
Contributor
Vickers, Savannah
Date Created
2011-10-13
Date Modified
2014-10-30
Date Copyrighted
2011-10-13
Format
audio/mp3
application/pdf
Extent
493 MB
174 KB
Medium
48-minute and 51-second audio recording
16-page digital transcript
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Economics Teacher
Geography Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Joseph Morris and Garnett White.
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://www.redhillgroves.com/#!our-story/cqi7" target="_blank">About Red Hill Groves</a>." Red Hill Groves. http://www.redhillgroves.com/#!our-story/cqi7.
Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53015288" target="_blank"><em>Sanford</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.
Transcript
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>This is an interview with Garnett White. This interview is being conducted on October 13<sup>th</sup>, 2011, at the Museum of Seminole County History. The interviewer is Joseph Morris, representing the Linda McKnight Batman Oral History Project for the Historical Society of Central Florida. Sir, could you tell us a little bit about yourself?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Well, yes. I was born in St. Augustine, Florida. My father was a butcher—or meat-cutter, I guess we would call it. We moved to Sanford when I was maybe three years old. I remember when I was four years old going to a birthday party to a neighbor girl—and as I’ve over the years have tried to think when that was. I believe I was about four years old. We lived on [West] Tenth Street in Sanford, and my father worked as a butcher—meat-cutter—and he moved here from southwest Georgia—called Pelham, Georgia—and he went to work here for a man from Pelham, Georgia, named Bluitt Stevens.</p>
<p class="Body">We lived on Tenth Street until I was in about second grade, and my father had a house built on Tenth and [South] Laurel Avenue, and he still worked for Mr. Stevens. Mr. Stevens owned a store in Downtown Sanford where the Colonial Room Restaurant is now, and it was called Triple S Groceteria—the red front store, and that time is about the time I started school, and I went to Southside Elementary [School], where my first grade teacher was a Mrs. Jacobs, and the principal was Mrs. Harrington. And I remember those times. I went up through the fourth grade. And in the second grade, Elizabeth Wigham was my teacher. And the third grade, was a lady named Bobbi Goff. And the fourth grade, was a lady named Bobbi Goff. And this was only about three—maybe four—blocks from my home, and back then, of course, you didn’t have buses like that, and I remember walking to school when I’m six years old, and of course today, they don’t allow that type of thing, but it was not out of the ordinary at all.</p>
<p class="Body">One memory I have of that is that the lunch. The lunches cost 11 cents. You got a blue ticket for five cents, and that gave you the food—a roll usually, amongst other things—and milk was six cents. That was a yellow ticket. And I think you could get all five for 25—all five of a week for 25 cents, as well as I remember. But most people brought their own lunches. They did buy milk for six cents. And that was kind of interesting.</p>
<p class="Body">This would have been in about 1940 or ’41, and the Second World War started in 1941, and I remember big piles of metal, particularly aluminum, and rubber. This was to help the war effort, with aluminum to build airplanes out of—and I don’t know what they did with the rubber. But that was my first recollection of playing baseball—or softball, I guess it was—was at Southside Elementary.</p>
<p class="Body">Then we, uh—my grandfather was from Athens, Georgia, and he had his arm taken off. He had cancer, and my mother went up there to take care of him for about six weeks, and I, of course, went with her, and so I went to school for that six weeks in Winterville, Georgia.</p>
<p class="Body">Of course, coming back to Sanford, continued with school at—we called it [Sanford] “Grammar School,” which is now the Student Museum on Seventh Street and Elm Avenue in Sanford. They’d talk about it being so old, and so on. Of course, that was 70 years ago almost, but it doesn’t look any different today than it did back then. And they’d talk about it being old, and so on and so forth. Didn’t mean anything to us. You know, you had a seat and that was it. You know, scribbling all over the desks with knives. So on. So, you know, times—it just did not mean anything to us, as far as how new something was, and apparently nowadays you got to have a new school, or they don’t—or the children don’t accomplish as much, I guess, is a word [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p class="Body">But then—about when I was 11 years old, I got a paper route. Remember, this is during the war—the Second World War. And I got a paper route delivering <em>The Florida Times-Union</em>, which is the Jacksonville paper. They weren’t—the Sanford paper came out in the afternoon, and it was very hard to get newspaper or newsprint, and presses would break down, and I delivered <em>The Sanford Herald</em> also, about that time, and they had brown paper. It looked like the brown paper that’s used by butchers to wrap meat in, and that was kind of odd. And I’ve talked to people in the last few years, and they remember the paper being printed on that brown paper.</p>
<p class="Body">But something that is really kind of interesting is, over the years, I have talked and had coffee with Senator Mac Cleaver, and we would always talk about our paper routes. He was older than I was, but it never changes. And we would talk about who lived in certain houses, and where they would leave the money for the newspaper, and they still—me being eight years younger than Mac—they still left it at the same place—on the banister, on the porch, that type of thing.</p>
<p class="Body">Of course, after that, we went to Sanford Junior High School, which was over on Ninth Street and Sanford Avenue, and I guess that’s when we started growing up a little bit, and getting around town on our bicycles more than we did when we were very young. But we would ride our bikes down to the lakefront—which is Lake Monroe, down where the motel is now—and we’d jump off the seawall. It was there at that time. We’d jump off. We’d swim out to one of the beacons or markers out in the water. Another time—me and another fellow—we swam across the lake all the way to the power plant, and truthfully, we walked most of the way. It was very shallow out in the middle. We didn’t really walk. We just kind of touched bottom, and my father picked us up on the other side at the power plant on the north side of Lake Monroe.</p>
