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Title
Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts Collection
Alternative Title
FHQ Podcast Collection
Description
The <em>Florida Historical Quarterly </em>is the academic journal published four times per year by the Florida Historical Society in cooperation with the Department of History at the University of Central Florida. Each issue features peer-reviewed articles focusing on a wide variety of topics related to Florida history.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="https://myfloridahistory.org/quarterly" target="_blank"><em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em></a>
Curator
Burke, Mike
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="https://myfloridahistory.org/default" target="_blank">Florida Historical Society</a>
External Reference
"<a href="https://myfloridahistory.org/quarterly" target="_blank">Florida Historical Quarterly</a>." Florida Historical Society. https://myfloridahistory.org/quarterly.
"<a href="http://fhq.cah.ucf.edu" target="_blank">The Florida Historical Quarterly</a>." College of Arts and Humanities, University of Central Florida. http://fhq.cah.ucf.edu.
Sound/Podcast
A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio.
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Title
Florida Historical Quarterly, Episode 20: Vol. 92, No. 3, Winter 2014
Alternative Title
Florida Historical Quarterly, Ep. 20
Subject
Tallahassee (Fla.)
St. Augustine (Fla.)
Catholic Church--Florida
Native Americans
Piracy--United States
Description
This episode features an interview with Dr. Jane Landers, who was the guest editor of the Special Issue of <em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em> that examines 17th-century Florida. This is the second of a six-part special issue that will examine the Quintessential of Ponce De Leon's first visit to Florida.
Type
Sound
Source
Original 18-minute and 43-second audio podcast by Daniel S. Murphree, 2014: <a href="https://myfloridahistory.org/quarterly" target="_blank"><em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em></a>, Florida Historical Society, Cocoa, Florida.
Requires
Multimedia software, such as <a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" target="_blank"> QuickTime</a>.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://myfloridahistory.org/quarterly" target="_blank"><em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em></a>, Florida Historical Society, Cocoa, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/collections/show/184" target="_blank">Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Coverage
Mission San Luis de Apalachee, Tallahassee, Florida
Castillo de San Marcos. St. Augustine, Florida
Creator
Murphree, Daniel S.
Publisher
<a href="https://myfloridahistory.org/quarterly" target="_blank"><em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em></a>
Contributor
Landers Jane
<a href="https://myfloridahistory.org/default" target="_blank">Florida Historical Society</a>
<a href="http://history.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">University of Central Florida, Department of History</a>
Date Created
2014
Date Issued
2014
Date Copyrighted
2014
Format
audio/mp3
Extent
17.1 MB
Medium
18-minute and 43-second audio podcast
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Daniel S. Murphree and published by the <a href="https://myfloridahistory.org/quarterly" target="_blank"><em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em></a>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="https://myfloridahistory.org/default" target="_blank">Florida Historical Society</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="https://myfloridahistory.org/quarterly" target="_blank"><em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em></a>
Curator
Burke, Mike
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="https://myfloridahistory.org/default" target="_blank">Florida Historical Society</a>
External Reference
Landers, Jane. "The Historiography of Seventeenth-Century La Florida." <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69023195" target="_blank"><em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em></a>. 93, no. 3 (2014).
Landers, Jane. "The Geopolitics of Seventeenth-Century Florida." <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69023195" target="_blank"><em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em></a>. 93, no. 3 (2014).
McEwan, Bonnie G. "The Historical Archaeology of Seventeenth-Century La Florida." <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69023195" target="_blank"><em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em></a>. 93, no. 3 (2014).
Turner Bushnell, Amy. "'These people are not conquered like those of New Spain': Florida’s Reciprocal Colonial Compact." <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69023195" target="_blank"><em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em></a>. 93, no. 3 (2014).
Richbourg Parker, Susan. "St. Augustine in the Seventeenth Century: Capital of La Florida." <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69023195" target="_blank"><em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em></a>. 93, no. 3 (2014).
"Pirate, Priest, and Slave: Spanish Florida in the 1668 Searles Raid." <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69023195" target="_blank"><em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em></a>. 93, no. 3 (2014).
McEwan, Bonnie G. "Colonialism on the Spanish Florida Frontier: Mission San Luis, 1656-1704." <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69023195" target="_blank"><em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em></a>. 93, no. 3 (2014).
Nuño, John Paul. "República de Bandidos: Challenges to Emergent Racial Hierarchies in the Florida Borderlands in the Early Nineteenth Century." <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69023195" target="_blank"><em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em></a>. 94, no. 2 (2015): 192-221.
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<a href="https://youtu.be/siUKzlGmTdU" target="_blank">Episode 20: Vol. 92, No. 3, Winter 2014</a>
American Indians
Amerindians
Amy Turner Bushnell
Bonnie G. McEwan
Caribbean Sea
Castillo De San Marco
colonialism
colonials
colonies
colonization
colony
Daniel S. Murphree
declension
FHQ
Florida Historical Quarterly
fortifications
forts
indigenous
Jane Landers
John Davis
Mission San Luis de Apalachee
missionaries
missionary
Native Americans
New Spain
Paul E. Hoffman
piracy
pirates
raiding
Robert Searle
Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholicism
Roman Catholics
San Luis de Talimali
Spain
Spaniards
Spanish Empire
Spanish Florida
Spanish missions
St. Augustine
Susan Richbourg Parker
Tallahassee
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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.
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Title
Oral History of Bette Skates, 2010
Alternative Title
Oral History, Skates
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
Churches--Florida
Description
An oral history of Bette Skates, conducted by Austin Smith on July 14, 2010. As the historian of the Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Sanford, Florida, Skates discusses the history of the church and other churches in Sanford, missionaries at Mellonville and Camp Monroe, the founding of the City of Sanford by Henry Shelton Sanford (1823-1891), and how the church and the city has changed over time. The interview also includes commentary from Alicia Clarke, curator of the Sanford Museum, and Grace Marie Stinecipher (b. 1936), historian of the First Baptist Church of Sanford.
Table Of Contents
0:00:00 Introduction<br />0:01:22 Fire and rebuilding the Holy Cross Episcopal Church<br />0:09:20 First United Methodist Church and the First Baptist Church<br />0:13:31 Missionaries at Mellonville and Camp Monroe<br />0:16:54 Henry Shelton Sanford and the founding of the City of Sanford<br />0:18:34 Other churches in Sanford<br />0:25:00 How the congregation and the community has changed over time<br />0:31:28 Interesting church figures<br />0:34:49 Skates' personal background<br />0:36:49 How Sanford has changed over time<br />0:41:51 Crime in Sanford<br />0:42:27 RECORDINGS CUTS OFF<br />0:42:28 Crime, migrant labor, and desegregation<br />0:48:24 Events in Sanford<br />0:50:07 Closing remarks
Abstract
Oral history interview of Bette Skates. Interview conducted by Austin Smith 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.
