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Title
Oviedo Historical Society Collection
Alternative Title
Oviedo Historical Society Collection
Subject
Oviedo (Fla).
Description
The Oviedo Historical Society Collection encompasses historical artifacts donated for digitization at the Oviedo Historical Society's History Harvest in the Spring semester of 2015.
The Oviedo Historical Society was organized in November 1973 by a group of citizens. The society is a 501(3) non-profit organization. Its purpose is to help preserve the community identity of Oviedo by collecting and disseminating knowledge about local history, serve as a repository for documents and artifacts relating to Oviedo history, promote the preservation and marking of historic sites and buildings in the Oviedo area and foster interest in local, state, national, and world history.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/128" target="_blank">Oviedo Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Oviedo, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>
<a href="http://history.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=304" target="_blank">Dr. Connie L. Lester</a>'s Introduction to Public History course, Spring 2015
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>." Oviedo Historical Society, Inc. http://oviedohs.com/.
Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979.
Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012.
"<a href="http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68" target="_blank">History</a>." City of Oviedo, Florida. http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68.
"<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
17-page booklet
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Title
The Lawtons of Summer Oaks
Alternative Title
Lawtons of Summer Oaks
Subject
Oviedo (Fla.)
Description
The family lineage for the Lawtons of Summer Oaks in Oviedo, Florida. This family tree begins with William Lawton, who was born in England, and continues through to the family of Betty Jean Aulin Reagan. This booklet is missing pages 2, 3, and 5. Joseph Lawton (1753-1815), the son of William Lawton of England and Mary Sams, was the patriarch that began the native-born Lawton legacy. Lawton was born on his father's Plantation, Steamboat Creek, on Edisto Island, South Carolina on October 18, 1753. By 1774, Lawton moved his family to Black Swamp, where he established a plantation called Mulberry Grove Plantation. Lawton married Sarah Robert (d. 1839) on March 18, 1773, and together they had seven children. <br /><br />The best-known of the Lawton family was Thomas Willingham Lawton (1882-1963). T. W. Lawton graduated from Rollins College in 1903. He later received his master's degree from Andover Newton College in Boston, Massachusetts. Following college, Lawton returned to Oviedo, where he married Charlotte "Lottie" Lee (1887-1984) and served as the principal of the Oviedo School from 1905 to 1907. In 1916, he became the first elected Superintendent of Schools of Seminole County. He held that post until 1952 and passed away 11 years later in 1963. Lawton Elementary School is named in his honor.
Type
Text
Source
Original 17-page booklet: Church, Stacey Allene and Gerald Marshall Church. <em>The Lawtons of Summer Oaks</em>. Lawton and Allied Families Association, 1984: Private Collection of Betty Jean Aulin Reagan.
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Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/147" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society Collection</a>, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 17-page booklet: Church, Stacey Allene and Gerald Marshall Church. <em>The Lawtons of Summer Oaks</em>. Lawton and Allied Families Association, 1984.
Coverage
Summer Oaks Plantation, Thomas County, Georgia
Oviedo, Florida
Creator
Church, Stacey Allene
Church, Gerald Marshall
Publisher
Lawton and Allied Families Association
Contributor
Reagan, Bettye Jean Aulin
Date Created
1984
Date Copyrighted
1984
Format
application/pdf
Extent
5.74 MB
Medium
17-page booklet
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Stacey Allene Church and Gerald Marshall Church, and published by the Lawton and Allied Families Association.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the Lawton and Allied Families Association and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
Private Collection of Bettye Jean Aulin Reagan
External Reference
Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012.
Rajtar, Steve. "<a href="http://www.geocities.ws/krdvry/hikeplans/oviedo/planoviedo.html" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Trail</a>". Steve Rajtar. http://www.geocities.ws/krdvry/hikeplans/oviedo/planoviedo.html.
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/5657" target="_blank">History of the First Baptist Church, Oviedo, Florida: First 100 Years, 1869-1969</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/5657.
Alan Denise Evans
Alan Laurie
Alexander Benjamin Lawton
Alice Irene Barlett
Alice Kathryn Aulin
Alice Kathryn Aulin Bunch
Allen Baker Grogan
Allene Baker
Allie Belle McLeish
Allie Belle McLeish Lawton
Allison Susanne Taylor
Allyson Clare Kinsey
Allyson Clare Kinsey Evans
Almarion Lorraine Colquitt
Almarion Lorraine Colquitt King
Alton Asa Dunaway
Amber Miller
Amy Clark Lawton
Amy Louise Hendrix
Amy Louise Hendrix Steil
Andrea Nicole Phillips
Andrea Nicole Phillips Hendrix
Andrew Aulin
Andrew Scott Reagan
Andy Aulin
Ann Neely Lawton
Ann Reagan
Anna Leola Hats
Anna Leola Hays Miller
Anna Lona Miller
Anna Lona Miller Johnson
Annabelle Linger
Annabelle Linger Lawton
Arthur Frank Evans
Audrey June Wilson
B. F. Wheeler, Jr.
B. F. Wheeler, Sr.
Ben Franklin Wheeler
Benjamin F. Lawton
Benjamin Franklin Wheeler III
Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Jr.
Benjamin Franklin Wheeler, Sr.