<p class="Body">But those were good times. It was not out of the ordinary to go downtown and walk around. Go through the alleys and see what people—or I’m talking about stores—had thrown away and did we want it, and that sort of thing, you know. It was—I really remember one time we went behind a place called [B. L.] Perkins. That was a men’s store. And there was a book of swaths of material that you could pick out what you—the men—would want their suits made out of. And we thought that—they were little old things about three by three inches, about three inches—and we thought that was a big deal. We took those home, and I think our parents threw them away. Anyway, as time goes on, in high school, went further from home, and went through all of the things, I guess, that happen in high school. And immediately after that, I joined the Navy and spent my hitch on board a fleet OR, and this would have been in 1950-51. But going all over town with paper routes, you just got to where you saw things you would never have seen, or people that you talked to or knew—you knew who they were, uh, if you didn’t have a paper route.</p>
<p class="Body">And then, as time goes on and I got out of the Navy, I got my—went to the real estate—school of real estate law—and, uh, got my broker’s license. And shortly thereafter, I met my wife, my now-wife. And we got married and had three children. As far as the real estate business is concerned, that was 50—I still have a license—and that’s 56 years ago. That’s a long time. I actually made a living at it. Only way I’ve made a living, up until about 6-7 years ago. And I’m 78 now, so it was time. But in the meantime, there’s quite a bit of property—not houses, but I never was much in the house business—that I’ve sold over that period of time three different times. There was one piece of property I sold three times. All three times were to people named Hall, and that they had never known each other, of course.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Of course.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>So it’s interesting. And land would sell for—I can remember appraising. I did quite a bit of appraisals for the banks in Sanford and the First Federal Savings & Loan, and that really got me back into going to places that you normally wouldn’t go if you weren’t in the real estate business. As time goes on, I was handling acreage, as I said, and they pretty well quit farming in Sanford.</p>
<p class="Body">Uh, farming as they knew it at that time, which was produce—which was celery. You know, at one time, they said that Sanford—Seminole County I guess—was the celery capital of the world. And it was actually a picture in one of the school books that said “harvesting celery in Sanford.” I remember that. But after the war, they—the farming kind of petered out, because it all went to the muck, and the muck means that you don’t have to spend as much money on fertilizer. And the type soils that we have around Sanford—the farming areas—was good to hold the roots in place and that’s all. And that’s come from the farmers that said, “No, you got to fertilize.”</p>
<p class="Body">So muck farms in Zellwood and down in Lake Okeechobee pretty well had an end to the farming in the area. It’s my understanding from the owner of Chase and Co[mpany], which was a very large company—probably the largest farmer in Central Florida back in the ‘20s and—but the last celery grown in the Sanford area was in 1975. Now that came from the owner, president of Chase and Co., and his name was Sydney Chase—Sydney [Octavius] Chase, Jr. His father<a title="">[1]</a> and his father’s brother<a title="">[2]</a> are the ones that started Chase and Co.</p>
<p class="Body">Something really interesting is that, of course, all of this product had to be shipped by railroad. You know, you didn’t have trucks like you have today. You just didn’t put things on a truck, haul it to New York. It all had to go to—through the railroad, and so most every packinghouse—that type of thing—was located where it could be sent by the railroad. And celery—and cabbage, cucumbers, all of those things—required refrigeration. Well, if you’ll think back to 1925, you didn’t have no refrigeration. But they was able to make ice in big 300-pound “slabs” I’ll call them. Chase and Co. had an icehouse out on the east side of Sanford. There was another one in Ransidey[?], which is in Monroe, Florida, just west of Sanford on the railroad. And you had railroad cars called “reefer” cars, and that stood for “refrigerator.” And they would put these big 300-pound slabs of ice in these railroad cars. They were all painted yellow, and during the summer, there was a siding going—railroad siding going from Sanford Avenue out to the Chase washhouse, which is on Cameron Avenue. And that’s a long ways. And they would store these reefer cars all summer long, because they had no use for them except to ship produce, and of course, you didn’t grow produce in the summertime. Come summertime, in like May or something, would be the last that they grew until next fall and next winter. But I remember all those yellow reefer cars there, and I’m sure many other people that was[sic] out in that area remember just sitting on the siding and waiting on the next year.</p>
<p class="Body">But there was a lot of—another thing is interesting is it seems as though to me that the people that owned automobiles—and their kids went to school with me—they were farmers. And other people didn’t have automobiles. My father did not have an automobile until 1946, which was right after the war, and things became available to sell, particularly meat products.</p>
<p class="Body">But all of that—getting back to the real estate business, I would come across and I knew a lot of people in the citrus business. And as time went on, I sold some citrus groves, and I bought some citrus groves, and I leased several citrus groves. And our—my wife and I’s—two children kind of grew up knowing what citrus was, and you could go on the Internet under White’s Red Hill Groves and read about us, and it’ll tell you all you need to know about our family and the citrus business. But it’s been 29 years now since we purchased a gift fruit packinghouse called Red Hill Groves. So we have set out new trees and taken care of old trees, and picked and packed, and shipped citrus all over the United States. I would say there’s not a state we haven’t shipped fruit to. But times have changed considerably, since probably 1985 and things started booming—this is because of Disney—and started booming.</p>
<p class="Body">And another thing that’s kind of interesting here is that when I went to high school, Seminole High School had a hundred people in each class. And Crooms Academy had maybe 30, and Oviedo [High School] may have 15, and Longwood, which is called Lyman High School, may have 15. And look at it today, there’s what? Eleven high schools, each one of them got three thousand in that school. So that’s really what started happening during those years, and those of course, just kind of bloomed.</p>
<p class="Body">Really interested—I was very active in the civic things in the city—Chamber of Commerce, the Jaycees,<a title="">[3]</a> and that type of thing. As time goes on, I think I’ve been through four—they call them—they don’t call them “depressions,” whatever they call them.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Recessions?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Recessions. And I’ve been through four of them. And I can remember trying to sell houses for a hundred dollars down and making a commission. There ain’t much left to make a commission out of. But times would get better, and then you’d start selling again. People would start buying again. I guess time is going to tell about the one we’re in now in 2011.</p>
