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   This page is used for providing information for individuals doing research projects as well as a forum for the Society and Museum to request research information from the public.
  
   Suggestions and topics for research projects are solicited.  Contact the Society or the Museum with your ideas.

   The Society is researching the following people who played an important role in the early history of Sanford, Florida.  Any assistance from the descendants of these indivuduals will assist us in completing this important project.  Contact the Museum Curator at CLARKEA@ci.sanford.fl.us/ with any information that you may have.
 

Severin Rapp

Joseph Zapf

Dr. Lindley Moore

Rev. Lyman Phelps

Towns in Orange County in 1889

    The area now known as Seminole County was a part of Orange County until 1913. Elliott's Encyclopedia, published in Jacksonville in l889 had a listing of towns in Orange County with their population and postmaster. The following list is of towns that are now in Seminole County.



Altamonte -12 mi north of Orlando. Population 200. R. S. Fuller, postmaster

Altamonte Springs - 10 mi north of Orlando.

Chuluota -17 mi east of Orlando. 200. C. T. Steever, PM

Clay Springs - 13 mi north of Orlando. 50. M. E. Glover, PM

Forest City - 10 mi north of Orlando. 150. G. N. Cooley, PM

Geneva - 25 mi northeast of Orlando. 250. H. H. Pattishall, PM

Lake Jesup -18 mi northeast of Orlando. 100.

Longwood - l2 mi north of Orlando. 1000. J. N. Searcy, PM

Markham - on Sanford/Lake Eustis RR. 500. G. A. Ginn, PM

Oviedo - 16 mi north of Orlando. l00. Andrew Aulin, PM

Palm Springs - on Wekiva River. 300. Frank W. Baker, PM

Sanford - 2l mi north of Orlando. 3500. C. J. Harris, PM

Sylvan Lake - 27 mi northwest of Orlando. 200. T. E. Wilson, PM

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