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Kenansville School | Photo © 2011 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Kenansville School

Kenansville is a small community located just 12 miles north of Yeehaw Junction and 27 miles south of St. Cloud. It was given the name Kenansville after Mary Lily Kenan Flagler, the wife of Henry...

Venturella Resort | Photo © 2009 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Venturella Resort and Spa

  A promotional photo for Riu Orlando. The Venturella Resort and Spa started out as the Riu Orlando Hotel in 1988, a 3-star hotel with the luxuries of a 4-star luxury resort, at least that’s...

ACCO Plant | Photo © 2015 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

ACCO Aerated Concrete Systems Plant

  Photo of the facility after its closure The ACCO Aerated Concrete Systems plant in Apopka, Florida was first built in 1969, when General Electric opened a new factory as part of GE’s lighting...

Brewster | Photo © 2007 Jim Pike

The Town of Brewster

Photo Credit: Florida Photographic Collection, 1920s – The Brewster power plant The town of Brewster was founded in 1910 to accommodate the workers at the time who spent the day working at the...

Popash School | Photo © 2007 Tantrum Dan

Popash School

A view of the school during its operation; circa 1925. The town of Popash began in the 1850s, establishing a post office in 1879 and the New Hope Baptist Church soon after. The town got its name from...

V. Guerra, Diaz & Company | Photo © 2014 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

V. Guerra, Diaz Cigar Company

V. Guerra, Diaz Cigar Company Later known as the V. Guerreri Cigar Factory, this three-story 27,462 square foot cigar factory located at 201 N 26th Street in East Tampa was built in 1899 for the...

S.H. Kress and Co. Building | Photo © 2011 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

S.H. Kress and Co. Building

S. H. Kress & Co. was a chain of “five and dime” department stores in various parts of the United States, which began operations in 1896. Five and dime stores were the original dollar...

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Old Union Depot Hotel

  The Depot Union Hotel was for sale for years but never attracted any buyers to try and restore it, 2008. Photo by Bill Rogers The Union Hotel and Cafe, better known as the Old Union Depot Hotel...

Dixie Walesbilt Hotel | Photo © 2016 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Dixie Walesbilt Hotel

Dixie Walesbilt Hotel The Dixie Walesbilt Hotel is one of many skyscrapers built in the 1920s that still stand today. Since its construction, it has undergone several renovations and name changes...

Splendid China | Photo © 2015 Robin Hanson

Splendid China

The idea for Splendid China here in Florida was that of Josephine Chen, a Taiwanese-American school teacher and real estate developer. The thought was the park would be a great means for cultural...

Osowaw Junction | Photo © 2011 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Osowaw Junction

A roadside fruit stand along US 441 In 1914, a train station was established at this location, north of Fort Drum along the Kissimmee Valley Extension of the Florida East Coast Railroad and several...

Castle Hill Mansion | Photo by sfldp, 2012

Castle Hill Mansion

Castle Hill Mansion, 1980s. Photo courtesy of Wes Smith, son of Larry and Charlene Smith, the last owners of the property North of John’s Lake in Clermont is a wooded area known as “Castle Hill”...

Colony Plaza Hotel | Photo © 2008 Tantrum_Dan

Colony Plaza Hotel

The Colony Plaza Hotel was originally built as a Ramada Inn in 1968 in Ocoee, Florida. The hotel contained a a lounge, swimming pool, tennis courts, and meeting rooms. It was also the first hotel in...

Belleview Biltmore Hotel | Photo by James Davidson, 2012

Belleview Biltmore Hotel

Undated photograph of the Belleview Biltmore Hotel The Belleview Hotel, as it was initially known, was constructed by Henry B. Plant as a resort destination to boost tourist travel on his railroad...

Mount Dora Catacombs | Photo © 2006 Richard Stayton

The Mount Dora Catacombs

Pat Frank’s “Alas, Babylon” first published in 1959 Alas, Babylon was written in 1959 by Pat Frank and was one of the first apocalyptic novels of the nuclear age. It deals with the...

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