<p class="Body">But anyway, it was a good life that I lived in Sanford. It is much different. Traffic, as everybody knows, gets on your nerves. But all three of our children live in Sanford, while our packinghouse is in Orlando. The boys go back and forth every day, and our daughter works for Bayer Corporation in the animal health division.</p>
<p class="Body">So anyway, we—my wife and I—both feel that our time growing up in Sanford, and spending our entire life here, except for those maybe three years, has been good, and as good as any place we could have settled. I don’t know that we ever considered moving from Sanford, neither of us. But I guess that’s pretty well the story.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>I have a couple questions, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Sure.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris <br /></strong>Okay, sir. You talked a great deal earlier about the paper route you ran as a kid.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Right.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Was that a great experience for you? Because you spent a lot of time discussing how you met and saw a lot of things.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Oh, well, sure! There’s a little story that goes along with that, was we delivered <em>The Florida Times-Union</em>, and we had about 11 or 12 paper boys. And you’d go up and down. Each one of us had about a hundred customers.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>And you’d go up and down the streets, and there was a policeman that walked the streets at night named Harriet. And Mr. Harriet had a dog that went with him, because Mr. Harriet walked up and down the alleys, and all the way generally throughout the whole downtown area. Well, a friend of mine who lived four or five houses from me had a dog, and the dog would go with him on his paper route. Well, it seems as though Mr. Harriet’s dog would jump on him and bite him and all of this sort of stuff. So my friend bought a collar that had, oh, pieces of metal like a nail sticking out the side—sticking on it. Well, he sharpened those up. And we’re all sitting there one morning, waiting for him to come with his dog. He’d always come around this corner—First Street and Oak Avenue—and he would come around that corner. Well, we’re waiting to see Mr. Harriet’s dog jump on this dog’s neck with those sharp barbs, and he did and he went off just howling. And Mr. Harriet came out. There was a bakery there, and everybody—paper boys—we would go in there five o’clock in the morning and get day-old donuts, and so would Mr. Harriet, and he come out of there just raising Cain about who hit his dog. But that was interesting.</p>
<p class="Body">And I guess when I was a senior in high school, I had a car route, and I went to Monroe, Paola, went all the way to Wekiva River, and back up through Monroe. And a man named Bass—he was the last one on my route. And he was a farmer, so he told the paper manager that I was just getting there too late, that if I couldn’t get there five o’clock in the morning, that he wasn’t going to take the paper no more. So I had to rearrange my route so I could get him first instead of last. But that was interesting in that too. And the people—there’s still people around that deliver papers. We talk about it, every now and then, when you see somebody. But that was good experience, really was.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>And you did that from when you were younger all the way through high school, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Not all that time, no. But I got a paper route when I was 11 years old, so that’s gonna put me in the fifth grade. And I remember having a paper route in the seventh grade. I don’t think I had any until I was senior, from the seventh until that time.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Oh, okay, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White <br /></strong>Because like, a lot of—something very interesting. I worked in a grocery store.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris <br /></strong>Okay, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>And you worked Thursday morning from about four o’clock in the morning, and Friday afternoon, and all day Saturday, for four dollars and something. Well, a friend of mine was caddying at the golf course, and he said, “Oh,” you know, “I don’t work but 4-5 hours and I make more than that.” So I went out and started caddying. So I caddied for several years.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris <br /></strong>Oh, okay, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Because you made more money. You carry those bags around. If you did it twice, they called it “double looping,” you made more money than you would at the grocery store. But anyway, I think everybody sooner or later worked in a grocery store.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>I don’t think that’s changed much, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Huh?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>I don’t think that’s changed much. I’ve worked in a couple grocery stores.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>No. No. I see the kids in there now, and they’re—course we didn’t stay there until all night long like they do now. They put up stock now at night, and we didn’t do that. Anyway, it was good. Good times.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>All right. You mentioned you were in the Navy, sir. How long were you in the Navy for?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>I was in the Navy for one hitch. I was a quartermaster.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, and one hitch is, uh...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>One hitch is when I was on something called “minority cruise,” and that you means you join after you’re 18 and you get out when you’re 21, instead of a flat three years—four years, whatever it is. And I joined when I was a senior in high school, and this wasn’t too long after the war. This would be in 1950.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>And the war was over in ’45. So anyway—but I was a quartermaster. A quartermaster is someone who does signals and navigation, that sort of thing. And a fleet oiler is different than a tanker. A tanker hauls fuel from one place to another, and a[sic] oiler refuels ships at sea when you’re both underway—you’re both moving. And that’s what an oiler is. You still have oiler today, and always will, because you need it in the middle of the ocean just as you do alongside a dock. And I liked that—and I may have stayed in longer except the ship was going on Operation Deep Freeze, and that was in Antarctica, and I wasn’t going there, ‘cause I’d heard the stories about it before. Everything’s full of ice and all of that. Anyway, that was my military experience.