Benjamin Themistocles Dion Lawton
Bennett Jay Johnson
Betty Joan Ottalani
Betty Joan Ottalani Freckelton
Betty Lou Brau
Betty Lou Brau Miller
Betty Sue Terry
Betty Sue Terry Lawton
Betty Virginia Miller
Bettye Jean Aulin
Bettye Jean Aulin Reagan
Beulah Lawton
Beverly Elaine Hughes
Beverly Elaine Hughes Evans
Billie Beatrice Bunch
Billie Beatrice Bunch Dingman
Bird Mary Lee
Birdie Lawton
Birdie Lawton Grogan
Brandi Lawton Tolar
Brandon Wayne Langham
Brett Thomas Lawton
Brian Douglas Swank
Brian Keith Leibfried
Brian Ottalani
Brooksville
Buddy Keller
Calhoun Wilson Hendrix
Carol Lorraine King
Carol Lorraine King Rhyme
Carole Joan Norton
Carole Joan Norton Berrong
Caroline Elizabeth Evans
Caroline Elizabeth Evans Leibfried
Casey Dyan Carron
Casey Dyan Carron Keller
Catherine Elizabeth Long
Catherine Elizabeth Long Evans
Charles Aulin
Charles Hampton Harris
Charles Homer Colquitt
Charles John Lawton
Charles Warren Aulin
Charles William Evans
Charlet Sue Genton
Charlet Sue Genton Wheeler
Charlotte Lee
Charlotte Lee Lawton
Charlotte Lee Lawton Mikesell
Chester Lee Phillips
Christopher Kevin Grogan
Christopher Leon
Christopher Wilson
Cindy Deborah Church
Cindy Deborah Church Hunt
Claire Lee Wheeler
Claire Lee Wheeler Evans
Claire Marena Leinhard
Claire Marena Leinhard O'Brien
Clara Curtis Lawton
Clara Curtis Lawton Leinhard
Clara Isabelle Lawton
Clara Isabelle Lawton Wheeler
Clara Lawton
Clara Lawton McKinney
Clara Lee Wheeler
Clara Lee Wheeler Evans
Clara Lillian Adams
Clara Lillian Adams Sullivan
Clara Mattie Colquitt
Clara Mattie Colquitt Allen
Claude DeWitt Moore
Clifford Lilburn Rhyme
Connie Lawton
Connie Lawton Griggs
Connor Lucas Keller
Courtney Ann Erwin
Craig Allen Berrong
Dan Lloyd McKibber
Daniel Blaine Mikesell
Daniel Lee Reagan
David Guy Ottalani
David Lee Evans
Dawn Michelle Grogan
Debbie Lynn Reagan
Deborah Bailey
Deborah Bailey Lawton
Debra Jane Harris
Debra Jane Harris Matkin
Dee Royston Allen
Diana Leigh Evans
Diane Jean Berrong
Diane Sue Aulin
Diane Sue Aulin Keller
Diane Sue Aulin Pentz
Donald Henry Stiel
Donald T. Reagan
Donna Lee Barrack
Donna Lee Barrack Evans
Donna Neely
Donna Susan Miller
Doris Arine McKinney
Doris Arine McKinney Lawton
Dorothy Louise Stone
Dorothy Louise Stone Grogan
Dorothy Virginia Lawton
Dorothy Virginia Lawton Johnson
Doyle Dauphin
Dustin Chavallier
Edisto Island Plantation
Edward Paul Chavallier
Edwina Tuggle
Edwina Tuggle Lawton
Eldred Pierce Bruce
Eliaine Allison Grogan
Elizabeth Ann McKinney
Elizabeth Ann Moon
Elizabeth Ann Moon Aulin
Elizabeth Joan Freckelton
Elizabeth Joan Freckelton McGowan
Elizabeth Lawton Andress
Elizabeth Mary Brisbane
Elizabeth Mary Brisbane Lawton
Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moon Aulin
Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson Lawton
Emma Lenora Lawton
Emma Lenora Lawton Aulin
Emma Marie Aulin
Eric Lawton Grogan
Ethel Elizabeth Kramer
Ethel Elizabeth Kramer Colquitt
Eusebia Lawton
Evelyn Wheeler
Evelyn Wheeler Kemp
Fannie Pearl Colquitt
Florence Wheeler
Florence Wheeler Campbell
Frances Carden
Frances Carden Bernreuter
Frank Wheeler, Jr.
Frank Wheeler, Sr.
Fred Emmett Hamiter
Frederick Clinton Berrong
Freida Lou Guy
Freida Lou Guy McKinney
G. Douglas Swank
Gary Lawton Grogan
Geneva
George Beauregard Wilber
George Joseph Lawton
George L. Simpson
George Lee
George Lee Wheeler
George William Martin
Georgia Lee
Georgia Lee Wheeler
Gerald Marshall Church
Glenda Lawton
Gloria Lewis
Gloria Lewis McKinney
Glorianna Lawton
Glover L. Bernreuter
Grace Marie Smith
Grace Marie Smith Lawton
Greta Lynn Simpson
Guinever Elizabeth Morgan Lawton
Guinevere Elizabeth Morgan
Guy Adams Ottalani
Guy Felix Ottalani
Guy Nixon Lawton
Guy Wayne Langham
Harrison Jean Laney
Hazel Pamela West
Hazel Pamela West Martin
Helen Bernreuter
Helen Lawton
Helen Lawton Bernreuter
Henry Franklin Colquitt
Henry Peyton Colquitt
Henry Wilson Keller
Herb Bickers
Hugh Benjamin McKinney
Hugh Clifford McKinney
Ida Jane Carson
Ida Jane Carson Lawton
Ida Lawton
Ida Lawton Colquitt
Ida Peyton Colquitt
Ida Peyton Colquitt Wilber
Irene Lavelle Lawton
Irene Lavelle Lawton Sibley
Jack Lilburn King
Jack Todd Miller
Jackson McGowan
Jacksonville
James A. Miller
James Alexander Graham
James Barry Freckelton
James Clayton
James Elbert Moncrief
James Garrett Lawton
James Guy Freckelton
James Longeran Sullivan
James Lutellus Nichols
James Richards
James Russell Lee
James Theodore Aulin
James Tillman Grogan
James Wilburn Grogan
Jane Ann Beauregard
Jane Anne Grogan
Jane Anne Grogan Church
Jane Kathryn Polk
Jane Kathryn Polk Beauregard
Jane Lawton Moncrief
Jane Lawton Moncrief Miller
Jane Mosse
Jane Mosse Lawton
Jason Bickers
Jason Lilburn King
Jason Theodore Aulin
Jean Audrey Moran
Jean Audrey Moran Wheeler
Jefferson Miller Moncrief
Jeffrey Martin Hendrix
Jeffrey Neal Berrong
Jeremiah Lawton
Jeremy Dauphin
Jill Lawton
Jo Ann Miller
Jo Ann Miller Nichols
Jo Lynn Moncrief
Jo Lynn Moncrief Laurie
Joan Berrong
Joan Berrong Anderson
Joan Lareatha Bernreuter
Joan Lareatha Bernreuter Trowbridge
John Arthur Evans
John Cater Lawton
John Joseph Leinhard
John Kinglsey Lawton
John Lilburn King
John Marion Miller
John O'Connor Adams
John Raymond Shearer
John Settle
John Thomas Wheeler
John Wesley Evans
John William Martin
John Winborn Miller
Joseph James Lawton
Joseph Lawton
Josephine Lawton
Josiah Lawton
Judge Aulin
Judi Berrong
Julia Ann Hamiter
Julia Ann Hamiter Andress
Julia Lawton
Julia Lawton Hamiter
Julia Nadine Davis
Julia Nadine Davis Aulin
Julie Karen Reagan
June Ann McCary
June Anne McCary Mitchell
Justin Miller
Katherine Louise McKinney
Katherine Louise McKinney Chavallier
Kathleen Reagan
Kathleen Susan Bernreuter
Kathryn Eileen Phillips
Kathryn Eileen Phillips Berrong
Kathryn Elizabeth Beauregard
Kathryn Elizabeth McKibber
Kathryn Lee Wheeler
Kathryn Lee Wheeler Leon
Kathryn Louise Lawton
Kathryn Louise Lawton Varn
Kathy Ann Harris
Kathy Ann Harris Langham
Kathy Irene Johnson
Kathy Irene Johnson Steen
Kathy Irene Johnson Wilkerson
Kathy Lee Wheeler
Kathy Lee Wheeler Leon
Katie May Adams
Katie May Adams Phillips
Kaylin Marie Evans
Kenneth Mitchell Griggs
Kevin Ottalani
Kevin Raymond Berrong
Kimberley Louise Morris
Kimberley Louise Morris Miller
Kirk Ashley Grogan
Kissimmee River
Lane Palmer Lundy
Lareatha Tonguet
Lareatha Tonguet Bernreuter
Larry Clinton McKinney
Laura Harmon
Laura Harmon Ottalani
Laura Lee Evans
Laura Lee Evans Neil
Lawrence Clifford Rhyme
Lawrence Wayne Hamby
Lawton and Allied Families Association
Lawton Gwynn Bernreuter
Lawton Smith Berrong
Lee Burton Hunt
Lee Holley Mitchell
Letcher Burton Hunt
Lillian Della Lee
Lillian Della Lee Lawton
Lillian Elizabeth Lawton
Lillian Elizabeth Lawton Laney
Lillie Clara McKinney
Lillie Clara McKinney Mitchell
Lily LaVange Neil
Linda Etel Colquitt
Linda Etel Colquitt Taylor
Linda Lou Davis
Lisa Ann Robinson
Lisa Ann Robinson Andress
Lisa Jane Lundy
Llewellyn Roberts Barlett, Jr.
