Sanford, Florida This article is about the town/city in Florida.
Sanford .
Sanford, Florida City of Sanford The Sanford Grammar School in January 2007 The Sanford Grammar School in January 2007 Official seal of Sanford, Florida Seal Official logo of Sanford, Florida Founded by Henry Shelton Sanford Sanford is a town/city in the central region of the U.S.
State of Florida and is the governmental center of county of Seminole County.
Known as the "Historic Waterfront Gateway City," Sanford sits on the southern shore of Lake Monroe at the head of navigation on the St.
During the Second Seminole War in 1836, the United States Army established Camp Monroe and assembled a road that is presently known as Mellonville Avenue.
Sanford is home to Seminole State College of Florida and the Central Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens.
The Orlando Sanford International Airport, which is in the heart of the town, functions as the secondary commercial airport for global and domestic carriers in the Orlando urbane area.
1 Attractions in Sanford The Sanford Farmers Market (Every Saturday) Sanford Museum Historic Sanford Memorial Stadium The ten-foot wide paved walkway spans a distance of a several miles in Sanford's downtown region along the waterfront of Lake Monroe.
The town/city is redoing the face of Sanford Avenue, one of the chief streets, with a new brick road, wider sidewalks, trees, flowers, and benches.
Sanford is connected to the central Florida commuter stockyards Sun - Rail, with the station 2 miles from the downtown.
To support the its green initiatives, Sanford has added five electric car charging stations. The town/city is proposing to replace streetlamp bulbs with LED lights.
In 2012, the town/city launched the "Imagine Sanford" initiative, which asks all Sanford inhabitants to get involved in town/city planning by submitting and voting on enhancement ideas via the city's Imagine Sanford website. The town/city of Sanford also launched a redesigned town/city government website in 2012. Florida was acquired by the United States from Spain in 1821, but the Seminole Wars would delay settlement.
State, and Mellonville became governmental center of county of Orange County, formerly called Mosquito County with its governmental center of county across the lake at Enterprise.
In 1870, "General" Henry Shelton Sanford bought 12,548 acres (50.78 km2) to the west of Mellonville and laid out the improve of Sanford.
Several groups of Swedes were imported as indentured servants to do the back-breaking workforce of establishing a new town and clearing the sub-tropical wilderness in advance of creating a citrus empire, arriving by steamboat in 1871. Incorporated in 1877 with a populace of 100, Sanford combined Mellonville in 1883.
The South Florida Railroad ran a line from Sanford to Tampa, later the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railroad ran a line to Jacksonville, and the region became the biggest shipper of oranges in the world.
Arthur vacationed a week at the Sanford House, a lakeside hotel assembled in 1875 and period in 1882.
In 1911, the improve of Sanford Heights seceded from Sanford, because of discord over municipal services provided by Sanford.
This added to concerns that Sanford's ability to grew would be constrained by the encircling towns of Goldsboro, Georgetown and Sanford Heights, as well as Lake Monroe to the north.
Florida State Representative and former Sanford mayor Forrest Lake led legislative accomplishments to curtail Sanford Heights' ability to incorporate, autonomous of Sanford.
Goldsboro was also a target in Forrest Lake's annexation process, prompting Goldsboro's leaders to start a letter writing campaign to small-town newspapers. On April 6, 1911, the Sanford town/city council passed a resolution to annex Goldsboro and on April 26, 1911 the Florida council passed the Sanford Charter Bill, dissolving the incorporation of both Sanford and Goldsboro, and reorganizing Sanford as a town/city that encompassed Goldsboro inside its boundaries. In 1913, Sanford became governmental center of county of Seminole County, created from Orange County.
In 1942, Naval Air Station Sanford was established, which conducted working training in the Lockheed PV-1 Ventura, Lockheed PBO Hudson, Grumman F4 - F/General Motors FM-1 Wildcat and the Grumman F6 - F Hellcat.
At its peak in 1943-45, NAS Sanford was home to approximately 360 officers, 1500 enlisted men and 150 WAVES and encompassed an auxiliary airfield to the east near Lake Harney known as Outlying Field Osceola.
A primary assembly program ensued, with NAS Sanford redeveloped as a Master Jet Base for carrier-based Douglas A-3 Skywarrior and later North American A-5 - A and RA-5 - C Vigilante airplane .
As a result of the increasing costs of the Vietnam War and concurrent federal domestic spending related to President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society civil programs, NAS Sanford was one of a several stateside military installations identified for closure by the Department of Defense in 1967.
This resulted in a momentous economic downturn for the City of Sanford and Seminole County with the departure of all military personnel and their families.
The airfield was conveyed to the City of Sanford via quitclaim deed by the General Services Administration (GSA) in 1969, retitled Sanford Airport and redeveloped as a general aviation facility.
Subsequently retitled Sanford Regional Airport, then Central Florida Regional Airport, the airport commenced commercial airline service in 1995 and was retitled Orlando Sanford International Airport the following year.
The Navy's existence is memorialized on the airport by two historical markers and the NAS Sanford Memorial Park, which was dedicated on Memorial Day in May 2003 and includes a restored RA-5 - C Vigilante on loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum that was placed on permanent static display at the entrance to the commercial airline terminal.
But because of Sanford's former preeminence as a trade center, the town/city retains a momentous compilation of older commercial and residentiary architecture, on streets shaded by live oaks hung with Spanish moss.
Historic Sanford Memorial Stadium is a baseball stadium positioned in Sanford, Florida.
The ballpark is positioned just south of Lake Monroe on Mellonville Avenue, less than a mile from Historic Downtown Sanford.
The stadium stands near the site of the old Sanford Field, which was originally assembled in 1926.
Sanford Field is the locale where Jackie Robinson first took to the field in 1946 to play baseball as a member of a white Class AAA International League Team in Daytona Beach, Florida, which was partnered with the Montreal Royals.
Sanford is positioned at 28 47 22 N 81 16 32 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 26.5 square miles (68.63 km2), 22.96 square miles (59.47 km2) of which is territory and 3.54 square miles (9.17 km2) of which is water.
Sanford is bordered by Lake Mary to the southwest and to the north by Lake Monroe and De - Bary.
Climate data for Sanford, Florida Sanford Demographics Enumeration Sanford Seminole County Florida Sanford was historically a core for Central Florida transit as port on the St.
The Orlando Sanford International Airport provides global and commuter airline service for central Florida.
Sanford is the southern end of Amtrak's Auto Train which conveys Eastern Seaboard travelers and their vehicles to Lorton, Virginia, about 25 miles (40 km) south of Washington, D.C.
Sanford is near the northern end of the I-4 Corridor between Daytona Beach and Orlando.
The State Road 417 or Central Florida Greene - Way begins in Sanford at Interstate 4 and forms the Eastern Beltway around Orlando ending at Walt Disney World.
Sun - Rail, the Central Florida commuter rail system, serves the town/city out of a new station off of State Road 46.
Seminole State College of Florida, Reformation Bible College, Sanford Middle School , Goldsboro Elementary School The Zinn Beck Field at Sanford Memorial Stadium is titled after him. George Zimmerman, Sanford resident, attained infamy after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
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