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Cheap Car Rental Orlando -> History of Orlando
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In the early 1800s, the Seminoles fought two bitter wars to retain their land.
When the second of those ended in 1842, Orlando's history began. Settlers
followed soldiers into Central Florida, and a settlement grew around an
old Army post known as Fort Gatlin, located at what is now Lake Eola
Park in downtown Orlando. Originally named Jernigan after an early
settler, cheap car rental Orlando changed its name in 1857 to honor soldier Orlando
Reeves, who, while on sentinel duty at the fort, was felled in 1835
by an Indian arrow as he raced to warn of an oncoming raid. Orlando
was born on July 21, 1875, population 85. Orlando's Three C's In
Orlando's early days, the three C's drove commerce in the city:
cattle, cotton and citrus.
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Soon, tired settlers turned to cotton, a considerably less
threatening crop, and the town became the center of a thriving
cotton industry. When the U.S. Civil War began, however, workers
moved away to pick cotton throughout the South, replacing soldiers
away at war. In 1871, a hurricane roared through the town,
destroying most of the crop.
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