A Tour of SANFORD, FLORIDA: This City is Incredible!
Sanford is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Seminole County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 53,570.
Known as the Historic Waterfront Gateway City, Sanford sits on the southern shore of Lake Monroe at the head of navigation on the St. Johns River. Native Americans first settled in the area thousands of years before the city was formed. The Seminoles would arrive in the area in the 18th century. During the Second Seminole War in 1836, the United States Army established Camp Monroe and built a road that is currently known as Mellonville Avenue. The city sits approximately 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Orlando.
Sanford is home to Seminole State College of Florida and the Central Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Its downtown attracts tourists with shops, restaurants, a marina, and a lakefront walking trail. The Orlando Sanford International Airport, which is in the heart of the town, functions as the secondary commercial airport for international and domestic carriers in the Orlando metropolitan area.
The opening of Walt Disney World in October 1971 shifted the economy of Central Florida away from agriculture, military installations, defense/aerospace industries, and the NASA manned and unmanned space programs, and further towards tourism, service industries and residential development, the center of which is Orlando. But because of Sanford's former preeminence as a trade center, the city retains a significant collection of older commercial and residential architecture, on streets shaded by live oaks hung with Spanish moss. Its location on Lake Monroe and access to the navigable waterway of the St. Johns River has made it Central Florida's additional center for numerous marinas, allowing access for pleasure boats and commercial vessels to and from the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway via Jacksonville and Mayport to the north.
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How to Do Florida: Visit Downtown Sanford, Florida
Located between Orlando and Daytona Beach, Sanford is a Florida town you need to visit. Come experience the charm and ambiance of Sanford's 19th-century buildings, pristine waterfront, unique shops and restaurants.
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ANOTHER DAY IN SANFORD, FLORIDA | Is It Worth Visiting?
Explore this beautiful historic City filled with unique shops, galleries, and eclectic restaurants. Take a stroll on the Riverwalk along the picturesque St. John’s River, or past the beautifully preserved historic homes under the canopy of our tree-lined streets. Take in a performance. Explore central Florida’s only zoo. It’s all here awaiting you!
There are plenty of great shops, restaurants, activities, and a vibrant night life here. This quaint City was formed in 1877 and still retains the charm and beauty of a bygone era. Do search for treasured antiques, visit our nationally-recognized folk art gallery, or be adventurous and learn to sail Lake Monroe.
The best restaurants are right here in Sanford, FL. You won’t find any chain restaurants – only locally-owned. Treat your taste buds with some amazing eats with flavor profiles from American Bistro, Greek, Continental, Soul, Seafood and German cuisines.
If you’re looking for things to do in Sanford, cool stuff awaits you in our charming Historic Downtown! Shops offer antiques, books, musical instruments, gourmet popcorn, vinyl records, vintage clothing, art, crafts and more!
This great city is situated on the south shore of Lake Monroe, which is a widening of the St. John’s River. Did you know that you can sail all the way to the Atlantic Ocean from here? There's many yearly adventurers that set sail from the north east coast and head down to winter over in our marina. It’s wonderful to hear the stories they bring from home, and how much they enjoy being here. With an average high temperature of 82.7°, an average low temperature of 62.8° and an average temperature of 72.75°, what’s not to like? Sanford FL is the perfect place to vacation.
It’s easy to get here. The city is home to the Orlando-Sanford Airport, the Port of Sanford and Monroe Harbour Marina, as well as the southern terminus of the Amtrak Auto Train and a local stop on Sun Rail. Fly in, float, or load your vehicle, motorcycles or bicycles and ride the rails to get here. For international visitors, many charter companies fly into this airport, and for those here in the US, Allegiant Air flies into the airport. If you’re coming by car, we’re conveniently located to I-4 and the 417. For travelers wanting a departure from a stay at a hotel, we have charming Bed & Breakfasts to accommodate even the most discerning guests.
The streets of the historic residential district are covered by a canopy of trees – many of which are more than a century old. Revealed there, is a collection of lovingly-restored art and crafts and Victorian-style homes. Visit eclectic shops and restaurants, many of which offer outdoor seating. Take in a performance at the historic Wayne Densch Performing Arts Theater or the intimate Princess Theater. Stroll the Riverwalk on beautiful Lake Monroe. Sanford is home to a multitude of churches of almost every denomination, and many of them are located right here in the historic residential area. It’s all here and readily accessible.
At the east end of town, sits Ft. Mellon Park, where you have a view of the lake. Here, children can cool off in the “splash pad” or play in the playhouse complete with slides. Play a game of hoops at the basketball courts or gather at one of the picnic pavilions.
