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Orlando
Joy Wallace Dickinson

Orlando

Arcadia Publishing (Oct 2003)
9780738524429
160 pages | 193 x 249 mm | English
Dewey 975.9 DIC

Genre

  • Non-Fiction

Subject

  • History / General
  • History / United States / State & Local / General
  • History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
  • Orlando (Fla.)
  • Travel / United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)

Plot

Emerging as Florida's largest inland city, Orlando in its infancy more resembled the Old West than the Old South-a frontier town born in the days of the Seminole Wars. The free-spirited early years of cattle ranching and cowboys on the palmetto prairie gave way to a series of booms throughout the city's history. Whether it was railroads, real estate, citrus, or tourism, Orlando has been a community able to cultivate growth through big dreams and an ambitious attitude.