St. Cloud in Osceola County was named for a Paris suburb. It’s just one nugget from the heritage of the “Friendly Soldier City” that the Woman’s Club of St. Cloud works to preserve.
On a day that celebrates fathers and freedom (Father’s Day and Juneteenth), let’s salute a true father of democracy in Central Florida: Gustavus Christopher “Gus” Henderson, who was born in 1862 to enslaved parents.
In a profession in which women remain a minority, pioneering Central Florida architects Ida Annah Ryan and Isabel Roberts blazed a trail in the 1920s that left a legacy of graceful buildings and mysteries, too.