Ocoee, Florida Ocoee, Florida Location in Orange County and the state of Florida Location in Orange County and the state of Florida Website City of Ocoee Ocoee is a town/city in Orange County, Florida, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a populace of 35,579. It is part of the Orlando Kissimmee Sanford, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The city's populace increased further after the American Civil War as confederate soldiers and their families settled into the area, including Captain Bluford Sims and General William Temple Withers who wintered at the location. Captain Sims received a territory grant for a 74-acre parcel to the west of Starke Lake in what is now the downtown portion of Ocoee on October 5, 1883. In 1886, Captain Sims, along with a group of initial settlers, led an accomplishment to have the town platted and changed the name to Ocoee, after a river he interval up near in Tennessee. Ocoee is a Cherokee Indian word anglicized from uwagahi, meaning "apricot vine place" and this inspired the choice of the city's flower. Bluford Sims began groundbreaking work in budding wild orange trees while in Ocoee.
His commercial citrus nursery was the first in the United States in Ocoee, supplying many other groves in Florida with their first trees as well as shipping young citrus trees to California. The assembly of the Florida Midland Railroad in the 1880s spurred expansion in the region and many more pioneer moved in. On November 2, 1920, after July Perry and Moses Norman, two black men, attempted to vote and encouraged other blacks to vote, the entire black populace of the town was violently attacked.
Before the massacre, Ocoee's black populace numbered approximately five hundred; after the massacre, however, the black populace was nearly eliminated.
Ocoee was incorporated in 1922 (or 1923) and became a town/city in 1925. State Road 50 (SR 50) was constructed south of downtown Ocoee in 1959 and provided a direct east-west connection between the City and a burgeoning Orlando.
The evolution of what would turn into Florida State Road 50 made the town more accessible to housing developers. Florida's Turnpike was opened just south of downtown Ocoee in 1964. In late 1990, Ocoee was connected to Orlando by a extension of Florida State Road 408 (the East-West Expressway) which then joined the Florida's Turnpike south of SR 50. In 2000, the culmination of Florida State Road 429 (the Western Expressway) linked Ocoee with Walt Disney World to the south. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 15.7 square miles (40.6 km2), of which 14.7 square miles (38.1 km2) is territory and 0.97 square miles (2.5 km2) (6.12%) is water. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 81.47% White, 6.59% African American, 0.35% Native American, 2.93% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 6.22% from other competitions, and 2.38% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 29.2% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 36.2% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 7.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
As of the 2005-2009 American Community Survey the populace was 31,544, and the town/city had a ethnic makeup of 74.9% White, 13.8% African American, 4.0% Asian, 0.2% Native American, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 5.4% some other race and 1.6% two or more competitions.
High schools serving sections of Ocoee include Ocoee High School, West Orange High School. and Olympia High School. City of Ocoee, FL.
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