Type
Sound
Source
Skates, Bette. Interviewed by Austin Smith. July 14, 2010. <a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>, Sanford, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/" target="_blank">Adobe Flash Player</a>
<a href="http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp" target="_blank">Java</a>
<a href="https://get.adobe.com/reader/" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Is Part Of
<a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>, Sanford, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/43" target="_blank">Sanford Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Coverage
Holy Cross Episcopal Church, Sanford, Florida
First United Methodist Church, Sanford, Florida
First Baptist Church, Sanford, Florida
All Souls Catholic Church Historic Chapel, Sanford, Florida
All Souls Catholic Church, Sanford, Florida's
Belair Grove, Lake Mary, Florida
St. Gertrude's Grove, Sanford Florida
Creator
Skates, Bette
Smith, Austin
Contributor
Clarke, Alicia
Stinecipher, Grace Marie
Date Created
2010-07-14
Date Modified
2014-09-30
Date Copyrighted
2010-07-14
Format
audio/wav
application/pdf
Extent
510 MB
180 KB
Medium
50-minute and 33-second audio recording
22-page typed transcript
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Bette Skates and Austin Smith.
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.sanfordholycrossepiscopal.com/about-us.html" target="_blank">Holy Cross Episcopal Church est. 1873</a>." Holy Cross Episcopal Church. http://www.sanfordholycrossepiscopal.com/about-us.html.
Stinecipher, Grace Marie. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10878290" target="_blank"><em>A History of the First Baptist Church, Sanford, Florida, 1884-1984</em></a>. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1984.
Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53015288" target="_blank"><em>Sanford</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.
Click to View (Movie, Podcast, or Website)
<a href="http://youtu.be/76HKSRgbVcY" target="_blank">Oral History of Bette Skates</a>
Transcript
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>I’ll tell you what, if you would like to do this—I just live up the street, we could go to my house. I’ve got my printer there. Do you want pictures?</p>
<p><strong>Smith</strong> <br /> Yeah. we can get those. That’s something that we don’t even have to get today, that’s something we can get whenever you’d like.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>What I can do is I can copy pictures of the first and second [Holy Cross Episcopal] church and, of course, the picture of the now church for the now thing, which is interesting. The way those buildings evolved tells a lot about the financial business of Sanford too, because during the very lean years nothing was done. But each time the church was destroyed it was replaced within a couple of years. And when you consider that for 19—the first church was built in 1873, and it was destroyed in 1880 and rebuilt. I think 1882 it was consecrated again. So that would be just a couple of years. And there was no money, they couldn’t even afford to hire a priest. If I go too fast, stop me.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>No. No problem. That’s the good thing about this.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>So that was—I’m trying to think. So the rebuilt church from the storm, rebuilt in 1880, in 1923 it burned to the ground—everything that was in it. We saved a few—they saved a few things, and we have records of those things still now in the building.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>Do they know what ‘Caused the fire?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>The fact—they think it was started—I’m trying to be succinct here. In the 1920—late 1800s till the 1920s—they used those buildings for a community center for the whole city of Sanford, because it was the only institution that could do that. There was no YMCA [Young Men’s Christian Association] or that sort of thing. And it was for the young men of Sanford. They came there in those years—let’s see 1918—it would have been the 1900s to 1920. I didn’t say that right, but anyway—they had a—what did they call it? They had a moving picture machine, and they had a bowling alley. They had a library they were going to build on just before the fire. They were getting ready to build a basketball gym. I’m trying to use the words they used but I can’t remember them all, but that never happened. So when the churched burned in 1923, it was a disaster for the whole city because of the way everybody used that facility. They had a moving picture theater, but they also had a[sic] galas and theatrical plays and things like that. They must have been really a hubbub for the city it was neat. So where do I want to go from here?</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>Really just—at that time in 1923, that church that had burned down, that wasn’t located at the present location?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Uh huh. That’s the property that General [Henry Shelton] Sanford gave—probably that whole block—but then he donated the Methodist church property to them. That’s on that same block. And then there were several private homes there, but—what was I going to tell you—how the church burned.</p>
<p>The church was facing Park Avenue like it is now. And right behind it—where our parish hall is now—was a rectory, a two-story building for the priest and his mother. And right behind that was a parish hall, and right beyond that, on Magnolia [Avenue], was a private home. So when the priest—and the description is in the newspaper—a great description. I have copies of that too if you really want to go into detail. The priest said he awoke in the morning and he saw a bright light, and he thought the sun was coming up. And when he looked again, he realized it wasn’t the sun. It was a fire. The church was on fire, or the outbuildings probably first. He got his mother out, tried to save some of his books, but he had a very extensive library in his home and lost most of it. He ran to the church and tried to save his vestments. I don’t know how successful he was at that. The fire department came, but when they put the hoses on the hydrant there was no water pressure.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>Oh, wow.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>So there was nothing they could do. All the buildings burned, including the house that was back there on Magnolia too. The man who lived in the house—Alicia [Clarke], I put your papers underneath—no. Alicia, underneath—right there. I tried to put them someplace where they wouldn’t…</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>Thank you so much. [inaudible]</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>] Yeah. Sorry.</p>
<p>Where was I? Oh, um. So when they, um, couldn’t get any—also the man that owned the house got his water hose out—his garden —and he tried to wet his hose down, he had no water pressure.</p>
<p>So after the smoke cleared and all the finger pointing started, it was determined that it was the City [of Sanford]’s fault, because of the water pressure. The mayor of the city at that time was Forrest Lake, which you’ve heard that name before. After many meetings—and I guess different kinds of haggling with the insurance company and the City—they also had several attorneys in the congregation. That helps. But they had the insurance money, and I think they got something like $30,000 from the City to replace the building. So after all of that, by 1924, they had started work on the new building. And by 1925 they had—I don’t think it was consecrated, because I don’t think it was paid for. I’d have to look that up, but that’s the story of the fire. And of course, that just took out that whole Fourth Street side of Magnolia and Park Avenue—those blocks. Let’s see, what else…</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>And you said it got rebuilt in [19]24?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>‘24. I think actually it was in ‘24—‘25.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>I think it’s raining.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Yeah. It’s going to rain. It’s one thing you can be sure of.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>And then did the church take on all those old roles as a community center and all those things again?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>No. They didn’t, because they didn’t have room at the time. They built the building that’s there now, but they lost all that community that they had with the young men. We didn’t have a parish house until 1926. What’s there now was built in 1926. Of course, it was a matter of money, and keeping a priest too. Because with no money, that was difficult. Those were boom times though back when we got into the later ‘20s, as I recall. So they could finally call a priest and have one that was there. I list—I have a Holy Cross folder and I have a Historical Society folder, so I don’t have that one with me. That was an interesting time, so what’s there now, that takes care of that hunk of Sanford. I mean if you’re going to do one hunk, there you go you’ve got that.</p>
<p>Let me see, what else could we—where could we go with that?</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>When did the—there is Methodist church directly next door…</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Next door to us. It’s First United Methodist Church [of Sanford].</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>And when was that building built?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>It was in the ‘20s. I don’t remember the year exactly.</p>
<p>The First Baptist Church [of Sanford]—Grace Marie [Stinecipher] could tell you exactly when—when the brick building—that was another very old building, but not the—the brick building is the old church, Grace Marie?</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>Yeah?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>When was the Baptist—when was the brick building built?</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>One time in 1914. The other time in 1920.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>1914?</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>Yes. It was built in two parts.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Oh, it was. I didn’t know that. This is Grace Marie Stinecipher. She’s the historian at First Baptist—I was going to say Holy Baptist [<em>laughs</em>]. This is Austin [Smith]. She’s another former teacher.</p>
