Casselberry, Florida Casselberry, Florida City of Casselberry Official seal of Casselberry, Florida Location in Seminole County and the state of Florida Location in Seminole County and the state of Florida Casselberry is a town/city in Seminole County, Florida, United States.
North Triplet Lake in Casselberry, Florida According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.1 square miles (18 km2), of which 6.7 square miles (17 km2) is territory and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2) (6.06%) is water.
Casselberry features over 30 lakes and ponds, the biggest being Lake Howell, the Triplet Chain of Lakes, Lake Kathryn, and Lake Concord.
Prior to European settlement in the 19th-century Native American groups inhabited the Seminole County area, including territory in present-day Casselberry.
After the Homestead Act was passed in 1862, pioneer began homesteading the territory around Lake Concord and the Triplet Chain of Lakes.
Barnett then began a housing evolution west of Lake Concord called Fern Park Estates, composed of small lots and including a fernery for individual owners.
In 1926, Hibbard Casselberry of Winnetka, Illinois was visiting his wife's aunt in close-by Winter Park when he met Gordon Barnett and signed on as his exclusive revenue agent for Fern Park Estates.
Casselberry and Barnett split soon after but Casselberry purchased territory surrounding Fern Park Estates and began platting his own subdivision: Winter Park Ferneries.
The region became known as Fern Park and a postal service was established under that name in 1928.
Casselberry continued to precarious and grew his fernery and real estate company throughout the 1930s while Barnett was propel to the Florida House of Representatives in 1937.
When Barnett introduced a bill to incorporate the Town of Fern Park it was passed and moved to the senate before Fern Park inhabitants could petition the bill, and then Barnett withdrew it.
Hibbard Casselberry convinced the inhabitants of Fern Park that the best way to avoid property taxes was to incorporate their own tax-free town.
A town meeting was held on October 10, 1940 where the tax-free Town of Casselberry was officially incorporated, including parts of Barnett's Fern Park Estates.
As more property was brought into the town/city limits of Casselberry, the region of Fern Park was pushed further south towards SR 436.
The town/city returned to the fern trade after the war but also continued work in textiles and Johnson Electronics became a primary employer for the town/city in the 1950s.
Even with the fact that Casselberry was an incorporated town and Fern Park remained unincorporated the United States Postal Service refused to grant Casselberry its own postal service due to a policy prohibiting the naming of postal services after living persons.
Casselberry established a contract postal service in 1957 at its own cost and the town was finally granted a postal service in 1959, although Hibbard Casselberry lived another ten years.
The City of Casselberry was incorporated on July 25, 1965 and Casselberry's people eventually voted to have property taxes in 1976.
Casselberry's first town/city hall was dedicated in 1970 and comprises part of the current municipal complex.
Casselberry City Hall Sterling Park Elementary The City of Casselberry maintains 17 parks ranging from small neighborhood parks to large centers for recreation.
Lake Hodge Park Red Bug Lake Park Secret Lake Park Seminole Speedway was positioned in Casselberry, operating between 1945 and 1954, and hosting stock car, Modified, and motorcycle racing.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
City of Casselberry Municipalities and communities of Seminole County, Florida, United States
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