Lona Kathryn Johnson
Lona Kathryn Johnson Clayton
Lona Kellam Colquitt
Lona Lawton
Lona Lawton Aulin
Lona Pierson Lawton
Lona Pierson Lawton Miller
Lorene Aulin
Lori Anne Roussell
Lori Anne Roussell Aulin
Lorraine Lawton
Lorraine Lawton Berrong
Lottie Lee
Lottie Lee Lawton
Lucille Adams
Lucille Adams Ottalani
Lucy Nell Wainwright
Lucy Nell Wainwright Colquitt
Margaret Elizabeth Grogan
Margaret Ellyn Barlett
Margaret Ellyn Barlett Torrence
Margaret Emily Lawton
Margaret Emily Lawton Dunaway
Marian Lee Swank
Marilyn Lee Mikesell
Marilyn Lee Mikesell Swank
Marissa Jane Hunt
Marjorie Lee Simpson
Mark McDannald Martin
Marlin Leon Smith
Marsha Greer Mikesell
Marsha Greer Mikesell Bremerkamp
Marsha Greer Mikesell Simpson
Martha Ann Bruce
Martha Ann Bruce Wilson
Martha Ann Colquitt
Martha Ann Colquitt Erwin
Martha Lawton
Martha Lee Courier
Martha Lee Courier Wheeler
Martha Lenora Aulin
Martha Lenora Aulin Wheeler
Martha S. Lawton
Martha S. Lawton Gwynn
Martin Leon Smith
Marty Ann Bruce
Marty Ann Bruce Wilson
Mary Alice Powell
Mary Alice Powell Aulin
Mary Ann Lawton
Mary Ann Lawton Harris Mary Ann Lawton Smith
Mary Anne Martin
Mary Anne Martin Hendrix
Mary Clarke
Mary Clarke Lawton
Mary Elizabeth Hamiter
Mary Elizabeth Matkin
Mary Gwynn
Mary Gwynn Lawton
Mary Hallie Colquitt
Mary Hallie Colquitt Settle
Mary Hannah Aulin
Mary Hannah Aulin Grogan
Mary Jane Lawton
Mary Kathryn Bunch
Mary Kathryn Bunch Hamby
Mary Lawton
Mary Leonora Aulin
Mary Leonora Aulin Barlett
Mary Lina Lawton
Mary Lisa Lawton
Mary Lorraine Cox
Mary Lorraine McKinney
Mary Martha Grogan
Mary Martha Grogan Lundy
Mary Mathews
Mary Pauline Wheeler
Mary Peyton Hendrix
Mary Ruth Griffin
Mary Ruth Griffin Lawton
Mary Sams
Mary Sams Grimball
Mary Sams Grimball Lawton
Mary Sams Grimball Lawton Fickling
Mary Stone Grimball
Mary Stone Grimball Lawton
Mary Winborn
Mary Winborn Lawton
Mattie Clifford McKinney
Mattie Clifford McKinney Lee
Mattie Josephine Lawton
Mattie Josephine Lawton Adams
Melanie Sommer Miller
Meriwether Blair Dickinson
Merle Lynn Eldridge Grogan
Merle Lynn Eldrige
Michael Douglas Berrong
Michelle Moran Bruce
Michelle Moran Bruce Piper
Miriam Ann Wheeler
Miriam Ann Wheeler Bruce
Miriam Louise Wheeler
Miriam Louise Wheeler Martin
Mulberry Grove Plantation
Myatt Bernard Johnson
Nancy Ann Barlett
Narcissa Melissa Lawton
Neal Erwin
Nettie Dorcas Jacobs
Nettie Dorcas Jacobs Aulin
Nicole Leigh Aulin
Nicole Leigh Aulin Jakubcin
Noah Benjamin Wheeler
Novella Almarine Carter
Novella Almarine Carter Aulin
Olan Ray Lundy
orlando
Oviedo
Oviedo: Biography of a Town
Pat Warren
Pat Warren Wheeler
Patricia Carol Dunaway
Patricia Carol Dunaway Shearer
Patricia Eileen Barlett
Patricia Eileen Barlett Armstrong
Patricia Gray Garrett
Patricia Gray Garrett Lawton
Patrick Kelley Reagan
Patrick O'Brien
Patrick Reagan
Patsey Louise Grogan
Patsey Louise Grogan Richards
Paul Campbell
Paula Jeanne Abbott
Paula Jeanne Abbott Martin
Pearl Allison
Pearl Allison Lawton
Peggy Ottalani
Phoebe Sarah Lawton
Pierce Sutherland Graham
Pierre Robert
Polly Wheeler
R. Edward Bremerkamp
Rachal McKinney
Ralph Raymond McKinney
Ralph Waldo Lawton
Randall Michael Miller
Raymond Christian McKinney
Raymond Winborn Lawton
Rebecca Ann Smith
Rebecca Ann Smith Tolar
Rebecca Carol Miller
Reid Gregory Hendrix
Richard Adicks
Richard Bickham Miller
Richard Burdette Bunch
Richard Eugen Anderson
Richard Roderick Jakubcin
Rita Catherine Robinson
Rita Catherine Robinson Grogan
Robert B. Trowbridge
Robert Charles Lawton
Robert Charles Matkin
Robert Edward Pentz
Robert Franklin Harris
Robert Gary Taylor
Robert James Lawton
Robert Kenneth Miller
Robert Lee Kemp Wheeler
Robert Lee Wheeler
Robert Themistocles Lawton
Robert Torrence
Robert William Lawton
Robin Clara McKinney
Roma Ann McKinney
Roman Ann McKinney Martin
Ronald Furman Lawton
Ronda Lawton
Ronda Lawton Dauphin
Rosemary Phillips
Rosemary Phillips Harris
Rowan Alexander Piper
Ruth Ida Aulin
Sandra Aulin
Sandra Elizabeth Procell
Sandra Elizabeth Procell McKinney
Sarah Lawton
Sarah Lucille Lawton
Sarah Lucille Lawton Dickinson
Sarah Marshall
Sarah Marshall Lawton
Sarah Robert
Sarah Robert Lawton
Scott Lawton
Scott Reagan
Sean Edward Piper
Shelley Moran Bruce
Shelley Moran Bruce Piper
Sherrie Gail Lawton
Sherrie Gail Lawton Bickers
Sherry Smith
Sheryl Guy Lawton
Skip Hendrix
St. James Island
Stacey Allen Church
Stacey Allene Church
Steven Aulin
Steven Kendall McKinney
Summer Oaks
Susan Denise Miller
Susan Denise Miller Evans
Susan Elaine Johnson
Susan Elizabeth Colquitt
Susan Elizabeth Colquitt McKibber
Susan Kathleen Perham
Susan Kathleen Perham Laney
Susan Ottalani
T. W. Lawton, Jr.
T. W. Lawton, Sr.
Ted Aulin
Terrell Hugh Mitchell
Thelma Lee
Thelma Lee Clonts
Thelma Louise Wheeler
Theodore Aulin
Thirza Lawton
Thomas Charles Lawton
Thomas J. Lawton
Thomas Wayne Armstrong
Thomas Wilkerson
Thomas Willingham Lawton, Jr.
