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Welcome to the See A Room Network of page for information on hotels in Key West and other areas. We produce the worlds best virtual tours for you to plan your vacation. Your Orlando Vacation can be filled with Things to do. The easiest way to set up your stay may be to purchase Orlando Vacation Packages which include Orlando Hotels or maybe Orlando Condos, which can be a way to bring the whole family down to Florida for big events. Now everyone in the party can visit our site and get their own Orlando Hotel and some may prefer to stay in their own Orlando Accommodations that can easily be found here. You may love our sunshine state paradise so much a look at Orlando Real Estate might just be in order. The entire market has been literally booming for many years. If you're looking for a great place to add your URL link for free we offer great reciprocal link exchange program for increased link popularity with Orlando Link Exchange. A lot of vacationers actually purchase Orlando Vacation Rentals to use part of the year and rent out the other times of the year. Many fishing captains are available for charters and some will pick up from your Orlando Resorts and take you right to the boat. Our Orlando Attractions are great, and most are very close to nice Orlando Restaurants or your favorite Orlando Bars. Everything you ever wanted to know about the entire state can be found on our network of websites. Some historians date Orlando's name to around 1836 when a soldier named Orlando Reeves allegedly died in the area, during the war against the Seminole Indian tribe. It seems, however, that Orlando Reeves (sometimes Rees) operated a sugar mill and plantation about 30 miles (50 km) to the north at Spring Garden in Volusia County, and pioneer settlers simply found his name carved into a tree and assumed it was a marker for his grave site. They then referred to the area as "Orlando's grave" and later simply "Orlando." During the Second Seminole War, the U.S. Army established an outpost at Fort Gatlin, a few miles south of the modern downtown, in 1838. But it was quickly abandoned when the war came to an end. