1901 | |
1902 | - First. School Board elected* - Atlantic Coast Line buys Plant Railroad System* |
1903 | - Evening Star begins publication* - Seaboard Air Line purchases Florida Central & Peninsula Railroad* |
1904 | |
1905 | - First mail delivery begins* - 1905 Old school house burns* |
1906 | - Brick schoolhouse built* |
1907 | - First brick street (Orange Avenue, from Church to Jefferson)* - First rural mail delivery started* |
1908 | - Seventh Day Adventists purchase Harris Sanitarium on Lake Estelle* - Seventh Day Adventists open Florida Sanitarium (Later, Florida Hospital)*** |
1909 | - Orange County Fair Association reorganized* - Model "T" introduced by Henry Ford allowing the "average" American to travel*** |
1910 | - First air flight in Florida by Lincoln Beachey at Mid-Winter Exposition* in a plane designed by Wilbur and Orville Wright*** |
References:
* Bacon, Eve. Orlando a Centennial History: Vol I. Chuluota, FL: The Mickler House, Publishers. 1975
** Bacon, Eve. Orlando a Centennial History: Vol II. Chuluota, FL: The Mickler House, Publishers. 1977
*** Orange County Regional History Center – Informational Display