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"…You should see the hotel being built here (all wood of course) with about 3 or 4 hundred rooms in it, all for the northerners who want to come and winter in and they say every room is engage already and this is at present a most out of the way place with just two stores and a station (train)…" – Excerpt from a letter, Helen F. Warner to her Mother dated August 14, 1885, Winter Park, Florida.
"…I arrived in this city about 9A.M. And rented a room at $2.50 per wk – I take meals at Restaurants…We obtained lodgings at a Restaurant paying for a bed room + Parlor well furnished a fire + - 75¢ for the night (37½¢ each) and 25¢/a meal…The cottages are mostly owned by persons in the North who spend their winters here. The cottages are neat and the one main street (New Haven Ave.) is wide leaving spacious lawns in front of cottages. I am writing from Grand View Cottage…H[arry] + I walked up to Sarno + by the landlord were shown... >>>
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