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Did you travel anywhere on that, at that time, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Oh yeah, sure. We went—first time when I went on board there, we went to New York City, which of course, here I am. Never been to New York City. We stayed there for like two days. Then we went to the Caribbean [Sea], down to South America to the Azores. Just that type—wherever. Maybe just sit out in the middle of the ocean waiting on a convoy to come that needed fuel. I mean, that was our job.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Right, sir. Did you enjoy your time in the military—the Navy?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Sure.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Just didn’t want to go to Antarctica.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>I didn’t want to go to Antarctica, and probably if I’d have stayed in longer than that, I’d have stayed. I would have stayed to retire. But I didn’t, and not been disappointed in that at all.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. You also mentioned you worked with civic duties for a while. So tell me a little more about that.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Well, 1963, I started civic-type stuff. Well, I was a Boy Scout. And I’ll have to go through the Boy Scouts [of America] first. But the Boy Scouts—I was a[sic] Eagle Scout, and I worked at summer camp as a waterfront director-type person. I guess I was 16 then, maybe 17. Sixteen and seventeen. I worked two years, one at Camp Wewa over in Apopka. The other one was Camp La-No-Che. Excuse me, Camp La-No-Che wasn’t open then. See, that’s 50 years ago, and most people never heard of Doe Lake [Recreation Area], and Doe Lake was in Ocala [National] Forest. And that was a Boy Scout camp and I worked there at that time. But I was a[sic] Eagle Scout, and that was a big deal to me. And we didn’t have many Eagle Scouts around here. Well, around anywhere. That was good.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>I’m sorry, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Yeah. You asked a question before that. What was that?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Your civic duties, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Oh. Well, in the Boy Scouts, believe it or not, we actually did a lot of things civic-wise. But I was president of the Sanford-Seminole County Jaycees<a title="">[4]</a> in 1963, and the Jaycees were very active at that time.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>The Jaycees, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Junior Chamber of Commerce.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Gotcha, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Okay. [<em>laughs</em>] And—very active. Had maybe 150 members, and had maybe 150 projects. These were things that, uh—and that was a big time in my life. For instance, we had a Christmas parade that we sponsored and worked. That was the big project for the year—the Christmas parade. And the year I was president, we had 11 bands, and nowadays, if you have one, you got a bunch of them. We had a hundred people working, doing whatever it took to make the parades. But it was always that way. And I have paperwork to that. So—I say “paperwork”—we made booklets of our projects. Some of them. I don’t have all of them. But it was a[sic] active time for people up to the age of 36. When you were thirty-six, then you were no longer…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Junior.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Invited, I guess, to be a Jaycee. And then, I was president of the Seminole County union of the American Cancer Society, and I was president of the Greater Sanford [Regional] Chamber of Commerce. Prior to that, it was the Sanford-Seminole County Chamber of Commerce, and I was a director for 25 years of the Chamber. So, you know, there were those. I was a bank director for 15 years. Served on the board of Seminole State College, as vice-chairman of the board for however many years. I don’t remember. So that was civic-type stuff.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. Sounds like you were very busy.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Yeah. I was busy. I was busy. Knew a lot of people. Most of them are dead now, but, uh, and I’ll join them before too many years. Maybe tomorrow [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>That’s why we’re getting this down today, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Get that out today. Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Could you tell me a little bit about your family? Your wife’s name, how you met her, and then your children’s names.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Yes. I’d gotten out of the Navy, and just got out really, and me and another fellow went to Leesburg High School—to a football game. This was in September, before—after—I had gotten out of the service in August, I guess. Anyway, this girl was a cheerleader, and had black hair. And afterwards, you always used to have dances always—and out of town also. And back then, the girl cheerleaders would always go to the dance, and so me and this fellow went also. And I met her, and then—from then on, had a few dates with her. And anyway, three or four years later, we got married. We have two sons. One’s 54, one’s 53. Have a daughter about 44—something. And the boys run the packinghouse. Have for 20. I say “running” —that’s only partially, mostly. They’ve—that’s 29 years. And a daughter that works for Bayer in the animal health division. Anyway. I guess that’s it. And got grandchildren [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>How many grandchildren, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Well, three. Three boy grandchildren. And one of them works for the city in Palm Coast, and the other one works for the car place—Gibson [Truck World]—down here, and the other one’s thirteen. He goes to school.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay. Is it okay if we get your wife’s name and your children’s names?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Paulette. Paulette. My wife’s name was Paulette Casen. It’s Paulette White, of course. And the children are Ed [White], Ted [White], and Judy [White]. And that’s their names.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Ed, Ted, and Judy?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Yes. Eddie, Teddy. [<em>laughs</em>] Yes. Ed, Ted, and Judy.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Do they still respond to Eddie and Teddy?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Oh, yeah, sure. Sure, sure, sure. Matter of fact, people their age call them Eddie and Teddy. But, you know, they have a lot of friends, since they’ve lived here.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Their whole lives, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Yeah. They’ve lived here except when they went to college. Eddie graduated from Stetson [University]. And Judy graduated from [University of] Florida. One of the grandsons graduated from Florida and has a degree in architecture. I was telling a story to a fellow about architecture, and I was telling him I knew nothing about computer[sic]. I do know how to turn it on. But I said I have a grandson that has a degree in architecture, and he has never picked up a pen or a pencil. It’s all down on the computer, every bit of it. It’s kind of hard for people my age to think that—that you’re actually gonna draw a plan for a building with a computer, instead of a pencil [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>I gotcha, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>The, uh—one of the things you mentioned earlier that really caught my attention was you said a lot of farmers had cars. Is that—do I remember that correctly?