<p>Go head tell him about the Baptists, because we’ve been talking about that block. Because that’s going to give him a block and he can deal with that whole block. Well, no. The two blocks. I’m sorry you’re not Methodist. You’re Baptist. We’ll have to find a Methodist.</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>It was built under Reverend Harman who was here, and he went off—they built the front part, which was the Sunday school part.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Oh. Those two side parts?</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>The front part of the building is a Sunday school and it has four Sunday school rooms in the back and it has three floors.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Oh. So that’s when the chapel—I mean the auditorium…</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>And then in 1920 they added on the auditorium. He [Harman] went off to war—this is 1914. It may have been finished in ’15. We’re not really sure. And he went off to war as a chaplain, and then came back. And then they built the other part.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>What did they do without a minister? Did they have somebody fill in?</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>The next—was Reverend Brooks the next one that came?</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>No.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>He wasn’t for a while yet.</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>He came in ‘29.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br />‘</strong>Cause they had one minister there that was there for 50 years.</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>No, no, no. 33.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Excuse me. You see, I better stick to what I know. [<em>laughs</em>] Didn’t he live in that house by me for 50 years?</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>Yes—no.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>33?</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>Yeah. I guess so.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>I guess I’m giving out bum information. When was that house built? Do you know?</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>It’s probably in my book, but Alicia can’t find it here.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Grace Marie wrote a book. A real book with covers on it.</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>And I won’t do another one. They keep asking me.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Bring it up to date. That was—well, that house next door was built in 1923, because it was built a year before my house I think.</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>The one—our building?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Your building. The rectory.</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>I’m sure it’s in the book, but I can’t remember.</p>
<p><strong>Skates </strong>Well, I wish I’d bought that book before they got away from us. You know anybody we could borrow one from?</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>I’ve got some at home, but it keeps looking like she lost this one here.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>What’s the title of your book?</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>[<em>A</em>] <em>History of First Baptist Church, Sanford Florida, 1884-1984</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Well, so it was—but you didn’t have a building in [18]84?</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>One was built by the end of the—I think, by at least early 1885. A wooden building.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Was it? ‘Cause if Holy Cross was built in [18]73, we’re only 10 years older than you.</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>You were organized in 1890?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>That first church was built in 1873. Actually, the missionaries down here on Mellonville Avenue when Mellonville was the city of Mellonville was here. That’s another area that might be interesting to you.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>If you can talk about it that would be great.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>I can’t talk about it. I don’t know enough about Mellonville. [<em>laughs</em>] It was just a strip of buildings where the fort was, what is now called Fort Melon, but in those days it was called…</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>Monroe. Camp Monroe.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Monroe. There you go. It was Camp Monroe. And you have to say it that way too, you can’t say “Monroe,” you have to say “Monroe.” [<em>laughs</em>] But we could find information on it that won’t be so bad.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>But Holy Cross was, in addition to being set up by [General] Sanford—also those missionaries from Mellonville that came over.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Yes. The first priest there’s name was Holeman, and he was the “missionary at large” is what they called him. And he also came and started the church along with General Sanford—Henry Sanford. There was another guy too. I can’t think of his name right now. I’ll have to look at my notes at home. I would say the city of Mellonville was probably only about two blocks long—and Alicia could probably tell you more about that than I can.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>Yeah. We have a file on Mellonville. We have a lot about it. That’s a little before Bette’s time though. [<em>laughs</em>]</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Yeah. A little before my time. That was back when the Indians were still…</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>] If someone’s asking you about Mellonville, it’s time you’d died.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>] It’s time I put the cane away and dyed my hair, huh? Oh, dear.</p>
<p>Um, so that was, um—but he was up and down. Those Episcopal—I’m sure the other church too, but I don’t know about those. But the missionaries were sent here from places like Connecticut and New York, and places like that. When they came here they didn’t know whether they were going to get shot by an Indian or eaten by an alligator, or killed by a mosquito bite, because it was a pretty wild place.</p>
<p>I read some of the diocesan records of the Episcopal priests and how they tried to get their little boats across Halifax River with sails on them. Of course, you can’t sail very well on a river. And what they went through—the thunderstorms would come and they’d get down and pull the sail over their heads and sleep in the boat all night. Tales that you read and you think, <em>And they stayed? Why didn’t they all just say “goodbye!”</em> But I guess God was stronger than the weather.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Alright. Let’s see what else—where do we want to go here? I’m trying to think if there’s anything else. But I do think that Holy Cross, and because of Henry Sanford, was instrumental in building the beginnings for Sanford. Henry Sanford also had his orange groves, and that’s what helped the area become agricultural; because of his orange groves. His first orange grove was down on the lakefront over here. He called that Street Gertrude [Grove].</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>Once again, you’re getting off in territory where we can look that up.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Yeah. I’m getting out of my—when I get away from Holy Cross, I’m kind of lost. [<em>laughs</em>] But that was one of his first groves and then he had his big grove—and I guess the one that was really productive—was out at Belair [Grove], which was where Chase Groves [Condominium] housing development is now. That might be an interesting thing for you to—that’s not an old development, but the Chase family had finally died out and they sold all their property, or it’s in the process I guess of being sold. But where Henry Sanford actually put down his citrus grove—Henry Sanford didn’t spend a lot of time in Sanford. He spent a lot of time writing letters telling other people how to do things, but—what else?</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>I’m just trying to figure out where Grace Marie’s book went.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Well, I wish you could find it, because I’d like it…</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>I’d heard her mention it, and we can’t figure out where it went.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>How would you say—the congregation, in those early days—what was the general make-up? Because obviously Sanford himself was Episcopal, but very early on you had a Catholic church in the area, and a Methodist Church in the area.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Yes. And Baptist.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>It seems so soon off even in 18…</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>In the 1880s-90s.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>There were already three or four churches in the area.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>But remember, this is right after the Civil War. So a lot of these people that were coming south were looking to make their fortunes. And I hesitate to call them carpetbaggers, because that’s very unkind. But a lot of men—that’s when [Henry B.] Plant came. That’s when [Henry] Flagler came. So there were a lot of northerners coming down trying to make their fortune.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>May I ask a question? ‘Cause I know the early churches were in Fort Reed and Mellonville—so I know the congregation started there, but is Holy Cross the first Episcopal church?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>The first Episcopal church.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>There wasn’t one in Fort Reed or Mellonville, was there?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>No, but the missionaries were in Mellonville. Reverend Holeman and…</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>So they just didn’t have a church. But before Henry Sanford arrived, there were people from the Episcopal church looking around?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Right. There were missionaries.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>And are any of those churches over around Enterprise or down Altamonte [Springs] earlier?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Near Enterprise—there’s an Episcopal church in Enterprise, and it’s an original. It would be worth the drive over there to see it.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>But were those earlier than over here, because I thought that this was the mother church.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>You know, I don’t remember. It’s the mother church of Central Florida.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>But we don’t necessarily know if it’s the oldest Episcopal congregation.