By Rick Kilby from the Fall 2025 Edition of Reflections Magazine The infamous Great Freeze of 1894-1895, which devastated the Orlando area’s citrus crop, was an enormous setback for the young city. It took fifteen years to recover, but Orlando’s population still doubled from 1910 to 1920, to over 20,000.

By William S. Morgan V from the Fall 2025 Edition of Reflections Magazine Few people traveling along busy Edgewater Drive in Orlando’s College Park neighborhood are aware there used to be a cemetery across from the modern Incarnation Catholic Church. It was established in 1906, after the death of Irish

On social media, history can be remembered, misremembered, and argued over in real time. By Sarah M. Boye On the evening of May 8, 1981, the ground near the corner of West Fairbanks Avenue and South Denning Drive in Winter Park began to collapse. A sycamore tree was suddenly pulled

By Bennett Lloyd, from the Spring 2026 edition of Reflections Magazine In 1763, the British Empire finally achieved one of its long-standing goals: removal of the rival French from the great North American contest. The French and Indian War concluded in Britain’s favor, leaving it with French cessions from Quebec

By Cheyenne Stastyshyn from the Spring 2026 Edition of Reflections Magazine A veteran, community builder, and keeper of history, Dorothy Turner Johnson exemplified a life shaped by service and sustained by purpose. The year 2026 marks the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. As we