Cheap Car Hire Sanford : History to Sanford
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Sanford : Cheap car hire Sanford sits
on the south shore of Lake Monroe at the head of the navigation on the St. Johns
River. During the Seminole Wars of the 1830's, the area was the site of an U.S.
Army post name Fort Mellon. As settlers moved into the area, the town of Mellonville
was established. With the advent of commercial steamboat service, the town became
a distribution point for goods essential for the growth of Central Florida. When
Orange County was created in 1845, Mellonville became the county seat. In 1870,
Henry Shelton Sanford purchased the land west of Mellonville. He planned a new city
"the Gate City of South Forida," which he believed would become the transportation
hub for all of southern Florida.
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Sanford : In 1877, the city of Sanford was incorporated and Mellonville
was annexed six years later.In 1880, Henry S. Sanford formed a land company in London
to encourage investments in the new city. That same year constyruction began on
the South Florida Railroad with a terminus in Sanford.
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