Belair Lodge

Belair Lodge

Belair Lodge

Lake Mary (Fla.)

Sanford, Henry S. (Henry Shelton), 1823-1891

Lodging-houses--United States

Houses

The Belair home of Henry Sanford and family sometime before 1925. In 1870, Henry Shelton Sanford purchased 23 square acres of land known as the Sanford Grant. The acreage included an experiment station called Belair located just three miles southwest of the city named after Sanford. By 1889, Sanford extended his land purchase to 145 acres and contained mainly orange and lemon trees. In Belair alone, Sanford introduced over 140 varieties of citrus plants. All were tested to determine if Florida citrus growers could introduce new varieties into the growing citrus market. Sanford also grew exotic plants acquired from Central and South America, many of which survived the 1886 freeze. Sanford mainly used Belair as his own experiment station, but ultimately the findings and reports would be used by other citrus growers throughout Florida. Eventually, Sanford handed over the operations of Belair to Sydney and Joshua Chase. By 1912, the brothers established the Chase Investment Company. The lodge located at Belair was built in 1888 and was destroyed in a fire in 1925.

Written on back of photograph, "Belair Lodge. Destroyed by fire in 1925. Built 1888."

Chase & Company

Original black and white photograph by Chase & Company: Chase Collection (MS 14), box 211, folder 3.3A, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

ca. 1888-1925

Digital reproduction of original black and white photograph by Chase & Company.

Chase Collection (MS 14), box 211, folder 3.3A, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

Belair Collection, Citrus 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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Lake Mary, Florida

28.779371, -81.301996

1888-01-01/1925-12-31

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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

Marra, Katherine

University of Florida, Special and Area Studies Collections

Westgate, Philip J., and R. Bruce Ledin. "Belair Groves, Sanford, Pioneer in Sub-Tropical Horticultural Introductions." Florida State Horticultural Society 66 (1953): 184-187.

Some Account of Belair, Also of the City of Sanford Florida, With a Brief Sketch of Their Founder. Sanford, Florida: 1889.

Fry, Joseph A. Henry S. Sanford: Diplomacy and Business in Nineteenth-Century America. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1982.

Molloy, Leo T. Henry Shelton Sanford (1823-1891). Derby, CT: Valley Historical Research Committee, 2009.

Sanford Historical Society, Inc. Images of America: Sanford. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2003.

"Belair Groves, Sanford, Pioneer in Sub-Tropical Horticultural Introductions"

"Bellair" near Sanford Fla.

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