If you are bringing your “best friend” with you, you’ll find many places to eat in Sanford FL that are dog-friendly. The city is also home to “Paw Park,” a place where they can make some new furr-ever friends and run and play, all within the safety of a fully-fenced park-like setting.
If it’s water you love, there are many activities to explore. Learn to sail, take a walk or jog along the Riverwalk, or take a cruise on the Rivership Barbara Lee. You can also rent a boat and explore the river on your own. There's alligators, so swimming is not recommended! It is fun to see them, and you will often find that the best times to do so is in the morning or late afternoon. During the winter months, you will see fewer of them that at other times of the year. You may also see numerous species of migratory songbirds as well as our resident birds, like Peregrine Falcons, who actually nest in downtown as well as along the shores of Lake Monroe. In this 9,406 acre lake lives an abundance of fish such as Crappies, Bluegill and Bass. It is considered one of the best fishing spots along the St. John’s River.
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Exploring Sanford, Florida! | Wondermade & Hollerbach's Willow Tree Cafe
We went to Sanford, Florida to explore a new area of the Sun Shine state with some coworkers. Many people say that Willow Tree Cafe is better than the German Pavilion at EPCOT and we are on the fence. Peter thinks it is a more authentic experience but Sarah is siding with EPCOT. Check out Wondermade who makes delicious flavored marshmallows.
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Explore Sanford, FL
Explore Sanford today. There's so many great things in the city to enjoy. We invite you to bring your friends and family to this historic and fun city! exploresanford.com.
City of Sanford Florida - Downtown Activities and Events
Come check out all of the fun and beautiful activities and scenery that the City of Sanford has to offer!
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Best Riverside Restaurant Sanford, Fl (407) 636-6300 For the best food in the most relaxing environment visit Otters On The River @
Have a taste for the most awesome seafood? Pick up a friend or two and join us at Otters on the River and share in some of our drink specials and tasty meals. Restaurant with a pool.
We are located in Sanford minutes from Orlando, Oviedo, Winter Park, Deltona, Debary and More.
Episode 105: Willow Tree Cafe
Wilcommen to Local Flavor: Restaurant Edition! This show chef Costa Magoulas and his guests from Hollerbach's Willow Tree Cafe cook german food.
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구름을 따라서 달려간 곳! 샌포드 벼룩시장이다. 입구부터 흥겨운 음악이 넘친다. 두 분 연주 솜씨가 예사롭지 않다. 앗! 또 다른 명물이다. “여기서 뭐하세요?” “보시다시피 여기에선 레게음악을, 저기는 밥 말리 관련 제품을 팔아요.” 레게음악의 영웅, 밥말리가 새겨진 티셔츠가 눈길을 끈다. 한 눈에 봐도 부부다. 부부는 살수록 서로를 닮는다. 밥말리 캐릭터 상품을 파는 이들 부부의 표정이 유난히도 건강하다. 저렴한 가격에 실용적인 생활용품이 넘쳐나는 샌포드 벼룩시장! 주말엔 무려 2만 여명이 찾아오는, 전통있는 시장이라고 한다.
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Therefore dalryeogan where the clouds! The Sanford Flea Market. Plenty of exciting music from the entrance. Two minutes to play workmanship is not unusual. Aww! Another specialty. What are you doing here? In reggae music, as you can see here, there's a Bob Marley sells related products. Heroes of reggae music, t-shirts engraved bapmalri eye-catching. The couple look at a glance. The couple salsurok resemble each other. Bapmalri the expression of the couple selling character goods is unusually healthy. The practical household goods overflowing Sanford flea market at an affordable price! This coming weekend, nearly 20,000 Find referred to as a traditional market.
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■촬영일자 : 2012년 4월(April)
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Dead Mall: Seminole Mall Florida
**DEMOLISHED AND REPLACED WITH SEMINOLE CITY CENTRE**
Hello Everyone! Exploring my first dead mall. This is Seminole Mall located in Seminole, Florida. It's officially listed as a dead mall on deadmalls.com. Many stores have been left abandoned or vacant.
When hard times hit in the late 2000s, a lot of the smaller stores closed followed by the larger anchor stores. This brought about the foreclosure of the mall in 2011 by a bank holding company.
Built in 1965, Seminole Mall holds a lot of historical significance to the area as it was the location of the meeting where City Council members chose to designate Seminole as a city. It was considered Seminole Downtown at the time, and still is today.