Thomas Willingham Lawton, Sr.
Timothy Miles Matkin
Tina Grace Dunn Rogers
Tina Grace Dunn Rogers Wheeler
Todd Christopher Keller
Tom Lawton
Velma Leonora Grogan
Virgil Guy Martin
Virginia Olive Lawton
W. J. Lawton, Jr.
W. J. Lawton, Sr.
Walter Gwynn
Walter Gwynn Lawton
Walter Harold Varn
Walter Kenneth Neil
Wilber Gerald Beauregard
Wilber Lamar Sibley
Wilburn Aulin Grogan
Wilburn Michael Grogan
William Alex Colquitt
William E. Dingman
William Edward Lawton
William Henry Lawton
William Henry Martin
William Lawton, Jr.
William Lawton, Sr.
William LeRoy Mitchell
William Steen
Willie Knox Andress
Winborn Joseph Lawton, Jr.
Winborn Joseph Lawton, Sr.
Winborn Lawton
Winnie Evelyn Colquitt
Winnie Evelyn Colquitt Moore
Yvette Lorraine Anderson
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Title
Oviedo Historical Society Collection
Alternative Title
Oviedo Historical Society Collection
Subject
Oviedo (Fla).
Description
The Oviedo Historical Society Collection encompasses historical artifacts donated for digitization at the Oviedo Historical Society's History Harvest in the Spring semester of 2015.
The Oviedo Historical Society was organized in November 1973 by a group of citizens. The society is a 501(3) non-profit organization. Its purpose is to help preserve the community identity of Oviedo by collecting and disseminating knowledge about local history, serve as a repository for documents and artifacts relating to Oviedo history, promote the preservation and marking of historic sites and buildings in the Oviedo area and foster interest in local, state, national, and world history.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/128" target="_blank">Oviedo Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Oviedo, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>
<a href="http://history.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=304" target="_blank">Dr. Connie L. Lester</a>'s Introduction to Public History course, Spring 2015
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>." Oviedo Historical Society, Inc. http://oviedohs.com/.
Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979.
Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012.
"<a href="http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68" target="_blank">History</a>." City of Oviedo, Florida. http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68.
"<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
28-page booklet
Dublin Core
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Title
The Oviedo Outlook: Centennial Edition
Alternative Title
Oviedo Outlook Centennial Edition
Subject
Oviedo (Fla.)
Description
The centennial edition of <em>The Oviedo Outlook</em> published in 1979 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Oviedo, Florida. The newspaper begins with a brief history of Oviedo, followed by articles devoted to important members of the community, including Evelyn Cheek Lundy and John Lundy, Thad Lee Lingo, Jr. and Lacy Aire Lingo, Clare Wheeler Evans, Wayne Jacobs and Karen Jansen Jacobs, Thomas Moon, Marguerite Partin, Frank Wheeler, Katherine Lawton, Tom Estes, Ed Yarborough and Ima Jean Bostick Yarborough, Virginia Balkcom Mikler, Paul Mikler, Sparks Lingo Ridenour and John Ridenour, Ray "Rex" Clonts and Thelma Lee Clonts, Jean Jordan and Harold Jordan, the Malcolm family, Edward Duda, Penny Mitchem Olliff and Leon Olliff, Louise Wheeler Martin and Bill Martin, Miriam "Mimi" Wheeler Bruce and Douglas Allen, Viola Smith, and Cay Westerfield.
Type
Text
Source
Original 28-page booklet: <em>The Oviedo Outlook: Centennial Edition</em>, 1979: <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>, Oviedo, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Is Part Of
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>, Oviedo, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/147" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society Collection</a>, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 28-page booklet: <em>The Oviedo Outlook: Centennial Edition</em>, 1979.
Coverage
Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
First Baptist Church of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida
First Methodist Church of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo Woman's Club, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo, Post Office, Oviedo, Florida
Memorial Building, Oviedo, Florida
Sweetwater Park, Oviedo, Florida
Lake Charm, Oviedo, Florida
Lake Jesup, Oviedo, Florida
Geneva, Florida
St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Slavia, Oviedo, Florida
White's Wharf, Oviedo, Florida
Citizens Bank of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida
Citizens Bank of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida
Publisher
<em>The Oviedo Outlook</em>
Date Created
1979
Date Issued
1979
Date Copyrighted
1979
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application/pdf
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11.8 MB
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28-page booklet
Language
eng
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History Teacher
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Originally published by <em>The Oviedo Outlook</em>.
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Copyright to this resource is held by <em>The Oviedo Outlook</em> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
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Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3.
Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979.
"<a href="http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68" target="_blank">History</a>." City of Oviedo, Florida. http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68.
Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012.
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Title
Linda McKnight Batman Oral History Project Collection
Alternative Title
Linda McKnight Batman Collection
Subject
Ocala (Fla.)
Orlando (Fla.)
Oviedo (Fla.)
Port Tampa (Fla.)
Sanford (Fla.)
Silver Springs (Fla.)
Titusville (Fla.)
Zellwood (Fla.)
Description
Collection of oral histories depicting the history of Seminole County, Florida. The project was funded by Linda McKnight Batman, a former teacher, historian, and Vice President of the State of Florida Commission on Ethics.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>
External Reference
<span>Museum of Seminole County History, and University of Central Florida. </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/744676869" target="_blank"><em>Researcher's Guide to Seminole County Oral Histories: Linda McKnight Batman Oral History Project</em></a><span>. [Sanford, Fla.]: Museum of Seminole County History, 2010.</span>
Contributor
<a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>
Coverage
Seminole County, Florida
Ocala, Florida
Oviedo, Florida
Port Tampa, Florida
Sanford, Florida
Silver Springs, Florida
Titusville, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
Linda McKnight Batman Oral History Project
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
Morris, Joseph
Interviewee
Clonts, Rex, Jr.
Location
Rex Clonts, Jr.'s home in Florida
Bit Rate/Frequency
1411kpbs
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Title
Oral History of Rex Clonts, Jr.
Alternative Title
Oral History, Clonts
Subject
Oviedo (Fla.)
Celery
Agriculture--Florida
Zellwood (Fla.)
