Born in Winter Park, she recently retired from 36 years of service as a public school teacher. Except for her college years and a brief teaching position in Sarasota, she has lived in the same Winter Park neighborhood all of her life. Growing up in…
Reverend M.L. Hawkins and Mrs. Allie Johnson are standing in front of Warner Chapel, located at 734 West Comstock Avenue. Mrs. Johnson's father was instrumental in the building of the wooden church in the early 1930s. She has worshiped and…
The church was organized in 1887 by Reverend and Mrs. Charles Ambrose. The building was erected at the corner of Pennsylvania and Lyman Avenues in 1892. With close to 400 active parishioners, Mt. Moriah represents the oldest and one of the largest…
The 271 Capen Avenue church was constructed in 1935 and rebuilt in 1953. Reverend John Phillips tended to one of Winter Park's smaller congregations at the time this image was taken.
Newspaper article about the cheese giveaway presented by the US Department of Agriculture at the Winter Park Community Center as a method of reducing the surplus of cheese purchased from dairy farms.