Developers, North American Development Group (who specialize in managing and the development/redevelopment of shopping centers) along with Primerica Group One purchased this mall sitting on 39 acres with a proposal in mind to build a larger more modern shopping center renaming it Seminole City Center razing this mall completely. Its fate with the wrecking ball will commence between December of 2015 and March of 2016 with full completion of the newer open air shopping center one year later.
NADG and Primerica Group One purchased Seminole Mall for only $14.6 million, much cheaper than what Downtown Seminole purchased it for in 2006 paying $35.7 million. A year later, in 2013, they purchased two commercial business buildings near the property for $1.8 million. These will be part of the redevelopment process and will not be razed. One of the anchor stores currently in business at Seminole Mall, Stein Mart, will be relocating to one of these buildings before demolition commences.
Only a few stores remain. K-Mart closed its doors in 2012 and Ross closed in January of 2014 leaving behind Stein Mart and Bells as the larger anchor stores. Publix also relocated across the road, and CVS closed more recently. Most of the smaller stores and all of the restaurants are gone. There is also an attached plaza which has mostly closed stores. This mall has a unique design with the mall and plaza combined, and was once a hustling and bustling place to shop.
I believe this is the end of the mall era which saddens me, personally. I have always preferred them over the newer open air plazas. I still remember when it was the malls that took over the downtown shopping areas. Now the big box stores are taking over the malls. They are more convenient to shop in, especially during inclement weather not having to drive to other areas of the parking lot, or dodging traffic while walking on foot. Everything was right there including a foot court. Clearwater Mall, also nearby in Florida, was foreclosed upon the same year, also replaced with an open air shopping center.
I wanted to document this history before it was lost to the recking ball for good. This seems to be the fate of many malls of today, soon to be yesteryear.
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Riding Aboard Amtrak's Auto Train
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Amtrak's Auto Train is one of the premiere long distance passenger trains in the United States, traveling between Florida and the Northeast. It is the only train in North America that allows you to bring a personal vehicle onboard with you. In this video, I take a ride aboard the Auto Train from Sanford, Florida to Lorton, Virginia. We'll take a look at some of the onboard amenities as well as the vehicle loading and unloading process at the end of the line. All aboard!
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I took a trip with my Bike to Florida from Virginia on the auto train.
Pros:
1.Roomette was stellar, get it if you can
2. Staff was careful and professional with handling my bike
3. Staff on board was amazing!
4. Sleeping in roomette was so fun, and comfy
Cons:
1. Business seats and regular seats AVOID them on this long haul
2. no privacy on regular seats
3. lines seemed to take forever, be patient
4. Even with military discount it was a bit pricey....but worth it.
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Auto Train is an 855-mile-long (1,376 km) scheduled daily train service for passengers and their automobiles operated by Amtrak between Lorton, Virginia (near Washington, D.C.), and Sanford, Florida (near Orlando). Although there are similar services around the world, the Auto Train is the only one of its kind in the United States. The Auto Train is the only north–south Amtrak train in the east to use Superliner cars.
Passengers ride either in coach seats or private sleeping car rooms while their vehicles are carried in enclosed automobile-carrying freight cars, called autoracks. The train has a maximum capacity of 320 vehicles. The train also includes lounge cars and dining cars. The Auto Train service allows its passengers to avoid driving Interstate 95 in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, while bringing their own vehicle with them.
The service operates as train 53 southbound and 52 northbound. The train is non-stop between its terminal at Lorton, Virginia, and Sanford, Florida. Amtrak's Auto Train is the successor to an earlier similarly named service operated by the privately owned Auto-Train Corporation in the 1970s.
Joe's Crab Shack - Sanford, Florida
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FireHouse BBQ DeLand Florida
Craig Kimmel of FireHouse BBQ in DeLand Florida with Tom Fischer of at Kentucky State BBQ Festival in Danville, Kentucky. We taste his Maker's Mark baked beans and BBQ Sundae.
Driving around Downtown Sanford, FL
Old Swedish Church, Sanford, Florida, USA
Sanford, celebrating its 125th anniversary this year, adopted the Swedish tradition to recognize the Upsala immigrants as one of the largest ethnic groups in Sanford's early history.
The Swedes contributed to the making of Sanford long before the city was incorporated in 1877, according to joint research by the societies. Many of Sanford's early buildings and streets were constructed by Swedish labor. Later generations of Swedes became celery farmers, businessmen, and civil servants.