Citrus--Florida
Cattle--Florida
Ants--United States
Description
An oral history of Rex Clonts, Jr., conducted by Joseph Morris on November 2, 2011. Clonts was born in Orlando, Florida, but he was raised in Oviedo. In the interview, Clonts discusses his family's work in agriculture, celery farming, how Oviedo has changed over time, the effect of Walt Disney World and the University of Central Florida (UCF) on the region, the citrus and cattle industries, the relationship between the Oviedo community and the Naval Air Station Sanford (NAS Sanford), and fire ants in Florida.
Table Of Contents
0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:40 Family background in agriculture
0:11:32 Celery farming
0:12:06 RECORDING CUTS OFF
0:12:07 Celery farming
0:20:23 Bleaching celery
0:25:34 Childhood memories of mules
0:29:13 Working in the fields
0:31:01 How Oviedo has changed over time
0:33:13 Arrival of Walt Disney World and the University of Central Florida
0:38:11 Evolution of the citrus industry
0:42:27 Central Florida weather
0:43:28 Cattle industry
0:45:19 College education
0:45:46 Plane crash near Oviedo High School
0:48:58 Relationship between the Oviedo community and the Sanford Naval Training Center
0:50:40 Fire ants in Florida
0:55:06 Closing remarks
Abstract
Oral history interview of Rex Clonts, Jr. Interview conducted by Joseph Morris at Clonts' home in Florida.
Type
Sound
Source
Original 55-minute and 16-second oral history: Clonts, Rex, Jr. Interviewed by Joseph Morris. November 2, 2011. Audio record available. <a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>, Sanford, Florida.
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<a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>, Sanford, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/123" target="_blank">Linda McKnight Batman Oral History Project Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Coverage
Oviedo, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Black Hammock, Oviedo, Florida
Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
Naval Air Station Sanford, Sanford, Florida
Creator
Morris, Joseph
Clonts, Rex, Jr.
Date Created
2011-11-02
Date Modified
2014-09-09
Date Copyrighted
2011-11-02
Format
audio/wav
application/pdf
Extent
557 MB
151 KB
Medium
55-minute and 16-second audio recording
18-page typed transcript
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Geography Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Joseph Morris.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3" target="_blank">Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3.
Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979.
Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012.
"<a href="http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68" target="_blank">History</a>." City of Oviedo, Florida. http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68.
Transcript
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>It is November 2, 2011, and I'm talking to Rex Clonts[, Jr.] at his residence. I am Joseph Morris, representing the Linda McKnight Batman Oral History Project for the Historical Society of Central Florida. Mr. Clonts, could you tell us a little about your life?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, I was born in 1949 in the hospital, in Orange Memorial Hospital in Orlando, to Rex Clonts, Sr., my dad, and my mother, Thelma Lee Clonts. I'm gonna talk a little bit about their life, if that's okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Perfect, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>My dad came to Oviedo riding in the lap of his mother—he was one year old, age of one—in a Model A Ford, from north Georgia in 1937, I believe. And my mother was born here on Lake Charm in Oviedo. They both passed on rather recently. They—so, basically, both lifelong residents of Oviedo. And after the war [World War II] they married, and I'm the oldest of their five children. Four of us still live right here in Seminole County, and have one sister who lives in Cartersville, Georgia. </p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>What kind of jobs did your parents do while they lived in Oviedo, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Their families were in agriculture. Oh, let me start over. Let me start back just a little bit. My mother's family had—her grandfather had moved down here in the 1880s, and her father—my grandfather—C. S. Lee, was born here on Lake Charm in Oviedo. And his dad was in agriculture, taking care of citrus trees. And so my grandfather was always in the citrus, vegetable, and cattle business. And so my mother was familiar with all those endeavors coming up, and it was natural that she married a farmer—my father. His father also had begun farming shortly after arriving in Oviedo. </p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Same type of farming, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Both of them were vegetable farmers growing celery.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>They grew some other crops from time to time, but specialized in celery farming. And so—growing up here—that's what my family did. We had some orange groves, but the majority of the family focus was on the vegetable farming operation. C. R. Clonts Associated Growers was the company that my grandfather started in the early 1940s, and at one time we farmed over 200 acres of celery right here in eastern Seminole County-Oviedo area. You got a mosquito on your cheek. Got him.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Thank you, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Celery farming was extremely profitable, lucrative during the early '30s and '40s. Sort of the heyday of the Oviedo celery industry. So their timing was good. But over—after the war, when all the boys came home from the war, and a lot more celery was being grown in the United States, markets went down. Prices went down. The small farms here in Oviedo weren't as easy to operate—weren't as efficient. And so my father and grandfather purchased land in Zellwood—in the Zellwood muck area on Lake Apopka. And they did that in anticipation of needing to be having a more modern, large, contiguous farm. So they purchased that in the year I was born, in 1949. So when I grew up, we were farming both places. My father was farming both—multiple small farms here around Oviedo—Black Hammock, Mitchell Hammock, the Slavia area—and we were raising vegetables at our Zellwood farm. And that was 650 acres. And as a child, I remember going over, and every year they would clear up another portion of that farm. So they started by farming just 40 acres, and then over about another 10 or 12 years, they cleared the rest of it so that they could farm all 650 acres over there.</p>
<p class="Body">When I went off to college, I specifically—I went to school so that I wouldn't be a farmer. I could have stayed home and been a farmer. So I was planning on working in the business world, and just before I graduated realized the one business I could control was coming back here, taking over the family farm. And so I came back and joined actively working full-time in 1971, when I got out of college. And I moved over to Apopka and ran that Zellwood farm. We grew celery, lettuce, carrots, sweet corn, occasionally onions and parsley—several crops over the years, but the staple was always celery, sweet corn, and carrots. And in about 1978, we closed down our last Oviedo farm. Up until that time, we'd been farming both places, but we closed that down, and the last farm land that we were actively farming is now—is in Mitchell Hammock—is now a sod farm along Mitchell Hammock in between Mitchell Hammock and Chapman Roads. So, no longer used for vegetables. Family still owns the land, but we don't farm vegetables anymore.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. So your family's no longer in the farming business, but they were in the farming business up until 1978?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts <br /></strong>Well, we still were in business here in several ways. We always had orange groves here. </p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>And we have cattle ranches.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Those were my follow-up questions.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah. You know, you'd find most people that had been multi-generational in the vegetable business in Central Florida also have had orange groves and cattle, because the three just naturally go together here. And you can, if you're successful in one, you're able to be successful in the other, usually.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>How come they go together like that, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, vegetables are very seasonal, so, you know, you've got a fall crop and a spring crop, but you got time on your hands during the other portions of the year. So orange grove tends to be more year-round work, but is not as intensive as vegetable farming, so you can sort of work the two together. And then if you've been successful in the vegetable business, usually you reinvest in land, and very often the best use for that land is cattle. Only certain types of land are good vegetable land, but cattle you can graze just about anywhere in Central Florida.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. Could you give us a little insight into how you grow vegetables—celery in particular, citrus in particular—like the methods of how you would go about it?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Celery's, in nature, celery grows, um—stop it.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Sure thing, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. Would you like to continue?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah. Celery in Central Florida is—the seed is planted in the fall, and it’s planted in seed beds so that you can grow a large number of plants in a small, controlled area. You can herbicide them. You can control the irrigation. And as those seeds—because celery seeds are a very difficult seed to sprout. It’s not much larger than a large fleck of pepper, and takes a long time to germinate to get any substantial size, and so we would start planting seed in August. But because that seed is so tender, we would oftentimes cover those plants.</p>