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>That’s correct.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Were a lot of the farmers well-off, or was there...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>During certain periods, they were well-off. Yes. And it was told to me that a farmer in the late ‘30s could make a living on ten acres of celery, and that’s not very much, but he couldn’t do that today. Same token. I’ve sold—I’ve sold property to people that owned an orange grove and did all of the work their self, and they had 20 acres, and they made a good living. They had a car, and made a good living on 20 acres. But they did all the work their self. They didn’t have somebody else doing the work.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Right.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>And so, you know, there’s[sic] certain jobs that—if you’re cut out for it. Not everybody’s cut out to be a farmer. A lot of people are going to have to start thinking about it though, because somebody’s got to grow food to eat.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Sir, and I do like to eat.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>And everybody likes to eat.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Yes, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>And the truth of the matter is there’s a lot of fussing going on now. People don’t like—well, one thing is dust. They don’t like the dust that farmers create when they plow their field. That’s the EPA—Environmental Protection Agency—and they want to stop that. Well, I don’t know how you’re gonna eat if you stop farm dust. But I’m talking out of bounds here.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Still interesting to hear, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>But that’s the way farmers feel. Although we consider ourselves farmers, we’re not farmers in the cattle business or corn business. We’re in the citrus business. But I guess you could say we could be in the citrus business without growing any of our own. We could buy it from somebody else, and pack it, ship it, and that would work, you know. But we do it all.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. My last question, if it’s all right with you, could you just give me a brief overview of how you actually grow citrus—the process for it.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Well, you plant a tree, and you grow it, and it ends up and blooms, and has fruit on it. That’s about it. It’s, you know—it’s just like any farming, and I think that’s what you’d have to say. It’s, you know—you’ve got to prepare the soil, if you want to call it. In the citrus business, you plant small trees—three feet tall—and after about five years, they have some oranges on them. Not very many, but enough, considered that you’ve got some fruit. And the maximum is about 20 years. And during this period of time, you fertilize them, and you prune them, and you just generally take care of them like a baby.</p>
<p class="Body">And things change in the business, such as—used to plant them 35 feet apart, and 35 feet in all directions, because the way that you get the weeds down was with a disc or harrow. So you went up and down the rows in one direction, and then across the rows in another directions to kill the weeds. And nowadays, you don’t do it that way. You plant them 10 feet apart in a row, and then you use chemicals to kill the weeds. And you also hedge them, because you don’t have that 35 feet. You have 10 feet. And you got big machines with big, round saws on it—three foot—and they’re spinning, and you go up and down the rows and make a hedge out of it. And that’s what’s really changed in the citrus business in the way that you grow citrus.</p>
<p class="Body">Plus, used to—you didn’t have very many ways to keep the fruit clean. Everybody wants to have a blemish-free piece of fruit. It don’t work that way. A friend of mine who used to disc and take care of the growth—first one I ever had—named Carl McWaters. His family was in the business, and he was a caretaker. He said, “Well, Mr. White,” said, “You know, my father worked for that packinghouse over there in Umatilla.” And whenever they had a—one of the diseases—not a disease—one of the bugs that you have. It’s called a “rust mite.” And a rust mite makes fruit look rusty. And he said, “Whenever we’d have a bad rust mite year, we’d go ahead and ship them up north anyway, and called them ‘Golden Rusty.’” Which made them sound a whole lot better than a rusty piece of fruit. So that was kind of interesting. Because they didn’t have any way to kill those rust mites.</p>
<p class="Body">And nowadays, you know, it’s an entire—oh, I don’t, what I want to say it. Crop protection, whether it’s citrus or other crops. It’s a whole world of taking care of those problems. In the United States and the agricultural business, the idea is to get rid of a problem instead of live with the problem. And that’s true with a lot of things, not just citrus. But, you know, if you got rust mites, you know—“Well, let’s get rid of those rust mites.” So you got 50 different companies out there trying to have chemicals to get rid of them. In a lot of countries that grow citrus, they don’t do that. They just live with it. And I see nothing wrong with that. But that’s kind of interesting too—how that kind of thing works. But, you know, the companies—some of the largest companies in the world are agricultural chemical companies.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>Anyway.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>That was it for my questions, actually. Did you have anything else you’d like to say?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>No. Not really. I may have said a whole lot more than I should have, to start with. But, uh, anyway…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Well, sir, it’s all great. Thank you very much, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>White<br /></strong>All right. Nice to talk.</p>
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<p><a title="">[1]</a> Sydney Octavius Chase, Sr.</p>
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<p><a title="">[2]</a> Joshua Coffin Chase.</p>
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<p><a title="">[3]</a> Junior Chamber of Commerce.</p>
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<p><a title="">[4]</a> Sanford Junior Chamber of Commerce; </p>
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Original <span>16-page digital transcript by Savannah Vickers: </span>White, Garnett. Interviewed by Joseph Morris. October 13, 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.