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Well, we don’t know. I don’t think there was one in Fort Reed.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>That’s why I was asking, because the Methodists and the Presbyterians were in Fort Reed. There’s older—there’s a much older—the congregations that are in the big churches on Park Avenue are older than Sanford. Because they started—like our Masonic Lodge started—in Mellonville, so it’s older than Sanford. But that’s why I’ve never thought to ask you. I’d never heard about Episcopalians meeting in a house or anything else anywhere.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>I never heard that either, but they did meet in Mellonville.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>But as far as you know the Sanfords are the ones who started. But when you were looking through Lyman Phelps letters, was there already Episcopalians drifting around looking for a church before Mrs. [Gertrude Dupuy] Sanford started it? Or was she hoping people would become Episcopalians?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Yeah. Well, because so many of their friends from the North, and that’s where the money came from to build the church both times, Mrs. Sanford wrote to her friends in the North…</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>I had never thought about that. When we were going through things—there would have already been some people that she met with and said, “Let’s build a church.” So we don’t know if there was a minister here, or a priest or—when did they come?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>We know that Reverend Holeman was here…</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>Did he come before the church?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Oh, yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>I never thought to ask you that. Was there a congregation before there was a building?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>But he was here, and so was the Bishop of Florida—made some trips with him. And I have some diocesan records of that, which I need to look this up, because I don’t know that.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>I just never thought about it that way. We know some of the congregations—the people—are older than the building we’re looking at, or the city. So depending on what you’re talking about Episcopalians.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Sanford never had anything to do with Holeman and the other guy—I can’t remember his name—coming here. I don’t think.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>I don’t know. That’s why I thought maybe you’d run across that in something. So you’ve never seen anything?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>No.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>There was somebody in your congregation—somebody that was already here—and said to Mrs. Sanford, “We need a church.” Mrs. Sanford thought, <em>We need a church</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Skates</strong>The reason Lyman Phelps came, which was a little bit later than this, was because Sanford asked him to come from Connecticut, but he also—the man also was a botanist and he was an Episcopal priest.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>So there might still be a little mystery as to how exactly they got started with the Episcopal congregation.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Yeah. Well, now you give us something else to think about.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>I know the church, but I never thought about that.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>I never either.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>We spent all this time worrying about church number one, two, and three, but not whether or not there were already some Episcopalians or a priest here who needed a church. I always assumed they didn’t have a church, they didn’t have a congregation.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>They met in Mellonville. I do have—I have seen that line some place. But then why Sanford—I think the Sanfords wanted the—and you tell me if I’m wrong—Henry and his wife were very aristocratic.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>A social thing. Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>I mean, they were really very important people. After being—what was he given? I want to say a legation, but he’s not a legation. He was a…</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>A diplomat.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Well, I don’t see that word as often.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>He was a Minister Resident. Which most people go, “What?”</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>But he was in Belgium for many years. And when he married, he was in his 40s. So when they came here, they were used to living in luxury in this little castle-looking house.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>And for some reason the church is an important thing that was supposed to be here.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>And that also elevated your prestige too. I’m making this up.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>That’s what I’ve assumed from what you’ve found is that this was more than just “Oh, we’re church people.” It’s a social station. “We have to found a church.”</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>Because Episcopalians would have been the…</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>The upper crust. Right. So that’s what I think—I think that’s what he was aiming at. Thinking that this was a big time, but it was not [<em>laughs</em>]. I mean, when you get here and you see the hardships and the way the people lived, he lived very differently. And I’m sure Mrs. Sanford probably didn’t spend 15 minutes in Sanford if she could get a steamboat out. Do you have the Mellonville history there?</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>I was just curious…</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>No. Alright. Okay. Well, I’m rambling. How are you ever going to tie this together?</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>No, no.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>If there’s anything that you all talk about if you just need the founding of a church or something, something comes up, just make a note of it and we can pull the files.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Alright, because I’ll research some of this church business if you want to go further than this.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>Sure. How would you say that the congregation has changed over the years—or even that the community as a whole—has changed over the years.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Well, I think that what we have at Holy Cross today is a middle-aged, and I think this is true of most large churches today—city churches especially. Because you’re not going to have as many young people. Though we do have young people, as many as they probably do out at Street Luke’s Lutheran Church out there by I[nterstate Highway]-4, near Heathrow, or some of those other churches. But it’s a stable church. We’re stable.</p>
<p>It’s a beautiful building if you—if aesthetics helps you worship, then it certainly is lovely and also the Episcopal service is very different from any other church in town. We have the Holy Eucharist every Sunday, a processional, and a beautiful choir and a fantastic organ. It’s very—people say, “Is it a high church?” No. It’s not. Not in Florida. It’s not a high church. It’s a very formal church, but comfortable. It’s—that’s just one person’s opinion.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>How has—I guess the church itself changed over the years, or different things that it has had to go through over the years?</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>You mean the building?</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>Whether the—well aside from having…</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Fires and storms.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>Endured fires and storms, just any particular stories about things within the church or—that would be interesting you think?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Well, right now, I’m working on a memorial for the soldiers from World War II. We have, we found a large plaque with parchment inside of it—it’s not a plaque. It’s a picture with a parchment inside. It’s beautifully illustrated. Where they got this I can’t imagine. Honoring—we had 70 members from Holy Cross that were in World War II. And we—by oral tradition, all the alter furniture that we have right now was donated as a memorial to the World War II veterans. But here’s the catch: we don’t have it in writing. We don’t know that. Nobody knows that for sure, and I’m working on that—running that one down. But I did have the plaque reframed and put acid-free paper in it and everything, so it will be better preserved, and so we’re going to hang that by the pulpit. But we have a lovely—our furniture is wooden. It’s really beautiful. it’s really beautiful furniture.</p>
<p>During the wartime, everything in Sanford was booming. We had the Navy base [Naval Air Station (NAS) Sanford] out here. Did I tell you this before? I just told someone the other day. We had a—oh, I guess Dianna [Dombrowski]. There was a big boom and so we had a large congregation, a lot of the Navy families came to Holy Cross and brought their children. Then when the base closed at the end of World War II, then when [the] Korea[n War] started up, they reactivated the base and so that’s when we had another huge influx. I have pictures of our Sunday school children all lined up all the way down the sidewalk of the church—is how active everyone was. I guess in wartime people do go to church more maybe. I’m not sure [<em>laughs</em>]. So that was—so of course, we had a large congregation, then after Korea, and after they closed the base permanently. Then of course, the congregation fell off, and I think the City of Sanford went through some doldrums there for a while.</p>
<p>The houses in the historic district, which is between First Street and Thirteenth Street from Sanford Avenue to French Avenue—is the historic district, where a lot of those houses were really run-down, but then we got another shot in the arm coming about in the ‘70s-‘80s, where[sic] people started—where[sic] people started buying those old houses and realizing the value in an old house, and it was—it became trendy to buy an old house and renovate it. People coming from Orlando—and they couldn’t afford Winter Park—and Downtown Orlando. They were coming to Sanford where they were much more reasonable. So we had a lot of that at that time.</p>
