College Park in Orlando in Orange County, Florida — The American South (South Atlantic)
Astronaut John Watts Young
Photographed by Tim Fillmon, February 21, 2020
1. Astronaut John Watts Young Marker
After text correction.
John Watts Young, NASA astronaut, Gemini veteran, Apollo moonwalker, and space shuttle commander, was the first American to travel in space six times. As an Orlando High School student, Young lived in this house at 815 West Princeton Street from 1945 until graduation in 1948. In 1965, he co-piloted Gemini-Titan III, a program that directly benefited Project Apollo's development and the first voyage to the moon. In 1972, Young was aboard Apollo XVI, the fifth manned landing on the moon, and was the ninth person to walk on the moon. He was commander on the first human-guided test flight of the first space shuttle, Columbia STS-1 in 1981 and the Columbia STS-9 in 1983, which carried Spacelab-1, a removable science laboratory. Young became the Special Assistant to the Director of the Johnson Space Center for Engineering, Operations and Safety in Houston, Texas, in 1987.
Erected 1998 by City of Orlando Commissioners Office District 3, College Park Merchants and Professionals Association, College Park Neighborhood Association, Orange County Historical Society, Inc., Orlando High School Class of 1948, Dana Holland, Caryl Curtis McAlpin, Janine Russ and Clair L. Eptling, Jr., Jim and Nanelle Russ and the Florida Department of State. (Marker Number F-401.)
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Location. 28° 34.274′ N, 81° 23.485′ W. Marker is in Orlando, Florida, in Orange County. It is in College Park. It is on West Princeton Street 0.1 miles east of North Westmoreland Drive, on the right when traveling north. The marker is located in the front yard of a private residence. West Princeton Street is one way eastbound. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 815 West Princeton Street, Orlando FL 32808, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Central Florida. It is also in the American South. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Jack Kerouac House (approx. half a mile away); Lake Ivanhoe Residential Historic District (approx. 0.8 miles away); Lake Adair~Lake Concord Historic District (approx. 0.9 miles away); Dubsdread Golf Course (approx. 0.9 miles away); The Red-Tail Pilots of the Tuskegee Airmen (approx. 1.4 miles away); Loch Haven Park (approx. 1½ miles away); The Black Bottom House of Prayer (approx. 1.7 miles away); Original Jones High School / Callahan Elementary School (approx. 1.9 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Orlando.
Also see . . . John Young: The Prolific Astronaut. Space.com website entry
John Young first joined NASA as an astronaut when the agency was flying
Photographed by PaulwC3, March 11, 2014
2. Astronaut John Watts Young Marker
via NASA, 2002
3. John Young, Astronaut
Photographed by PaulwC3, March 11, 2014
4. John Young Marker and House
Credits. This page was last revised on October 13, 2025. It was originally submitted on March 17, 2014, by PaulwC3 of Northern, Virginia. This page has been viewed 1,978 times since then and 75 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on October 13, 2025, by Tim Fillmon of Webster, Florida. 2. submitted on March 17, 2014, by PaulwC3 of Northern, Virginia. 3. submitted on June 27, 2021, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York. 4. submitted on March 17, 2014, by PaulwC3 of Northern, Virginia.
