Slavia Filling Station

Slavia Filling Station

Slavia Filling Station

Slavia (Fla.)

Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.)

Celery

Filling station in Slavia, Florida, in 1929. As of 2013, the building still remains at 1973 West State Road 426. Chase & Company was established in 1884 by brothers Sydney Octavius Chase and Joshua Coffin Chase. The company sold insurance and later invested in storage facilities and fertilizer sales. Chase & Company was known mainly for its agricultural interests and maintained a series of citrus groves throughout Central Florida. The company was based out of Sanford and became one of the city's largest employers into the early twentieth century.

Slavia was established in 1911 when the Slavia Colony Company purchased about 1,200 acres of land west of Oviedo. The earliest settlers of the community came from rural areas in Central Europe who were attracted to Florida's warm climate and rich soil. By the mid-1920s, celery became Slavia's leading cash crop.

Original 3 x 5 inch black and white photograph, March 2, 1929: Chase Collection (MS 14), box 214, folder 15.100, item CC3, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

1929-03-02

Digital reproduction of original 3 x 5 inch black and white photograph, March 2, 1939.

Chase Collection (MS 14), box 214, folder 15.100, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

Celery Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

Folder referenced in Chase Collection finding guide, http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm.

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Slavia Filling Station, Slavia, Florida

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Entire Chase Collection is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.

The displayed collection item is housed at Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. RICHES of Central Florida has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.

Special and Area Studies Collections, University of Florida

Digital Collections (UFDC), University of Florida

Cepero, Laura

Petrik, Robert. "Czechs and Slovaks in Florida." American Czech-Slovak Cultural Club. http://acscc.org/Papers/svu_062703b.html.

SLAVIA
SOFT [?] AND CANDIES
TOBACCO
CIGARS
CIGARETTES

Slavia - Stauks[sic] Mgr
3-2-1929

1 black and white photograph

3 x 5 inch