<p>But Holy Cross has held its—I don’t know what our membership is. I really don’t. I don’t even think I can guess. We have a hundred—maybe a 150—on church each Sunday, but we have many more than that, I’m sure.</p>
<p>That was an interesting period the ‘70s and the ‘80s. The people were coming and buying these old houses, and then we had the [Sanford] Historic Trust—now that’s another interesting group that might give you some insights. I don’t belong to the Trust, but they have a very active membership and they—I think they’ve done a lot toward getting people to repair their old homes, and of course, they set up a few little rules and regulations that nobody likes, but you know that’s the way it is with that sort of thing. Um, I don’t know. You’ll have to ask me a question. I’m kind of…</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>No problem. Are there any—would you say, big personalities, that you can think of, that have been connected with the church that maybe there are some interesting stories about?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Some interesting person from the church [<em>laughs</em>]. The only interesting person I think about in Bishop Whipple. [<em>laughs</em>] But he wasn’t from Florida.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>What about somebody from within your memory?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Well, I don’t know…</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>You spend too much time before your memory.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>I’m just lost in history.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>Yeah, but about things that you remember.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>In my life—I’m trying to—we’ve had a lot of very interesting people…</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>I guess the question was: who was[sic] the interesting people?</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>Just some interesting personalities.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>I—the church—I mean you’ve got the Chase family.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Well, the Chase family obviously. I guess we should.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>He doesn’t know that.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Well, he doesn’t know that [<em>laughs</em>]. The Chase family—actually Alicia’s the history…</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>No. No, it’s—the thing is: from an outside observer—from when you’ve talked about in—I mean, it’s probably oversimplifying to say that they were sort of the aristocratic. But it does tend to be the Sanfords built the church, and then were they [the Chase family] —the major benefactors afterward?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Well, what happened over the years was…</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>What was their role in the church in your lifetime? Who were the major benefactors? Or the major players in the church?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>I think any time anything was needed for the church, they went to the Chase family.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>That’s something I always found interesting. Before your time it would have been the Sanfords, but…</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>See, when Henry Sanford died, his wife was trying to get some money to live on, because she didn’t have much, because he was pretty free with his money. But finally his son ended up selling Chase his—Henry Sanford’s—grove, Belair, to the Chase family for $5,000—500? Oh, that’s an interesting story.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>That’s another story.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>The Chase brothers [Sydney Octavius Chase, Sr. and Joshua Coffin Chase] came from—where did they come from?</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>That’s another story.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>I’m back. I’m out of my element again.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>Well, what do you know about them?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>The first group of Chases, then second group. I know the second group, because Julia Chase was the last one that died that was living out there at Belair. But she was just the Grand Dam. She was just lovely. Just one of those women that, when you look at her you, just know that she’s not just anybody.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>Mrs. Randall [Chase, Sr.].</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Yes. Mrs. Randall Chase, and she was a lovely lady, but—and her family—none of her children live here, so we don’t have a Chase in our church. But when Julia died a few years ago, she had her son who was a priest, he did the…</p>
<p><strong>Stinecipher<br /></strong>Randall [Chase, Jr.].</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Randall. Yeah. See these people I’m not that familiar with them, because I haven’t—wasn’t there when they were there. Then she has a daughter who’s also involved in the Episcopal church up—someplace up north. Was it just the two children?</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>No. There’s three. There’s Josh [Chase], Ran [Chase], and Laura [Chase]. You didn’t know any of them.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>I didn’t know any of them, no. I’ve met the daughter several times when she’s been at church, but…</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>Who were the leaders of the altar guild and things like? What groups were you in? I don’t mean to ask questions for Austin, but I think you’re thinking so much in your historian hat. You’re not thinking that you’ve been in the church…</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>39 years. Well, since 1969. Whatever that is.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>So you didn’t grow up in that church.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>But I didn’t grow up in that church. No. I’m not a cradle Episcopalian, and you know that is not a good thing.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>That is news to me. I did not know that.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>No. I am not.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>What church did you defect from?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>I grew up in a Lutheran church.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>Oh.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>I was confirmed in a Lutheran church.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>Here?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>No. In Philadelphia, before we moved to Florida.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>Oh, so that’s why you know…</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>So you only know about the past 39 years.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Yeah. Yeah. So that’s what I can—that’s what I can tell you about. And the history…</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>So you know about 120 years ago and 39 years ago, but nothing in between.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>But the in-between—I’m sort of—well, actually, I was very busy I was trying to get my education and trying to raise four children, so those are lost years.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>No. I understand that.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>But you’ve been living on Park Avenue…</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>I’ve lived in the same house for 53 years on Park Avenue.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>That’s part of what I thought was interesting about Bette. She’s been living downtown. You’re talking about how downtown’s changed. You live in basically walking distance from the church.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>I always thought that I would walk to church. I never have.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>And you’ve lived down there as downtown went downhill, and came back up again. That’s why I was thinking—she’s lived in the same house all this time, right in the middle of downtown. You’re not in the historic district though, are you?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>You are?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>It’s to 13th Street.</p>
<p><strong>Clarke<br /></strong>So she’s been in the historic district before it was there.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>And also Park Avenue used to be [U.S. Route] 17-92. I think I told you that before, and that was the main street of the town. I don’t know what year it was switched over to French Avenue. And then after French Avenue, they moved—well, 17-92 still is French Avenue, you still have to go around. I’m sorry I have these gaps.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>No problem. In your time as someone just living in the—so close to downtown—so close to the church—I don’t know if you went into this a lot in the last interview, but how has the area around you, that you’ve seen, changed?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>It has, because the houses, at least—if you drive up and down those streets of the historic district, basically every house has been occupied and renovated and sold, and occupied and renovated. I mean, there’s a lot of that that’s gone on. It’s interesting to—and I don’t do it on purpose, but sometimes I find myself over on Myrtle [Street] or Elm [Avenue], which are the streets between Park and French Avenue, and I’m always kind of amazed, I think, <em>Oh my gosh! Somebody’s fixed that house up</em>. They’ve done a lot of in filling in Sanford, which is interesting. Lots that were vacant—they built houses on those lots, and the houses look a lot like my house, or other, you know, houses that are already there. So they’ve done a good job. There’s only one house in that district that I could show you that is not of era of the [19]20s-‘30s, even ‘40s. It’s—somebody was doing something in the ‘60s that it’s just one of those real modernistic looking buildings.</p>
