West Orange Chamber of Commerce representatives held a ribbon-cutting for the grand opening of Matthew’s Hope Chest Creations in Winter Garden.
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A Historical Look at Winter Garden
Cherishing the Past While Progressing Into the Future
by Debra Wood
One of the most successful efforts at embracing history in Central Florida, downtown Winter Garden has become an active, engaging area full of shops, restaurants, a hotel and a theater.
Men, women and children work the fields in the 1900s. (Photo courtesy of the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation)
The city formed a community redevelopment agency in 1992, the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation was created in 1994, and the History Research and Education Center opened in 2015.