On Academy Avenue at Boston Street, on the right when traveling east on Academy Avenue.
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Henry Jackson was one of the first Black homesteaders to settle in the Oviedo area. Jackson was born in 1883 in Mitchell County, Georgia, one of fourteen children. He moved to Florida in 1910. Using the Homestead Act of 1862, . . . — — Map (db m242640) HM
On State Road 426 at James Drive, on the right when traveling north on State Road 426.
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The name "JAMESTOWN" is a tribute to Benjamin and Esther James. The James' homesteaded about 1900 on 160 acres in the area known as "The Woods" on the northern edge of the settlement of Gabriella. Mr. Ben James built a home and . . . — — Map (db m92964) HM
On Lake Charm Drive at Lake Charm Circle, on the right when traveling north on Lake Charm Drive.
Walter & Mattie Gwynn settled here in 1868. Gwynn served as comptroller of Florida from 1861-1865 and state treasurer from 1877-1881. Their daughter, Martha, named the lake. She said the lake and its beautiful surroundings provided her with . . . — — Map (db m179058) HM
Near Black Hammock Fish Camp Road, 0.2 miles north of Black Hammock Road when traveling north.
The Oviedo area was first referred to as the Lake Jesup Settlement. Lake Jesup's first store was built on the southern shore in 1870 by John F. Mitchell. Antonio Solary, a Jacksonville merchant, built another store with a larger wharf west of . . . — — Map (db m93010) HM
On West Broadway street (State Road 426) at South Lake Jesup Avenue, on the right when traveling east on West Broadway street.
Oviedo pioneer J. H. Lee Sr. built the Lawton House in 1890 on South Central avenue near the old downtown crossroads. In 1910, Mr. Lee sold the home to his newly wed daughter Charlotte “Lottie” Lee and her husband Thomas Willington . . . — — Map (db m123095) HM
On Clark Street at Lake Jessup Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Clark Street.
Navy Plane Crash
January 15, 1962. Lt. Charles Hodgate, Delton Wilson, John Bush, and Horace Marks struggled to get their A3D-2 Skywarrior plane airborne. Sanford NAS cleared them for take-off on a bombing run, but the tail bumper, starboard . . . — — Map (db m179789) HM
On North Central Avenue (State Road 419/434) at Railroad Street, on the left when traveling north on North Central Avenue.
In the late 1860's Confederate veterans and freed slaves from the war-devastated South began to move into the settlement called "the Lake Jesup Community," to be joined later by others from Northern states and from Sweden. One of the Swedish . . . — — Map (db m93011) HM
Near State Road 426, 0.1 miles south of Slavia Road, on the right when traveling north.
In 1911 some members of Holy Trinity Slovak Lutheran Church, Cleveland, Ohio, organized the Slavia Colony Company as an agency to help them establish a settlement in the area now traversed by Red Bug Lake Road, Mikler Road and State Road 426. Early . . . — — Map (db m92974) HM
Near Spring Avenue, 0.1 miles south of Lake Street, on the left when traveling north.
North of this marker on Lake Jessup are warm sulphur springs, near which John and William Bartram camped during their excursion up the Saint Johns River in 1765-1766.
In the late 1870’s, W.G. White built a store here, bringing goods by . . . — — Map (db m156161) HM