<p>But—it’s changed, and Sanford probably right now is in a very good place I think, because they have so many of the younger crowd. I don’t really think—I don’t know this to be true—I don’t think we have a lot of churched people in this area. We have the old [All Souls] Catholic Church is right there on Ninth [Street] and Oak [Avenue], but the Catholic school is there. Now they moved the Catholic—they have services now on First Street. It’s the big church. You’ve probably seen out on First Street—a big Spanish church. But the old church there was built early on. Not as early as Holy Cross, but early. Actually, it’s a replacement too, because their first church burned. Because I know when our church burned, they gave us stuff, and when their church burned we gave them stuff, because we have some letters saying thank you for different things we gave them. But then they built the Catholic school over there, which has been a real boon to that church I think. It’s at capacity, I’m sure. It only goes to seventh or eighth grade, then they have to go to Bishop Moore [Catholic High School] in Orlando. But eventually, on their property on [Florida State Road] 46, they’re going to build a whole new church—I mean a whole new school and high school and everything. With the economy with the way it is, who knows when that will happen.</p>
<p>We have a convenience store in my neighborhood and my friends—and they’re used to be two or three houses on that property—my friends will say to me, “Bette, how did you let that happen?” I’ll say, “Y’all, I was busy.” When you’re raising a family and doing all those things—I wasn’t out there standing with my picket sign saying, “Down with 7-Eleven.” It was a 7-Eleven. It’s not anymore. Now it’s something—I don’t know what. But, so now they’ve got two filling stations on the corner of Thirteenth Street, which used to be filling stations, and then the convenience store, which is across the street down one block from me, which is not desirable. But since I didn’t get out there and picket them, I don’t know what I can do now. But that’s a danger in a neighborhood of letting those types of buildings in, because that does ruin the family atmosphere of the area. Now, that’s not being snobbish, I’m not saying that, because, you know—it’s[sic] just doesn’t belong there. If that had been a little small grocery store or something maybe—maybe, I’m not even sure about that. But once you bring that element in, then you’ve got a lot of trash and things. But it’s not like that—I mean, it was like that at a time. Every morning, I used to go out and, on my way to school, I would go and pick up the cups, and the paper, and stuff out on my front yard, but I don’t have that anymore, because they seem to be—I don’t know why not, but it’s just not. But that’s not good for a neighborhood.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>One thing that I’ve heard about Sanford—and some people say that it continues on even today—is that there is a high crime rate in the area, or at least in the past 5-10 years, there had been a much higher crime rate. And that’s the picture—at least certainly as someone that lives over in Orlando and only hears about Sanford—that’s the picture that’s painted.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Yeah. And that’s, you know—let me give you my theory on that. And now I have to go back a little bit. [<em>phone rings</em>] I have a new granddaughter and I have to answer my—excuse me.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>No problem. I can put this on pause.</p>
<p>The crime rate in the area and your theory on that.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Well, for one thing it annoys me that that’s Sanford’s reputation, because that’s not fair. Because Orlando has its areas that are just as bad. It just doesn’t seem to get as much publicity as Sanford does.</p>
<p>Here’s my theory, Sanford—when Henry Sanford—I wonder what my doodles mean. I’ll stop it. When Henry Sanford came here, this was going to be the thriving metropolis—the “Gateway to South Florida. I’m sure he envisioned all kinds of buildings and everybody coming to these stores and buying things and then moving on down south, which for a while it was like that. Of course, a lot of this has to do with fluctuations in the country’s economics too. Seems like things, you know, are up or down—are up or down.</p>
<p>The agriculture—citrus was great, but when the citrus was frozen out in 1895 and ‘96—the two back-to-back freezes—and just ruined the citrus crops. And when you’ve got those trees that will have to be taken out and replaced—that was after General Sanford’s time anyway. I think he died in ‘91. So there really wasn’t anything to do, so they started plowing up the fields and we have people in this organization [Sanford Historical Society] that are great on the celery. They started planting celery. Well, so when you get “dirt crops”—I’ll call them, ‘cause I don’t know what else you would call them—when you get crops like celery and cabbage, which is what they grew a lot of those type of crops, you have to have workers. Where do you get the workers? From someplace else, because they didn’t have—well of course, General Sanford had imported his Swedish people, but they weren’t going to do that type of work. So they got a lot of blacks coming down after the Civil War, they got people that would want to do that kind of work. When that happened, it became a migrant thing. The workers work in Sanford all through the harvest season. They would go to Upstate New York to Sodus and Syracuse, and they’d have their—well kind of like—you see the pictures of the people going west. Their cars loaded down and their children—going up north to work the fields up there. So when you have all those migrant workers, they’re not getting paid much of a wage. They don’t have a decent place to live. So areas grew up around Sanford that kind of—I mean the people were poverty-stricken. They—so when you think of poverty, you think of crime as going hand-in-hand.</p>
<p>That’s my theory of the reason that we have that and of course, with integration—or I should say with desegregation—it takes time. You can’t say, “Okay. Fine. You can come to my school today and we’ll make you well.” It doesn’t happen that fast. I mean, they’ve got to work the same years that everybody else does. So I think a lot of that was—this is just my theory. I haven’t read this in a book. I feel bad about it, because you feel guilty, because the people who are so distressed. But then you also feel sad that the whole city is tainted with the brush of holding people down, and so they’re angry and so what are they going to do? It’s—I don’t know. Does that work [<em>laughs</em>]? I just—it’s a sad story actually, I think, and it makes me feel bad. And I think when the first child was integrated in the school where my children went to school—her father was a local dentist—a black dentist. Mother—lovely people. And this one little black girl in this whole school of white children—God bless her. She turned out to be a teacher, and she’s done very well for herself, and her mother and father were wonderful people. What she suffered, I don’t know. I’ve never talked to her, but it’d be interesting to know her story. I’d like to think that she didn’t suffer, but then—I don’t know.</p>
<p>So I think that when you look at the part—and also when you take and you build like these developments, these housing projects—you’re lumping all these people that are unhappy together. And you’re supposed to be taking care of the houses. Well, sometimes the city, or whoever was in charge—like right now they’re having a big brouhaha about the upkeep of some of the project homes, so you can see what you—but Orlando has the same thing. I imagine every city has the same thing. Maybe Sanford is just more noticeable, because it’s a small town. We have a large population of blacks, but for the most part—at least the people I know—they’re educated. They’re trying to improve their families just like we are. So that’s kind of a sad tale, but that’s just what I think. I’m not sure what the question was [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>Well, I guess then are there any other types of events, either connected to the church or just things that you’ve—and they’ve probably asked you this as well in the last interview, but any types of events—whether connected to the church or not that you experienced—that you remember as big events that stood out in the community or even for yourself?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Sanford has a lovely Christmas tour of homes and Holy Cross has been on the tour many years. The people open their homes to the—this is, I think, the first week in December, which is interesting and it’s nice to go through those—the old homes, the renovated homes—but it’s usually Downtown Sanford in the historic district . So that’s always a big thing Sanford has every—well, one Thursday a month, they have Thursday Night Alive. I have only been to two of them, because I just can’t do the walking, but they have wonderful food and drinks and dancing and all kinds of things in the street downtown. It’s a very nice thing. It’d be a nice place to bring a date or something on—I think it’s the third Thursday. Every month they close off the streets, and I think you pay one fee—like five or seven dollars—and then you go around and taste everything.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>Did they do that last week?</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Yeah. They did that last week.</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>Because I was down here and they had some streets closed off and I was wondering what was going on.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>Yeah. That’s what it is. Was that the third Thursday?</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>I don’t know.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>I don’t know what day it is. But anyway, can you think of anything else, I can’t think of anything that’s too earthshaking. Nothing. We don’t have any Disney-type characters running around on the loose or anything. [<em>laughs</em>]</p>
<p><strong>Smith<br /></strong>Alright.</p>
<p><strong>Skates<br /></strong>It’s very nice. No—it’s something to come over and take a look at.</p>
A History of the First Baptist Church, Sanford, Florida, 1884-1984
agriculture
Alicia Clarke
Austin Smith
Baptist Church
Belair Grove
Bette Skates
Brooks
Camp Monroe
celery
Chase and Company
Chase Groves Condominium
Christmas
church
churches
citrus
citrus groves
City of Sanford
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crime rates
crimes
desegregation
Downtown Sanford
enterprises
Episcopal Church
fires
First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church of Sanford
First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church of Sanford
Florida State Road 46
Forrest Lake
Fort Mellon
Fort Reed
Fourth Street
French Avenue
Gateway to South Florida
Gertrude Dupuy
Gertrude Dupuy Sanford
Grace Marie Stinecipher
Halifax River
Harman
Henry B. Plant
Henry Bradley Plant
Henry Flagler
Henry Morrison Flagler
Henry Shelton Sanford
Holeman
Holy Cross Episcopal Church
hurricanes
integration
Josh Chase
Joshua Coffin Chase
Julia Chase
Korean War
Lake Mary
Laura Chase
Lyman Phelps
Mellonville
memorials
Methodist church
migrant labor
migrant workers
missionaries
missionary
Museum of Seminole County History
NAS Sanford
Naval Air Station Sanford
orange groves
race relations
Ran Chase
Randall Chase, Jr.