10th Street
7th Street
9th Street
aluminum
American Cancer Society
automobiles
B.L. Perkins' Store
bass
bicycles
bikes
Bluitt Stevens
Bobbi Goff
Boy Scouts of America
butchers
Carl McWaters
cars
celery
Chase and Company
citrus
citrus groves
Crooms Academy of Information Technology
Downtown Sanford
Eagle Scouts
Ed White
Elizabeth Wigham
Elm Avenue
farmers
farming
First Federal Savings & Loan
Garnett White
Golden Rusty
golf caddies
Greater Sanford Regional Chamber of Commerce
Hall
Harriet
Harrington
high schools
Historical Society of Central Florida
icehouses
Jacobs
Jaycees
Joseph Morris
Joshua Coffin Chase
Judy White
Lake Monroe
Laurel Avenue
Linda McKnight Batman Oral History Project
Lyman High School
Mac Cleaver
metal drives
mites
Monroe
motor vehicles
muck
muck farms
Museum of Seminole County History
newspaper routes
newspapers
Ninth Street
oilers
Operation Deep Freeze
orlando
Oviedo High School
packing houses
paper boys
Paulette Casen
Paulette White
Pelham, Georgia
quartermasters
railroads
railways
Ransidey
real estate
real estate agents
real estate appraisal
real estate brokers
real estate licenses
recessions
Red Hill Groves
reefers
refrigeration
rubbers
rust mites
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Sanford Grammar School
Sanford Jaycees
Sanford Junior Chamber of Commerce
Sanford Junior High School
Sanford-Seminole County Chamber of Commerce
Sanford-Seminole County Junior Chamber of Commerce
school lunches
Seminole County
Seminole High School
Seminole State College
Seventh Street
Southside Elementary
St. Augustine
Student Museum
Sydney Octavius Chase, Jr.
Sydney Octavius Chase, Sr.
Ted White
Tenth Street
The Florida Times-Union
The Sanford Herald
Triple S Groceteria
U.S. Navy
war effort
Winterville, Georgia
World War II
WWII
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Dublin Core
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Title
Seminole County Public Schools Collection
Alternative Title
SCPS Collection
Subject
Seminole County (Fla.)
Schools
High schools--Florida
Elementary schools
Grammar schools
Middle schools--Florida
Education--Florida
Teachers--Florida
Educators--Florida
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the educational history of Seminole County, Florida. Items from this collection are donated by the Student Museum and UCF Public History Center.
The Student Museum has collaborated with the University of Central Florida and established the UCF Public History Center (PHC). All of the Student Museum's collections are presently housed at the PHC. The goal of the PHC is to promote access to history through ground-breaking research connecting local to global, provide cutting-edge hands-on educational programs for students and visitors, and to engage the community in contributing to and learning from history.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a>
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>
Has Part
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/31" target="_blank">Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Cameron City, Sanford, Florida
Crooms Academy, Goldsoboro, Sanford, Florida
Chuluota Primary School, Chuluota, Florida
East Side Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Forest City School, Forest City, Altamonte Springs, Florida
Fort Reed, Sanford, Florida
Gabriella Colored School, Gabriella, Oviedo, Florida
Geneva Colored School, Geneva, Florida
Geneva Elementary, Geneva, Florida
Georgetown, Sanford, Florida
Goldsboro Primary School, Goldsboro, Sanford, Florida
Hungerford School, Florida
Kolokee, Geneva, Florida
Lake Howell High School, Winter Park, Florida
Lake Mary School, Lake Mary, Florida
Lake Monroe Colored School, Lake Monroe, Sanford, Florida
Longwood School, Longwood, Florida
Lyman High School, Longwood, Florida
Lyman Elementary School, Longwood, Florida
Midway, Sanford, Florida
Osceola School, Osceola, Geneva, Florida
Oviedo Colored School, Curryville, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo School, Oviedo, Florida
Paola, Florida
Sanford Grammar School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford High School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Junior High School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Middle School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Seminole County Public Schools, Sanford, Florida
Seminole High School, Sanford, Florida
South Side Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Student Museum, Sanford, Florida
UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida
Wagner Colored School, Florida
Westside Grammar Elementary School, Sanford, Florida
West Side Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Wilson School, Altamonte Springs, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Public History Center/Student Museum</a>
External Reference
<span>"</span><a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Public History Center</a><span>." Public History Center, University of Central Florida. http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/.</span>
<span>"</span><a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a><span>." Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx.</span>
Accrual Method
Donation
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
1 black and white photograph
Physical Dimensions
8 x 10 inch
Dublin Core
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Title
Sanford Junior High School Graduating Class, 1936-1937
Alternative Title
Sanford Junior High School Class
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
Junior high schools--Florida
Students--Florida
Description
Sanford Junior High School graduating class of 1936-1937. Sanford High School was originally established at 301 West Seventh Street in 1902. Due to an increasing student population, a new school building was constructed on the corner of East Ninth Street and South Palmetto Avenue in 1911. The original building on Seventh Street served as Westside Grammar Elementary School, which was later renamed Sanford Grammar School. In 1927, a high school campus was designed by Elton J. Moughton in the Mediterranean revival style and constructed at 1700 French Avenue. Sanford Junior High School was founded at the Palmetto and Ninth Street location, while the high school reopened on January 10 and was renamed Seminole High School. In 1960, the high school moved to a new campus at 2701 Ridgewood Avenue and the former building on French Avenue was converted to Sanford Junior High School, which was later renamed Sanford Middle School.
