The kickoff for the Orlando Land Trust was held at the Lake Eola House in early December. It was a spectacular evening, as the sun set over Lake Eola and downtown Orlando providing a beautiful background for the event. Ted Haddock, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, gave a comprehensive presentation on the formation of […]
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College Park Paper: One of the rewards for writing about Orlando’s history (with College Park as my muse) is learning the backstory — discovering the dreamers and passionate people, many who came into a land of pristine lakes and pine-forested wilderness to realize their dreams. And since Orlando’s incorporation in 1875, we’ve had many citizens
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“Lake Eola always has been a hub around which Orlando has been built,” Eve Bacon wrote in her history of Orlando. That’s sure the feeling of the folks who last fall founded the Orlando Land Trust, the mission of which is “to preserve, protect, and expand Lake Eola Park and the surrounding green space of
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ORLANDO, FLA. – Wednesday, October 23, 2019 – A local group of volunteers, motivated to protect the future of Lake Eola Park, has announced the creation of Orlando Land Trust (OLT) and its first capital campaign to protect and create green space at the park. Started by two Orlando natives, OLT seeks to raise $3.5
Orlando’s heart of the city, Lake Eola Park, started out as a vacant tract of land with a small lake. Through the generosity of Jacob Summerlin and his family in 1883, the city was gifted the tract with particular restrictions that the property be preserved as a park in perpetuity. Summerlin envisioned a beautiful, serene
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