Winter Park, Florida Winter Park, Florida City of Winter Park Images from top, left to right: Downtown Winter Park Historic District, Knowles Memorial Chapel, Robert Bruce Barbour House, Albin Polasek House and Studio Images from top, left to right: Downtown Winter Park Historic District, Knowles Memorial Chapel, Robert Bruce Barbour House, Albin Polasek House and Studio Flag of Winter Park, Florida Flag Official seal of Winter Park, Florida Winter Park is a suburban town/city in Orange County, Florida, United States.
The populace was 27,852 at the 2010 United States Census. It is part of the Orlando Kissimmee Sanford, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Winter Park is home to D100 Studio One, the initial and flagship Florida studio of D100 Radio.
Winter Park was established as a resort improve by northern company magnates in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Its chief street includes civic buildings, retail, art arcades, a private liberal arts college, exhibitions, a park, a train station, a golf course nation club, a historic cemetery, and a beach and boat launch.
1.2 The Winter Park sinkhole 1.5 The Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival The Winter Park area's first human inhabitants were migrant Muscogee citizens who had earlier intermingled with the Choctaw and other indigenous citizens .
Chapman, and they assembled a very large tract of land, upon which they prepared the town of Winter Park.
In 1885, a group of businessmen started the Winter Park Company and incorporated it with the Florida Legislature; Chase and Chapman sold the town to the new company.
Arthur, who reported that Winter Park was "the prettiest place I have seen in Florida." President Grover Cleveland visited the region and was given a huge reception at the Seminole Hotel on February 23, 1888.
The following four years both hotel and the town became a fashionable winter resort for northern visitors.
The Winter Park sinkhole In 1972, Henry Swanson, an agricultural agent and "resident layman expert on Central Florida water," wrote a letter to the editor warning Orange County mayors of the sinkhole danger that could be posed by overdevelopment and excessive groundwater use.
Swanson predicted that the west Winter Park region would be especially at risk. In May 1981, amid a reconstructionof record-low water levels in Florida's limestone aquifer, a massive sinkhole opened up near the corner of Denning Drive and Fairbanks Avenue.
The sinkhole first appeared on the evening of May 8, 1981, near the home of Winter Park resident Mae Rose Williams. Within a several hours, a 40-year-old sycamore tree near her home had declined into the sinkhole. The next morning, the hole period to nearly 40 feet (12 m) wide. By early the next day, the hole was close to 40 feet wide.
The following fell into the sinkhole: five Porsches at a repair shop, a pickup truck with camper top, the Winter Park municipal pool, and large portions of Denning Drive. By May 9, nearly 250,000 cubic yards (190,000 m3) of earth had declined into the sinkhole.
The town/city of Winter Park sold sinkhole photographs for promotional and educational purposes. July 9, 1981: Winter Park begins selling sinkhole photographs to educate the improve about sinkholes and to promote tourism.
Famous guests encompassed Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Larry King, Hugh Hefner, John Denver, Langford winter resident Lady Bird Johnson, and President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy Reagan, who jubilated their 40th wedding anniversary there. The Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival The Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival is one of the nation's earliest, biggest juried outside art festivals, rated among the top shows by Sunshine Artist and American Style magazines. In 2012, about 1,200 artists from around the world applied for entry, and an autonomous panel of judges chose 225 nationwide and global artists to attend the show.
The National Endowment for the Arts, the White House, Congress, and many the rest have lauded the Festival for promoting art and art education in Central Florida.
A canal in Winter Park According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.2 square miles (26.3 km2), of which 8.7 square miles (22.5 km2) is territory and 1.5 square miles (3.9 km2) (14.62%) is water. It is nestled among the Winter Park Chain of Lakes, a series of lakes interconnected by a series of navigable canals, which were originally created for flood control and to run logs to a sawmill on present-day Lake Virginia.
The town/city is traversed by the old East Florida and Atlantic Railroad ("Dinky Line") barns bed, which until the 1960s had a stop at Lake Virginia/Rollins College at the town/city park now known as Dinky Dock.
Much of this right of way has been converted to a rail-trail pedestrian/biking path in the form of the Cady Way Trail, which leads from Cady Way Park toward the Baldwin Park neighborhood and downtown Orlando, and in the opposite direction to Oviedo and beyond (via the Florida Trail), due to a new pedestrian bridge spanning Semoran Boulevard (SR 436) in Orange County.
Sun - Rail operates a rail line through Winter Park on the former Atlantic Coast Line, with an Amtrak and Sun - Rail commuter rail station in downtown's historic Central Park.
Winter Park's municipal government has sought to reduce speeding and aggressive driving in its downtown core and residentiary areas by lowering speed limits to 20 miles per hour (32 km/h) in some areas, adding textured traffic-calming brick roads, and aggressively enforcing the law.
Climate data for Winter Park, FL Scenic Olde Winter Park region is punctuated by small, winding brick streets, and a canopy of old southern live oak and camphor trees, draped with Spanish moss.
There are thousands of visitors to annual celebrations including the Bach Festival, the nationally ranked Sidewalk Art Festival, and the Winter Park Concours d'Elegance.
Within the town/city is the Mead Botanical Garden which is a 47.6 acres (19.3 ha) park that encompasses a several ecosystems. It has an amphitheater, butterfly garden, discernment barn and a recreation center. Many[quantify] structures are more than 100 years old. Adventist Health System and Bonnier Corporation are based in Winter Park.
1 Winter Park Memorial Hospital 1,433 4 City of Winter Park 527 The Parke House Academy Winter Park High School Valencia Community College, Winter Park Campus Fortis College, Winter Park Campus Winter Park Tech Woman's Club of Winter Park Winter Park Historical Museum Winter Park Farmers' Market Winter Park Public Library Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival Woman's Club of Winter Park Winter Park (Amtrak station) "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Winter Park city, Florida".
"The Seminole, Winter Park, Orange County, Florida" (PDF).
In letters to all of the mayors in Orange County, Henry Swanson, agricultural agent and resident layman expert on Central Florida water, warns that if small-town governments continue to allow too much water to be drawn from the ground and allow developers to cover the territory with buildings and parking lots, they can expect sinkholes, especially in the west Winter Park area.
On Friday evening, May 8, 1981, Mae Rose Owens - now Mae Rose Williams - was playing with her dog, Muffin, in the front yard of her home on West Comstock Avenue on the west side of Winter Park when she heard a 'queer, swishing' noise.
"Pictures: Winter Park sinkhole".
In 1981, Mae Rose Williams with her dog Muffin, the pooch who stood outside barking fiercely when the Winter Park sinkhole started to open.
Winter Park Magazine.
"Winter Park sinkhole photo loggia".
"51st Annual Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Winter Park city, Florida".
"Monthly Averages for Winter Park, FL".
"City of Winter Park CAFR" (PDF).
"The Parke House Academy".
The Parke House Academy.
"Winter Park Tech".
"Winter Park Historical Association & Museum".
"Winter Park Public Library".
"Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival".
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