Source
Original 8 x 10 inch black and white photograph: item SM-104-008, <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, Sanford, Florida.
Date Created
ca. 1936-1937
Is Part Of
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, Sanford, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/73" target="_blank">Seminole County Public Schools Collection</a>, Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Format
image/jpg
Extent
165 KB
Medium
8 x 10 inch black and white photograph
Language
eng
Type
Still Image
Coverage
Sanford Junior High School, Sanford, Florida
Spatial Coverage
28.79645, -81.27456
Temporal Coverage
1936-08-01/1937-06-30
Accrual Method
Donation
Mediator
History Teacher
Geography Teacher
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank"> RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Public History Center/Student Museum</a>
External Reference
Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53015288" target="_blank"><em>Sanford</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.
Transcript
Sanford Junior High School, Sanford, Fla. <br />1936-1937 Graduating Class. (SM 104-008)
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 8 x 10 inch black and white photograph.
French Avenue
junior high school
Sanford
Sanford Junior High School
school
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Title
History Harvest Collection
Alternative Title
History Harvest Collection
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
Schools
Elementary schools
Grammar schools
High schools--Florida
Description
The Student Museum Collection encompasses historical artifacts donated for digitization at the Student Museum History Harvest in the Spring semester of 2013.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Sanford High School, Sanford, Florida
Westside Grammar Elementary School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Grammar School, Sanford, Florida
Student Museum, Sanford, Florida
UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a>
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center/Student Museum</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Public History Center</a>." Public History Center, University of Central Florida. http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/.
"<a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a>." Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx.
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
4 color photographs
Physical Dimensions
5 x 7 inch
Dublin Core
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Title
Demolition of Seminole High School
Alternative Title
Demolition of Seminole High School
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
High schools--Florida
High schools--Buildings
Buildings--Florida
Demolition
Schools
Description
Seminole High School's second building being demolished by Chapman & Son Demolition in 1991. At the time of the demolition, the building was being used as Sanford Middle School. The old building was replaced by a $5.77 million school complex.
The original Sanford High School was established at 301 West Seventh Street Sanford, Florida, in 1902. The building was designed by W. G. Talley in the Romanesque revival style. Due to an increasing student population, a new school building was constructed on Sanford Avenue in 1911. The original building on Seventh Street served as Westside Grammar Elementary School, which was later renamed Sanford Grammar School. In 1984, the building was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places and converted into the Student Museum. The building reopened as the University of Central Florida's Public History Center in 2012.
In 1927, a new high school campus was designed by Elton J. Moughton in the Mediterranean revival style and constructed at 1700 French Avenue. The school reopened on January 10 and was renamed Seminole High School. In 1960, the high school moved to a new campus at 2701 Ridgewood Avenue and the former building on French Avenue was converted to Sanford Junior High School, which was later renamed Sanford Middle School. As of 2013, Seminole High School offers various Advanced Placement courses, the Academy for Health Careers, and the International Baccalaureate Programme for students.
Source
Original 5 x 7 inch color photograph, 1991: Private Collection of Walter Smith.
Date Created
1991
Contributor
Smith, Walter
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 5 x 7 inch color photograph.
Is Referenced By
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/1669" target="_blank">Smith, Walter</a>. Interviewed by John Settle. UCF Public History Center, HAR 1063392P. March 2, 2013. Audio/video record available. <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, Sanford, Florida.
Format
image/jpg
Extent
123 KB
104 KB
146 KB
169 KB
Medium
4 color photographs
Language
eng
Type
Still Image
Coverage
Sanford Middle School, Sanford, Florida
Spatial Coverage
28.79645, -81.27456
Temporal Coverage
1991-06-02/1991-06-02
Accrual Method
Donation
Mediator
History Teacher
Geography Teacher
Provenance
Originally owned by Walter Smith.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by Walter Smith and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a> History Harvest, Spring 2013
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank"> RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53015288" target="_blank"><em>Sanford</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.
"<a href="http://www.sanford.scps.k12.fl.us/" target="_blank">Sanford Middle School</a>." Sanford Middle School, Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.sanford.scps.k12.fl.us/.
"<a href="http://www.seminolehs.scps.k12.fl.us/" target="_blank">Seminole High School</a>." Seminole High School, Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.seminolehs.scps.k12.fl.us/.
Source Repository
Private Collection of Walter Smith
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/73" target="_blank">Seminole County Public Schools Collection</a>, Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Transcript
CHAPMAN
DEMOLITION
CHAPMAN
DEMOLITION
(407) 423-7073
Chapman & Son Demolition
demolition
high school
Sanford
Sanford Junior High School
Sanford Middle School
school
Seminole High School
Smith, Walter
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Dublin Core
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
Seminole County Public Schools Collection
Alternative Title
SCPS Collection
Subject
Seminole County (Fla.)
