Orange County Library System Shares Orlando’s History

By Scottie Campbell You would have to live under the Linton E. Allen Memorial Fountain in Lake Eola to not know that the City of Orlando is celebrating its 150th year. The Orange County Library System has marked the occasion with a trio of blog posts exploring different aspects of

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Women Who Made Our City Beautiful: The Legacies of Glenda Hood and Mary I. Johnson

By Adaeze Nwigwe, from the Spring 2024 Edition of Reflections Magazine Magical, picturesque, and for a period phenomenal: all were descriptions that could be applied to the city of Orlando in 1908. Early migrants to the area such as Jessie Johnson Branch from South Dakota were enraptured by the verdant

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