Randall Chase, Sr.
Sanford
St. Gertrude Grove
Sydney Octavius Chase, Sr.
Thursday Night Alive
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World War II
WWII
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A History of Central Florida Collection
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History of Central Florida Collection
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Podcasts
Documentaries
Description
A History of Central Florida Podcast series explores Central Florida's history through the artifacts found in local area museums and historical societies.
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<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries</a>
Cassanello, Robert
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<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/70" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
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eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Altoona, Florida
Astor, Florida
Brevard County, Florida
Bushnell, Florida
Clermont, Florida
Cocoa Beach, Florida
Daytona Beach, Florida
DeLand, Florida
Disston City, Florida
Fort King, Florida
Geneva, Florida
Goldenrod, Florida
Groveland, Florida
Holly Hill, Florida
Hontoon Island, DeLand, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Kissimmee, Florida
Lake Apopka, Florida
Lake County, Florida
Lake Mary, Florida
Marion County, Florida
Merritt Island, Florida
Miami, Florida
Mims, Florida
Mount Dora, Florida
Newnans Lake, Gainesville, Florida
New Smyrna, Florida
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Ocala, Florida
Ocklawaha River, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Ormond Beach, Florida
Osceola County, Florida
Sanford, Florida
Silver Springs, Florida
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Cloud, Florida
St. Johns River, Florida
St. Petersburg, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Tavares, Florida
Weirsdale, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Park, Florida
Ybor City, Tampa, Florida
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<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>
Contributing Project
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries</a>
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"<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php.
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1 video podcast
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13 minutes and 9 seconds
Producer
Cassanello, Robert
Director
Bethany, Dickens
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Title
A History of Central Florida, Episode 32: Tapestries
Alternative Title
Tapestries Podcast
Subject
New Smyrna Beach (Fla.)
Great Depression, 1929-1939
New Deal, 1933-1939--Florida
Embroidery--United States
Description
Episode 32 of A History of Central Florida Podcast: Tapestries. A History of Central Florida Podcast series explores Central Florida's history through the artifacts found in local area museums and historical societies. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners.<br /><br />Episode 32 features a discussion of New Deal-era tapestries displayed at the New Smyrna Museum of History in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. This podcast also includes interviews with Dr. Susan Ware, author Nick Taylor, and Dr. Nick Wynne of the Florida Historical Society.
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Moving Image
Source
Original 13-minute and 9-second podcast by Bethany Dickens, 2014: "A History of Central Florida, Episode 32: Tapestries." <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">A History of Central Florida</a>, Orlando, Florida.
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<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">A History of Central Florida</a>, Orlando, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/137" target="_blank">A History of Central Florida Collection</a>, RICHES Podcast Documentaries Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Coverage
New Smyrna Museum of History, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Miami, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
St. Petersburg, Florida
Creator
Bethany, Dickens
Publisher
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>
Contributor
Ware, Susan
Taylor, Nick
Wynne, Nick
Cassanello, Robert
Clarke, Bob
Ford, Chip
Gibson, Ella
Hazen, Kendra
Kelley, Katie
Velásquez, Daniel
<a href="http://www.nsbhistory.org/" target="_blank">New Smyrna Museum of History</a>
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/" target="_blank">Library of Congress</a>
<a href="http://www.floridamemory.com/" target="_blank">Florida Memory Project</a>
Date Created
ca. 2014-11-17
Date Issued
2014-11-17
Date Copyrighted
2014-11-17
Format
video/mp4
Medium
13-minute and 9-second podcast
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Economics Teacher
Humanities Teacher
Virtual Arts Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Bethany Dickens and published by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>.
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<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>
Accrual Method
Item Creation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/podcastsblog.php" target="_blank">A History of Central Florida</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/4571" target="_blank">Episode 32: Tapestries</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/4571.
Ware, Susan. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6889496" target="_blank"><em>Beyond Suffrage, Women in the New Deal</em></a>. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Taylor, Nick. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/170057676" target="_blank"><em>American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work</em></a>. New York: Bantam Book, 2008.
Wynne, Nick, and Joe Knetsch. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/814373323" target="_blank"><em>Florida in the Great Depression: Desperation and Defiance</em></a>. 2012.
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109 MB
A History of Central Florida
American Civil War
Bethany Dickens
Bob Clarke
Chip Ford
Civil War
Cora S. Wilson
Daniel Velásquez
Division of Women's and Professional Projects
Dorothy Morton
Ella Gibson
embroidery
Federal Emergency Relief Act
FERA
Florida Historical Society
Franciscan Missions
Franciscans
gender
Great Depression
Harry Hopkins
Jacksonville
Katie Kelley
Kendra Hazen
labor
Miami
missionaries
missions
Native Americans
New Deal
New Smyrna Beach
New Smyrna Museum of history
Nick Taylor
Nick Wynne
OCRHC
Orange County Regional History Center
orlando
Osborne, Georgia
Rio De La Cruz
Robert Cassanello
Seminole Wars
sewing
sewing rooms
Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce
St. Petersburg
Susan Ware
Tampa
tapestry
Turnbull Colony
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women
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Works Progress Administration Women's Training Work Centers
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Title
Hotel Forrest Lake Collection
Description
Originally named after the Sanford Mayor and president of Seminole County Bank, the Forrest Lake Hotel has also been known as the Mayfair Inn and was briefly occupied by the Sanford Naval Academy. In 1916, construction of the building began. Local architect Elton J. Moughton designed the hotel. In 1925, Hotel Forrest Lake opened and became a popular destination for tourists visiting Sanford.
By 1929, the hotel closed after the stock market crash and the downfall of Florida's tourism and real estate boom. William E. Kirchhoff leased the building in 1934 and the hotel reopened in 1935 with the new name Mayfair Hotel. Under Kirchhoff's ownership, the Mayfair Hotel became known as one of the finest hotels in the South.
Kirchhoff sold the hotel in 1948 to Horace Stoneham, owner of the New York Giants. Stoneham then sold the building to the Bernard McFadden Foundation, who later sold it to the New Tribes Mission. The New Tribes Mission's goal is to reach tribes who have no access to the Gospel through translated publications and missionary work.