<p class="Body">First of all, laid burlap out as soon as you rolled the seed down out on the ground, and let the seed actually germinate under the burlap where it would be cooler and moister. You kept the ground moist with subsurface irrigation, and actually surface irrigation between the beds to keep that environment just right for those little seeds to germinate. And then you would remove the sacks after the green—after the seeds germinated and started to show the first leaves. And we would grow them in the seed bed for about four months, and then we would transplant those plants, pull them up by the root, knock the majority of the dirt off the root, and pack them in boxes, take them to the production field. And we used a New Holland transplanter, which is a fairly simple machine that, as it’s pulled through the field, opens up a furrow, and it has a wheel with a set of fingers on it, and you can put the plants one at a time in the notches in the wheel, and as it goes around and puts the root in that furrow, it releases that plant. And we would have a bank of six of these wheels on the back of a tractor-drawn machine, and go through the field and transplant—we called it “setting”—the celery plants in the field. And from that point, they got immediately irrigated with overhead irrigation so that the ground got packed good[sic] around the roots, and they got a good start. Then it took anywhere from 75 to 90—and if the weather was cold, maybe 100—days to produce that crop. So growing celery’s four months in the seed bed, and three months in the field. It’s a long cycle, especially when you consider that in the off-time you’re having. Someone usually would gather seed from an arid region like Utah or California. Had our seed grown. So between the production of seed and the planting of seed and the growing of the crop, was just about a year-round endeavor. And we did all our harvesting in March, April, May, and June.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Why did you transplant it from the seed bed to the production area? What was the difference between—is it soil?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>No. Well, yes. It did happen to be different soil, but you could take ten acres of seed beds and grow enough plants for 200 acres of field production, and so was much less expensive to take care of that—to do the fungicide, and the weeding, and keeping the insects off of it on ten acres. And then you—when you pull those plants and spread them out where they would get to a large stalk, planted them at the right distance apart, you could have 200 acres of celery out of that. You only had three months to take care of that 200 acres.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Oh, okay, sir. So it was easier to guard and protect them when they were younger that way?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah, much easier, much less expensive to protect them. The transplanting operation was expensive, but it was not nearly as expensive as it would have been trying to put those plants—to put those seeds directly in the field and take care of them the whole seven months it took to grow that. And you could, also when that—the seed beds—that ten acres that that seed bed was on…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris <br /></strong>Mosquito’s trying to—he’s gone. He’s just scouting you out, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>The ten acres that seed beds are on is very—you intensely farm that, and one of the preparations of doing that intense farming—this will keep the mosquitoes out—is that you level that land meticulously. You tried to—you ran a very intricate irrigation system all tile-drained, and you used—your seed bed land was your most prized possession in the celery business. That seed bed—a good seed bed—plot that was the right consistency of soil and the right ability to not only hold moisture, but to get rid of moisture when you had too much rain—to get rid of excessive rainfall—was very important. So celery farmers did a lot of work to try to get their seed bed just perfect and have the right plot of land to do that with.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>So that was pretty common then, between celery farmers?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah. Every celery farmer in the state had their own seed beds. And now seed—most celery seed or a good portion of it—is grown in greenhouses. It’s grown in plant trays—in the trays of plants in greenhouses. So it’s got much more of a controlled environment to grow in now, than when we were growing them outside. But still the best plants are the ones grown outdoors. It’s just a lot tougher, a lot more work.<strong> </strong></p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. Did you ever bleach the plants—whiten them?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>That was a practice that kind of came to an end in the mid-1940s. Until then, yes. They took the boards and put down the sides of celery, at least a portion of it, and they would bleach it. I remember them doing that as a child—I shouldn’t say that. I remember them talking about it, but I don’t actually remember seeing it.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. But why did they do that? I personally don’t understand.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>It was a practice that—I don’t know this for sure—but I think that it allowed celery to be harvested, and stored in root cellars, and carried much longer through the year, than if celery were left green and packed away and stored. You know, a lot of the original celery growers were Upstate New York and Michigan. In the North, when they grew celery, they grew it in the late summer, harvested it, and stored it, and shipped it out little by little during the wintertime. And so people would traditionally take celery, put it in a root cellar back in the—back before refrigeration. And it was very important to try to preserve that as long as you could before so that you had vegetables, and if you stored potatoes, and everything that you harvested in the fall, you stored and ate on it as long as you could. We’re not used to that nowadays. Nowadays you go to a supermarket and they got, you know, just about every vegetable year-round, but that’s just happened in my lifetime. Prior to that and prior to refrigeration in the early part of the 1900s, vegetables were very seasonal. And so you had an excess—you had an abundance at harvest time—you tried to store that as long as you could. And bleached celery would store better than green celery.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>That’s the reason. That’s the long-winded explanation for bleaching. And because it traditionally had been bleached, even after refrigeration came along in the early part of the 1900s, celery was—had always—people were used to eating bleached celery, so that’s the way it was done. That was phased out, and my understanding is that the military, right before World War II, came out with a report that said green celery was better for you than bleached celery—was more nutritious. And that one report was sort of the tipping point. They had been up until then, for the few years before that, they had been growing bleached and unbleached celery, and after that, bleached celery became a thing of the past.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay. Well, thank you, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>All right. That’s the long-winded explanation. It’s kind of like, you know, why did all citrus juice come from a frozen concentrate can a few years ago, and now it’s available in a not-from-concentrate carton in the refrigerated section of the store? It’s sort of the same thing. It’s an evolution of technology and what people are used to. And you can’t—people don’t change their habits overnight. It takes a while.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>All right. Gotcha, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts <br /></strong>But all the celery starting in the late ‘40s then, was not bleached celery.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Did your—so I’m understanding—well, you didn’t grow it that way, but your father and grandfather each did?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Grandfathers definitely did. Yes.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris <br /></strong>Okay. Well, how, you said earlier that one of the stories you remember—hearing them talk about bleaching the celery. Do you remember any other childhood memories popped into your mind? You know, whether’s[sic] it in agriculture or just at school?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, when I was—I do remember my father’s—excuse me—my grandfather’s mules. He had obviously started—mules were used a lot, exclusively in the 1800s, and quite a bit in the early 1900s, because in Oviedo most of this celery farming was grown on muck, and that soft, organic land, the heavy tractors of the day wouldn’t stand up. They’d do fine out here on the sand land, or where they were mostly used in the Midwest, but that muck soil was, you had to have good flotation. And they would even take the mules’ hooves and wrap them in sacks, and tie around the hooves to increase the footprint of the mule so that he wouldn’t bog up as much when he went through the field. And at the end of the day, untied those sacks off the bottom of the mules’ feet. And the next day, if it was still soft and wet out there, they’d retie them. That would keep him from bogging up. He’d only sink three inches instead of sinking eight inches.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>And the mule accepted this.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>The mules accepted it. And you know, back then, if you were going to be a farmer, you had to be able to have a good—you had to know your mules, and be able to train them, and be able to work them. And it was an art to have a good team of mules. So I remember as a kid, the conversation between my dad and my grandfather, where my dad was saying, “What in the world are you doing keeping those mules? You haven’t plowed a field with them in five years now, and we’re not gonna ever use mules again. I don’t know why you’re fooling with them.” And my grandfather saying, “They’re my mules. I can’t just get rid of them.” So until those mules died, which was probably—I was probably six or seven years old—he still had a barn right on the end of Lake Charm at Florida Avenue. Along Florida Avenue there, he had a barn with two mules in it. But I’ve never seen them work the field. I’ve seen pictures. I’ve got pictures of it. In fact, I’ve got pictures of my grandfather with his mule team and his first tractor in the field, and he’s smiling. I think he’s more proud of the mules than he is the tractor.