How College Park became Orlando s college town even without a college msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
On June 19, events across Central Florida and the nation will commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, marking not Jan. 1, 1863, the date when Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation became official, but June 19, 1865 the day more than two years later when the news reached Galveston, Texas, and perhaps the nation’s last enslaved people to learn they had been freed.
Disney World at 50: Three trees and their Magic Kingdom roots orlandosentinel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from orlandosentinel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It’s true that Walt Disney World once had its own airport, or rather a STOLport. The name came from “short takeoff and landing,” meaning it was meant for small aircraft. Before the airstrip was constructed, Disney contemplated much bigger plans.
A Futuristic Regional Airport
An old blog from Jim Hill documented that Disney had originally considered building a regional airport on the same site where the Epcot theme park sits today at Disney World.
On May 1, 1969, the Sentinel reported on the plans. At the time, Disney officials said the airport “will be a prototype for general aviation of the future”:
As the annual Florida Strawberry Festival in Plant City gets under way, it's a fine time to remember a classic book about a rural slice of our state in the early 1900s. "Strawberry Girl," which won the prestigious Newbery Medal in 1946, brings the tale of rural Florida to readers.