Ocoee On Fire: The 1920 Election Day Massacre

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

Davis Family: How to Winn the Dixie

Boldness and tenacity took Winn-Dixie from a single store in Miami…

Beeman’s Palm Springs Ginger Ale

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

Lorida, Florida: Origins of a Cracker Town

Many towns in Florida were started by skilled real estate developers with capitalistic dreams of striking it rich; not Lorida. Its cowboy homesteaders sought the…

Brighton, Florida: Ghost town that was almost a county seat

The Pioneer Life and Murder of Dempsey Dubois Crews, Jr.

The well-known cowboy came to frontier Zolfo…

The Lost Colony of Pabor Lake

The settlement was founded in 1892, four miles north of Avon Park…

What happened at N*****town Knoll?

Up until the 1990s this offensively named settlement appeared on Florida maps, but its origins were lost. Until now.

Legend of Code Hill, the Sage of Bear Lake

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

War of 17–92: Casselberry v. Fern Park

Gordon Barnett’s Fern Park was riding high until Hibbard…