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="http://usa.ntm.org/" target="_blank">New Tribes Mission</a> Headquarters
<a href="http://www.sanfordfl.gov/index.aspx?page=456" target="_blank">Sanford Museum</a>
<a href="http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/" target="_blank">State Library and Archives of Florida</a>
<a href="http://www.usf.edu/" target="_blank">University of South Florida</a>
Alternative Title
Forrest Lake Hotel Collection
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
Hotels--Florida
Tourism--Florida
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/16" target="_blank">Sanford Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Forrest Lake Hotel, Sanford, Florida
Mayfair Inn, Sanford, Florida
Mayfair Hotel, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Naval Academy, Sanford, Florida
New Tribes Mission, Sanford, Florida
Curator
Marra, Katherine
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
Sanford Historic Preservation Board. "<a href="http://sanfordhistory.tripod.com/Links/wtour.pdf" target="_blank">The Sanford Historic Preservation Board Presents the Sanford Historic Downtown Walking Tour</a>." http://sanfordhistory.tripod.com/Links/wtour.pdf.
<span>Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). <a title="Sanford" href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53015288" target="_blank"><em>Sanford</em></a></span><span>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.</span>
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1 brochure
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Title
1000 East First Street, New Tribes Mission
Alternative Title
New Tribes Mission History
Subject
Religious Organizations--United States
Charities--Florida
New Tribes Mission
Missions--Florida
Sanford (Fla.)
Description
Excerpt from tour brochure of historical buildings in Sanford, Florida. This excerpt features the New Tribes Mission Headquarters, located at 1000 East First Street. Originally named after the Sanford Mayor and president of Seminole County Bank, construction of the Forrest Lake Hotel began in 1916. Local architect Elton J. Moughton designed the hotel. In 1925, Hotel Forrest Lake opened and became a popular destination for tourists visiting Sanford. By 1929, the hotel closed after the stock market crash and the downfall of Florida's tourism and real estate boom. William E. Kirchhoff leased the building in 1934 and the hotel reopened in 1935 with the new name Mayfair Hotel. Under Kirchhoff's ownership, the Mayfair Hotel became known as one of the finest hotels in the South. Kirchhoff sold the hotel in 1948 to Horace Stoneham, owner of the New York Giants. Stoneham then sold the building to the Bernard McFadden Foundation. After the Naval Air Station Sanford acquired $1.3 million to fund the construction of a naval academy in 1963, the Foundation made significant alterations to the building to house students from the Sanford Naval Academy. The Foundation later sold the building to the New Tribes Mission in 1977. The New Tribes Mission's goal is to reach tribes who have no access to the Gospel through translated publications and missionary work.
Source
Original brochure published by the <a href="http://www.sanfordhistorictrust.org/" target="_blank">Sanford Historic Trust</a>, 2008: "Holiday Tour of Homes 2008."
Publisher
<a href="http://www.sanfordhistorictrust.org/" target="_blank">Sanford Historic Trust</a>
Date Created
2008
Is Part Of
New Tribes Mission Collection, <a href="http://www.sanfordfl.gov/index.aspx?page=456" target="_blank">Sanford Museum</a>, Sanford, 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.
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Format
image/jpeg
Extent
994 KB
Medium
1 brochure
Language
eng
Type
Text
Coverage
Sanford, Florida
Spatial Coverage
28.811748, -81.257222
Temporal Coverage
1925-01-01/2008-12-31
Accrual Method
Donation
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.sanfordhistorictrust.org/" target="_blank">Sanford Historic Trust</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.sanfordfl.gov/index.aspx?page=456" target="_blank">Sanford Museum</a>
External Reference
Sanford Historic Preservation Board. "The Sanford Historic Preservation Board Presents the Sanford Historic Downtown Walking Tour." http://sanfordhistory.tripod.com/Links/wtour.pdf.
Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). <em>Sanford</em>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.
“Our Heritage.” New Tribes Mission. http://usa.ntm.org/our-heritage.
External Reference Title
"<a href="http://sanfordhistory.tripod.com/Links/wtour.pdf" target="_blank">Hotel Forrest Lake - 1925</a>"
<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53015288" target="_blank"><em>Sanford</em></a>
"<a href="http://usa.ntm.org/our-heritage" target="_blank"> Our Heritage </a>"
Transcript
Day Tour of Homes
1. 1000 East First Street
New Tribes Mission
Parking and access is from Seminole Blvd.
Entrance is through the front entrance on First St.
This 1925 Mediterranean-style building today serves as the missionary group's U.S. headquarters and employee residence. Sanford architect Elton Moughton designed the structure that flourished as the Forrest Lake Hotel until the Depression. In 1930 it was renamed the Mayfair and became the centerpiece of the city's social and cultural life. The New York Giants baseball team bought the property in 1947 and it became the destination of many notables such as Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Al Capone. The Sanford Naval Academy, a private boarding school, used the building until it closed in 1976. For the past 30 years, the structure has been occupied by the current owners, a nondenominational group that spreads the Gospel to isolated people.
A stand out from last year, the New Tribes Mission again hosts in their grand ballroom, the Trust's TableScapes, a festive abundance of 12-15 individual tables all decked out for that one special day of the year. Decorated by local designers, merchants and artists designed to unleash your imagination for setting your own Holiday Table.
Enjoy refreshments, music and be sure to vote for the "People's Choice Awards!" Rest Rooms are Available.
Holiday Tour of Homes 2008
Has Format
Photocopy of original brochure published by the <a href="http://www.sanfordhistorictrust.org/" target="_blank">Sanford Historic Trust</a>: "Holiday Tour of Homes 2008": <a href="http://www.sanfordfl.gov/index.aspx?page=456" target="_blank">Sanford Museum</a>, Sanford, Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reprodiction of photocopied brochure published by the <a href="http://www.sanfordhistorictrust.org/" target="_blank">Sanford Historic Trust</a>: "Holiday Tour of Homes 2008."
Audience Education Level
SS.K.A.1.1; SS.K.A.3.1; SS.1.A.2.2SS.1.A.3.1; SS.1.A.3.2; SS.3.G.2.6; SS.2.A.1.1; SS.2.A.3.1; SS.3.A.1.1; SS.3.G.1.1; SS.4.A.1.1; SS.4.A.7.1; SS.4.A.7.2; SS.4.E.1.1; SS.4.E.1.2; SS.5.G.1.4; SS.6.W.1.1; SS.6.W.1.3; SS.7.E.2.4; SS.8.E.2.1; SS.8.A.1.2; SS.8.A.1.5; SS.912.A.1.2; SS.912.A.1.3; SS.912.A.5.4; SS.912.A.5.6; SS.912.A.5.11; SS.912.A.5.12; SS.912.A.6.15; SS.912.A.7.1; SS.912.A.7.14; SS.912.A.7.17; SS.912.G.1.2; SS.912.G.1.4; SS.912.W.1.1; SS.912.W.1.3
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Geography Teacher
Provenance
Originally published by <a href="http://www.sanfordhistorictrust.org/" target="_blank">Sanford Historic Trust</a>.
1st Street
Capone, Al
charity
DiMaggio, Joe
First St.
First Street
Forrest Lake Hotel
Giants
gospel
Holiday Table
Mayfair
Mayfair Hotel
Mayfair Inn
missionaries
Monroe, Marilyn
Moughton, Elton J.
New Tribes Mission
New York Giants
nondenominational
NY Giants
People's Choice Awards
Sanford Naval Academy
Seminole Blvd.
Seminole Boulevard
tour
Trust's TableScapes