Florida History

The Ku Klux Klan is notorious for lynchings and bigotry, but their influence via terror was not confined by that space alone.

For years historians have debated the location of the fabled landmark where Seminoles gathered. Let’s solve the puzzle.

Weary travelers for four decades were kept awake by the funny signs and nourished by the taste of this Clewiston oasis.

Lost in time in the Seminole County woods is an unmarked spring with an interesting past.

Boldness and tenacity took Winn-Dixie from a single store in Miami to a multi-billion dollar grocery empire.

While sitting beneath the long porch that runs the length of the Cassadaga Hotel, I have a good view of Stevens Street and Harmony Hall. In…

What started as two women making tropical treats for their friends was made stalwart by the Taylor and Webb families.

A late bloomer relative to its neighbors, Winter Springs went through some growing pains including an intense debate over what its name…

“Here will soon be one of the busiest and most populous towns in Florida,” insisted one October 1925 announcement. Another advertisement…

His story is epic. Perhaps no one in Orlando was more universally loved than this charismatic pioneer from Lockhart.

A quiet Florida citrus town became the scene of a gruesome racial cleansing that purged the entire black population for over 60 years.