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>He had two mules? Is that like a normal amount, or...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Oh, well, they generally used a mule team. They generally used two mule teams farming here. Now, I have no idea how many total teams he had, but probably, you know, two or three teams of two.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>You said your grandfather had worked the fields. Did your father also work as a farmer?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah. Yes.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>And growing up, did you do the same?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, I worked summers, you know, but—so when school got out in the summer, I’d go work with Dad, and work all summer long at the farm. But my dad always told me that, you know, he wanted me to be whatever I wanted to be. You know, don’t—he didn’t expect me to come back to the farm. If I did, it was going to be my decision. He wanted me to make that decision on my own.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>So as I said, when I went off to college, I went so that I wouldn’t be a farmer, but ended up coming back.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>When you came back, sir, did you work mostly the administrative? Or did you also go back and work the fields as well?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>No, I worked the fields. I mean, you know, times had changed, but we had a crew of tractor drivers and—but I was the farm manager. I oversaw not only decisions on what we were gonna plant and where we were gonna plant it, but when the planting times were gonna be, and how we were gonna try to space the crop out, what personnel we needed for packing, and shipping, and selling.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. Can you tell us how it’s changed over the years, like Oviedo and the areas you’ve lived in? Since you were growing up, I’m assuming there’s been a lot of changes between then and now.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, Oviedo in the 1950s was an agricultural economy. Between the citrus and the vegetables that were grown, the basis for all the economy and all the services here was built around agriculture. That started changing in the late ‘50s, as some of the new equipment that was available had opened up new farming areas in the United States, and competition. For instance, in South Florida, the Belle Glade area opened up, and it was more economical in a lot of ways to grow products down there than it was up here. So, these farms tended to fall on harder times, and the more marginal farms and marginal farmers dropped out, sometimes bought up by other farmers, and sometimes that land was just taken out of production, never to be put in. There was lots of small pockets here in Oviedo that I remember having vegetables in them, that have not have been farmed in thirty years now.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Now, that started occurring the ‘50s, you said, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, late ‘50s.</p>
<p>And with the, you know, two things things happened about the time I started to go to—I graduated from high school and left to go to college. One is [Walt] Disney [World] opened up, and the other is that UCF [University of Central Florida] was established in our backyard here. And Disney really was the beginning of Orlando being a tourist destination. It had been a wintertime destination for a hundred years, almost, but it had not been a year-round tourist destination until [Walt] Disney established Disney World here.</p>
<p class="Body">UCF, being so close to Oviedo, changed Oviedo in that it brought in not only the teachers, professors, but all of the services that a large university requires, and, of course, the students. And so, it makes Oviedo a little bit more of a bedroom community to that college—doesn’t make it—Oviedo’s not the classic college town, but it is definitely a bedroom community to UCF. My perspective, because I left for college and didn’t come back to Oviedo—I lived in Apopka after that to run that farm, and just moved back fairly recently. I lived in Apopka for 35 years, but had lots of interests here. My family was here so I was, you know, monthly I was in Oviedo. And so I could see Oviedo change without being part of that change, you know, sort of being distanced from that change.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris <br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>And really, not easily described, but a very constant growing and getting less and less dependent on agriculture, more and more dependent on the high-tech industries and moderate. You know, medium manufacturing, light manufacturing, and of course, tourism.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>As a farmer, did you see UCF and Disney World as problematic for your business or for your community in Orlando?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>No, no. You know, you don’t try to rail against progress. It is—and you adapt to it. So, our family’s operation adapted as needed to those, and one reason why we closed the Oviedo farms down and just concentrated on our Zellwood operation was because that was the more modern farm of the last part of the 20th century, and the Oviedo farm was the farm of the first half of the 20th century.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. And since then both have farms have been closed down, correct, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yes. We sold our Zellwood farm to the State of Florida as part of a restoration project to clean up Lake Apopka.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay. And that was 1979?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>No. No, we shut that down, sold that in 1998.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris <br /></strong>Oh, okay, sir. And have you been working elsewhere since then, or traveling, or…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah. We had citrus groves, and we expanded those after selling out the vegetable operation, but basically downsized. I said I retired when I sold the vegetable operation, because I work so much less now than I did back then. But I still stay busy and enjoy growing oranges. You know, even the citrus business has evolved. When I was on the outside, I didn’t think the citrus business changed very much in, you know, my whole lifetime. And then once I got involved in it, I realized it is evolving. So it’s an interesting business to be in. I really enjoy it.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>How has it evolved?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, we were, once again, especially around Oviedo, there were lots of small orange groves. You could send a man on a tractor down the road. If your farm was right here, you could send a man out on over to Casselberry or up to Lake Mary on a tractor pulling an implement, have him do work that day, and drive back in the evening to do work on a ten-acre grove. Now, the liability exposure of putting a tractor on the road, you wouldn’t do—you know, you couldn’t make enough money on a ten-acre grove to just cover the liability exposure. So, groves now tend to be large blocks of a hundred acres, 75 to 500 acres. Anything less than that is pretty hard to caretake.</p>
<p class="Body">Irrigation systems—groves weren’t irrigated except by portable aluminum pipe. In real dry times in the spring, you would hook portable irrigation pipe to a pump and irrigate down that row—and for two or three hours—and you would shut the pump down, move that pipe through the grove, and reassemble it, and water another strip. Now everything is micro-jet, where there’s a sprinkler under every row, under every tree, year-round, a permanent micro-sprinkler. The irrigation’s mostly done by a timer and moisture sensors in the ground so that you don’t—nothing’s ever touched once it’s installed out there.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Oh, okay. Because all I ever see of the orange trees, sir, I don’t get to see underneath the ground. I didn’t know what changes had occurred.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>They’ve all got a sprinkler underneath them now.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>And we’re planting much closer than we used to. Trees used to be planted on a 25’ x 25’ spacing. Now, generally, you plant on a 12’ x 24’ spacing, so there’s a lot more trees to the acre, and everything’s worked one way down a row instead of two ways, like they used to do it in a grove. Used to be able to drive down two ways.</p>
