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It includes the Osceola County Historical Society Museum's local history exhibits as well as Pioneer Village and its 1889 Ross Lanier House, blacksmith shop, one-room schoolhouse, 1882 citrus packing house, general store, and "cracker house" cow camp. The center includes a multi-purpose room with 50 theater style seats and mini-kitchen.
Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park is a Florida State Park in the Osceola National Forest, near the town of Olustee. The site of Florida's largest Civil War battle, the Battle of Olustee. The park is located 50 miles (80 km) west of Jacksonville and 15 miles (24 km) east of Lake City, on U.S. 90. It was one of the first parks in the ...
Location of Osceola County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Osceola County, Florida. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Osceola County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
The Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens or The Polasek is a historic site in Winter Park, Florida, United States. It is located at 633 Osceola Avenue on three acres overlooking Lake Osceola. On May 2, 2000, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
St. Cloud Heritage Museum is a history museum in downtown St. Cloud, Florida, Osceola County, Florida. It is housed in the Veterans Memorial Library building at 1012 Massachusetts Avenue. The museum is operated by the Woman's Club of St. Cloud and the City of St. Cloud.
American Association for State and Local History (2002), Directory of historical organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.), Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, ISBN 9780759100022 – via archive.org; 2022 National Census of History Organizations, American Association for State and Local History
Osceola County (/ ˌ ɒ s i ˈ oʊ l ə / AH-see-OH-lə) is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 388,656. [1] Its county seat is Kissimmee. [2] Osceola County is included in the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford, Fla. Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Osceola led the Seminole resistance to removal until he was captured on October 21, 1837, by deception, under a flag of truce, [3] when he went to a site near Fort Peyton for peace talks. [4]: 135 The United States first imprisoned him at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, then transported him to Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina.