Orlando, City of Dreams

by Joy Wallace Dickinson

Emerging as Florida's largest inland city, Orlando in its infancy more resembled the Old West than the Old South-a frontier town born in the days of the Seminole Wars. The free-spirited early years of cattle ranching and cowboys on the palmetto prairie gave way to a series of booms throughout the city's history. Whether it was railroads, real estate, citrus, or tourism, Orlando has been a community able to cultivate growth through big dreams and an ambitious attitude.

160 pages, Paperback

First published October 24, 2003

Reviews

[Ken · Rating 4 out of 5]

A pleasant surprise. This book was well written with a lot of detailed history that I didn't know about.