Orange Tiny HomesThe parts of Orange County that still have room
Out past the subdivisions there's a different Florida — the homestead towns, the old groves, the cattle land, the places built on big lots where people spread out and put up whatever they needed out back. We got a little obsessed with how those places came to be. Every one is a picture story, and every one ends where we live now: that room out back is where a granny flat, a guest house, or a tiny home goes today. Tap a photo and read.
Read the full story → Before the Horses,It Was Called Rocket City
In the early 1960s a developer drew a 20,000-acre city into the palmetto east of Orlando — a town for the men building the moon rockets. The town never really came. What stayed behind was room. An illustrated local history of Wedgefield, Florida.
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