<p class="Body">It’s starting to rain. Do you believe that?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>No.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Did you leave your windows down?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>No, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>No. It must be that one random cloud, right there. That’s the one catch about Florida. You never know when it’s gonna rain, even with the sunny skies.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Wow. I’m so surprised at that. I can’t—I wouldn’t have thought it’s gonna rain today, as cool as it was this morning.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>On the plus side, it doesn’t snow randomly.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts <br /></strong>Nah. Well, not very often.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>I think I’ve seen it snow in Florida one time.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris <br /></strong>But the snow disappeared before it hit the ground, and that was in the late ‘80s.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts <br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Have you ever seen it snow in Florida, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah. Yeah, about three different times I’ve seen where snow stayed around.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Really?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah, but not—the Christmas freeze of 1983. Snow stayed in shady spots for two days.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Wow. Would not have expected that from Florida.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>You said you still have the citrus industry as the business. Do you still do cattle, or ...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, the Clonts family never was in the cattle business, but we owned pasture land.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Oh, okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>And so, we’ve never been involved directly in the cattle business, but we know it well because we’ve always had land that we leased to my cousins and to other cattlemen who ran the cows, kept up the fences, and paid their lease for all that.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>So, was a way of having a ranch that was active cow ranch without having to be hands-on day-to-day in the business.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. And I’m assuming that made it a lot easier, then?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Oh, yeah. Basically, you’re just a landowner. In the cow business, we’ve just been a landowner and landlord to the cattlemen.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts <br /></strong>And it’s my mother’s brother, Robert Lee, was very involved in the cattle business all his life, so they leased most of our land.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay, sir. Jumping off subject, you mentioned when you went to college. You were old enough to go to UCF, were you not? Or was UCF ...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>I could’ve gone to UCF, and instead I chose to go to University of South Florida down in Tampa.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Oh, really? I didn’t even realize that university was as old.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yep.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>So you’re a Bulls fan, then?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>That’s right.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>My best friends would love to hear that. I, however, went to Florida State [University].</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Oh, yeah. Well, that’s another good school.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>It’s a good school.</p>
<p class="Body">Are there any particular historical events that come to mind, when you think over the course of your life, sir, that stick out?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Hm. You know, thinking back into my childhood, I remember one that was—and I don’t remember what the year was, probably was about 1961 or ’62—a jet aircraft flying a training mission out at what was then Sanford Naval Training Center [Naval Air Station Sanford], crashed just a few hundred feet from the edge of what is now Lawton Elementary School, but it was the Oviedo High School, which had all twelve grades at that time. And being in class, and hearing that crash, and all the flames and all the confusion afterwards. The pilot died in that crash. You know, one of those things you never forget. But I have forgotten the year. [<em>laughs</em>] So I guess I do forget it.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Oh, okay. But you remember the event though, right, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts <br /></strong>I remember the event.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>What grade were you in at that time?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>It seems like I was in about seventh or eighth grade, something like that. Maybe I was younger than that, because my memory’s still pretty fuzzy. But still it was—I remember the confusion.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>And was it over by the next day? Did you return to classes normally?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Oh, yeah. And, you know, it was the talk of the town for months and months, but things got back to normal fairly quickly—not, you know. Military jets were still, at that time, you know—it was the new technology.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Right.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>So it wasn’t—we heard jets flying, but, you know, you didn’t see that many jets back then.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Unless they crashed right outside your school.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Unless they crashed next to your school.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Then it’s hard to miss them. What kind of relationship did the community have with the military—the base—right there? Especially the farmers.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts <br /></strong>Oh, I think it was a good relationship. You know, Florida was—a lot of people who were in the military during World War II, when they got out, ended up coming back to Florida, because Florida had been such a good place for military bases in the ‘40s. Got the climate where you can train year-round, you know. It’s a whole lot better being stationed on a base in Pensacola than it is in upstate Michigan in the wintertime. So Florida had lots and lots of bases that trained soldiers of all types in the 1940s. As I said, a lot of those people got a taste of Florida, and once they were out of the military, and maybe got married, and—you know, said, “I know where I want to go.” And they moved back to Florida.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Can’t blame them.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Nope. It’s been happening ever since.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>It has, sir. It has. It’s still, I think—it’s still known for its military bases being more preferable to work—train—here. Because you have some of them in Jacksonville, some still down in Tampa.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Sure.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Yeah. Is there anything we haven’t covered, discussed today sir, that you wanted to make sure we got to?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>No, I didn’t have any agenda, and I don’t think I’ve done a very good interview. I think I’ve done a pretty average job at this.</p>
<p class="Body">I remember when fire ants had first gotten into Texas—because fire ants are not native to Florida—and, so fire ants in the mid-‘60s were getting into the state from the coastal states, but they had originally come in in Texas and then spread from there, and the [Douglas] DC-3 airplanes would fly on ant bait over the whole state. They would take a grid of eight miles by eight miles, and they would systematically fly at about three or four hundred feet high, dropping ant bait on a hundred percent of the ground surface.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Ant bait was ...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, the ant bait was to try to kill fire ants that were coming into the state. Obviously was not successful.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Obviously. I didn’t even know they weren’t native to Florida. I just kind of figured they were native everywhere.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>No. [<em>laughs</em>] They seem like it now.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>You know, that’s something that I don’t think you’d see happen today. I mean, there’s new pests now coming into the state of Florida, but at the rate of two or three a year. And you know, we’ve got pythons in the Everglades—that the idea of trying to eradicate an insect like that once it’s got established in the state is probably never going to happen again.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Probably not, sir. Did that cause any kind of panic or worry with the farmers? If they took it seriously enough to be spraying the entire state to try to get out fire ants?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, fire ants had been—fire ants are a pest, but you just learn to live with them. I mean, fire ants can kill a newborn calf if that calf gets born in the field, and the mother cow drops that calf in an ant pile. I mean, fire ants cause damage to livestock right now. They can kill a newborn calf, but that’s not a high rate of mortality, because it doesn’t happen too often, so it’s not something we try to eradicate anymore. But there was a time when there was a very organized war on fire ants.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Who organized this war?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Well, it was at the request of citizens, but it was the government and Ag departments [Department of Agriculture], and so on.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay. When you say fire ants, you’re talking about the red ones? The black ones had already been here, correct? Or did they both come at the same time?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>There’s lots of species of native ants here, some of which bite and some which don’t.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>But the fire ant is the one that, you know, when you step in the mound, you just get swarms of them.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>Right. There’s one in my front yard.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>Yeah. I take those out every time I see one. I get the ant bait out and kill it. But I don’t try to eradicate them all over the state.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>That would be a little extreme, wouldn’t it? But, is there anything else, sir?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts<br /></strong>No.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Morris<br /></strong>All right, sir, this has been invaluable. I really appreciate it. Thank you for letting me come over and talk to you today.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Clonts <br /></strong>You bet. </p>
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