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West Orange Times & Observer | History

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  • January 24, 2024
Winter Garden Heritage serves up downtown food tours

Sign up for a food tour to sample unique and popular menu items and learn about the city of Winter Garden's long history.

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This week in West Orange County history: Jan. 25, 2024

Local residents and businesses have been making news for more than a century.

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This week in West Orange County history: Jan. 18, 2024

These stories and residents were making headlines in West Orange County's past.

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  • January 17, 2024
Historian completes Gotha history book

Kathleen Klare spent several years gathering details of the Gotha community’s rich past and unearthed some interesting facts about the residents and their lives.

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  • January 17, 2024
1930-2024: Amanda Booker loved on Tildenville children for decades

Amanda Booker ran the area’s daycare center and provided love, education, nutrition and health care to the youngest residents.

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  • January 17, 2024
Garden club giving walking tour of heritage trees

The Bloom & Grow Garden Society will share the history of 56 Winter Garden trees in this two-mile walk.

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This week in West Orange County history: Jan. 11, 2024

These are the people and events who made headlines in West Orange County's past.

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  • January 3, 2024
This week in West Orange County history: Jan. 4, 2024

These are the people and events who made headlines and history in West Orange County's past.

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  • December 31, 2023
Surviving the Holocaust

Winter Garden resident Peggy Duveen was a toddler living in Amsterdam when she and her mother were assigned concentration camp prison numbers and were close to being sent to Auschwitz, but their lives were spared during liberation in spring 1945.

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  • December 20, 2023
This week in West Orange County history: Dec. 21, 2023

These are the people and events who made headlines in West Orange County's past.

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  • December 13, 2023
This week in West Orange County history: Dec. 14, 2023

These are the people and events that made newspaper headlines in West Orange County's past.

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  • November 29, 2023
This week in West Orange County history: Nov. 30, 2023

These are the people and events who made headlines in West Orange County's past.

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  • November 29, 2023
70 years later, veteran recalls Korean War

Members of Tommy Ritten’s family have served in every war and conflict since World War I.

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This week in West Orange County history: Nov. 23, 2023

These are the people and events who made headlines in West Orange County's past.

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This week in West Orange County history: Nov. 16, 2023

Do you remember these stories and folks from yesteryear in West Orange County?

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