How Did Orlando and Disney Originate?
Last minute vacation home owner, Terry Gale, sent in some fascinating facts about the origins of Orlando and Disney.
Orlando, Florida, the world’s biggest playground, was named in honour of Orlando Reeves, an army sentry killed during the first Seminole War.
In early 60s, Walt Disney’s secretly and anonymously bought thousands of acres of farmland, orange groves, and swamp marshes to build a theme park where he envisioned an oasis where travellers could take their families and live out the kind of fantasies he had as a child.
Today his dreams draw more than forty million visitors a year.
Read the complete article on the origins of Orlando and Disney.
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