Schools
High schools--Florida
Elementary schools
Grammar schools
Middle schools--Florida
Education--Florida
Teachers--Florida
Educators--Florida
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the educational history of Seminole County, Florida. Items from this collection are donated by the Student Museum and UCF Public History Center.
The Student Museum has collaborated with the University of Central Florida and established the UCF Public History Center (PHC). All of the Student Museum's collections are presently housed at the PHC. The goal of the PHC is to promote access to history through ground-breaking research connecting local to global, provide cutting-edge hands-on educational programs for students and visitors, and to engage the community in contributing to and learning from history.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a>
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>
Has Part
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/31" target="_blank">Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Cameron City, Sanford, Florida
Crooms Academy, Goldsoboro, Sanford, Florida
Chuluota Primary School, Chuluota, Florida
East Side Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Forest City School, Forest City, Altamonte Springs, Florida
Fort Reed, Sanford, Florida
Gabriella Colored School, Gabriella, Oviedo, Florida
Geneva Colored School, Geneva, Florida
Geneva Elementary, Geneva, Florida
Georgetown, Sanford, Florida
Goldsboro Primary School, Goldsboro, Sanford, Florida
Hungerford School, Florida
Kolokee, Geneva, Florida
Lake Howell High School, Winter Park, Florida
Lake Mary School, Lake Mary, Florida
Lake Monroe Colored School, Lake Monroe, Sanford, Florida
Longwood School, Longwood, Florida
Lyman High School, Longwood, Florida
Lyman Elementary School, Longwood, Florida
Midway, Sanford, Florida
Osceola School, Osceola, Geneva, Florida
Oviedo Colored School, Curryville, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo School, Oviedo, Florida
Paola, Florida
Sanford Grammar School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford High School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Junior High School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Middle School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Seminole County Public Schools, Sanford, Florida
Seminole High School, Sanford, Florida
South Side Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Student Museum, Sanford, Florida
UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida
Wagner Colored School, Florida
Westside Grammar Elementary School, Sanford, Florida
West Side Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Wilson School, Altamonte Springs, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Public History Center/Student Museum</a>
External Reference
<span>"</span><a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Public History Center</a><span>." Public History Center, University of Central Florida. http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/.</span>
<span>"</span><a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a><span>." Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx.</span>
Accrual Method
Donation
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
1 sepia photograph
Physical Dimensions
9 x 12 inches
Dublin Core
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Title
Seminole High School French Avenue Campus
Description
The second campus for Seminole High School, sometime after 1927. Although the caption on the photograph calls the campus Sanford High School, this particular campus was only named Seminole High School (1927-1961), Sanford Junior High School (1961-1970), and Sanford Middle School (1970-present). <br /><br /> Originally located at 301 West Seventh Street in Sanford, Florida, Seminole High School was first established as Sanford High School in 1902. The building was designed by W. G. Talley in the Romanesque revival style. Due to an increasing student population, a new school building was constructed on Sanford Avenue in 1911. The original building on Seventh Street served as Westside Grammar Elementary School, which was later renamed Sanford Grammar School. In 1984, the building was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places and converted into the Student Museum. The building reopened as the University of Central Florida's Public History Center in 2012. In 1927, a high school campus was designed by Elton J. Moughton in the Mediterranean revival style and constructed at 1700 French Avenue. The school reopened on January 10 and was renamed Seminole High School. In 1960, the high school moved to a new campus at 2701 Ridgewood Avenue and the former building on French Avenue was converted to Sanford Junior High School, which was later renamed Sanford Middle School. The old building was demolished in the summer of 1991 and replaced by a $5.77 million school complex. As of 2013, Seminole High School offers various Advanced Placement courses, the Academy for Health Careers, and the International Baccalaureate Programme for students.
Date Created
ca. 1927-1961
Coverage
Seminole High School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Junior High School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Middle School, Sanford, Florida
Spatial Coverage
Source
Original 9 x 12 inch sepia photograph: item SM-135-010, Seminole County Public Schools Collection, <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, Sanford, Florida.
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Public History Center/Student Museum</a>
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a> and is provided here by <a title="RICHES of Central Florida" href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.seminolehs.scps.k12.fl.us/" target="_blank">Seminole High School</a>." Seminole High School, Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.seminolehs.scps.k12.fl.us/.
Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53015288" target="_blank"><em>Sanford</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.
Transcript
Sanford High School, Sanford, FL (SM-135-010)
Sanford High School – 1927-1961
Sanford Junior High – 1961-1970
Sanford Middle School – 1970-present
Alternative Title
Seminole High French Ave. Campus
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
High schools--Florida
Schools
Buildings--Florida
Abstract
Photograph of Seminole High School
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 9 x 12 inch sepia photograph.
Is Part Of
Seminole County Public Schools Collection, <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, Sanford, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/73" target="_blank">Seminole County Public Schools Collection</a>, Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Format
image/jpg
Extent
569 KB
Medium
9 x 12 inch sepia photograph
Language
eng
Type
Still Image
Accrual Method
Donation
Audience Education Level
Mediator
History Teacher
Geography Teacher
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
education
French Avenue
high school
junior high school
middle school
Sanford
Sanford High School
Sanford Junior High School
Sanford Middle School
school
Seminole High School
SHS
student