Last year, two Swedish descendants, Charlie Carlson and Teri Patterson, and local history researcher Christine Kinlaw-Best completed a book chronicling Sanford's Swedish heritage. The Swedish History of Seminole County is available at the Sanford and the Seminole County museums.
Many of those first immigrants came from the Uppsala region of Sweden. The late 1860s and early 1870s brought hard times for those living in the lowlands near Uppsala. Food was often scarce because farmers could not keep up with the hunger of the growing population in Stockholm and nearby communities.
The iron mining and steel industries that would provide the jobs and the labor unrest that would bring sweeping political and social changes in Sweden were still decades away.
Between 1867 and 1886, nearly 450,000 Swedes emigrated to escape harsh economic conditions in their homeland. Many came to the United States, and most went to the Midwest.
However, 150 adults, mostly carpenters, masons, painters, cabinetmakers, blacksmiths and horticulturists, founded New Upsala west of Sanford as the first and largest of five Swedish settlements in Central Florida. The first group arrived in Florida on May 30, 1871. Most were young men, in their 20s to mid-30s.
Their first jobs were at Belair, Henry Shelton Sanford's pioneer citrus groves. Oranges and Sanford's founder played major roles in the founding of the colony named for the university city northeast of the Swedish capital of Stockholm.
Sanford, a wealthy Connecticut manufacturer, lawyer and statesman, had irritated Cracker settlers by hiring black laborers to clear his land. When attacks by whites killed some of the black workers and wounded others, many fled.
Sanford, whose wife, Gertrude, had many Swedes in her family tree, sponsored Swedes to labor a year in return for their travel and living expenses. Joined by others, they founded the community of New Upsala (now, simply Upsala) near Belair.
OK, back to the grapes and Grapeville.
Sanford grew grapes at Belair, along with 140 types of citrus, pineapple, olives, figs and others fruits.
The Swedes grew grapes, too. Grape growers were prevalent in the state in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The state's oldest farm association is the Florida Grape Growers Association.
Swedes moved into the Piedmont community of the south Seminole-Apopka area in about 1877. Many of the early settlers enjoyed homemade wines they made from oranges and from the thick-skinned muscadine grapes they found growing wild in small clusters. Citrus pioneers August Gust Jackson and Olaf Larsson and his sons, Jonas and Lars, opened the first of several early commercial wineries.
Now, the exact original location of the Grapeville area of Sanford is unknown, but the small Swedish community was a neighbor to Upsala, and its early residents attended church services and social gatherings in Upsala before they built their own church. Research for the Swedish book found another Grapeville in Litchfield County, Conn., birthplace of Henry Sanford.
The Swedish book notes, The new GreeneWay expressway now cuts through the heart of the old community of Grapeville.
Copies of the book can be ordered by writing to the Sanford Museum, 520 E. First St., Sanford, FL 32771, or by calling 407-302-1000.
This book, others in the Sanford series and many more also are available at the Museum of Seminole County History at the Five Points government complex on U.S. 17-92, across from Flea World. You can check on the titles and cost by calling museum specialist Karen Jacobs at 407-321-2489 or write to the museum at 300 Bush Blvd., Sanford, FL 32773.
The St. Lucia Festival includes traditional smorgasbord foods, music, historical displays and Scandinavian-style Christmas decor. And it's not just for those with Swedish heritage. The museum is open for the festival from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Today is the last day of ticket sales for the Sanford Historic Trust's holiday tour of homes in the Historic Residential District. Tours are noon to 5 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. For information, call 407-263-4488.
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Trip to Florida 2012 | Rear View | 12 of 24 | From Sanford, FL to Marimar, FL
After filling up at 7-11 we head to the turnpike where due to road construction we get lost. Once we got found again we find our way to I-95 we head South to Florida's Turnpike. Near Pompano Beach we'll get lost. Again. Found the Homestead part of Florida's Turnpike and got back on to get back off to change out DVDs. The segment ends at a new looking hotel in the middle of a empty lot.
This series of videos chronicles my travels through the states of Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and Iowa. as filmed in Mid August of 2012. The video is in real time as time lapse, while cool, is distracting and takes away from the real beauty of this wonderful country. Please be aware the original audio was striped away (was Sirius XM Satellite Radio) due to copyright concerns.
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Let's Go #Sanfording: Checking Out Throwbacks Sanford and Suffering Bastard Tiki Bar
We head to Sanford, FL for a night of #Sanfording and checking out 2 of the newer locations to drink and eat: Throwbacks Sanford and Suffering Bastard Tiki Bar. Both were excellent and we are looking forward to returning to explore further.
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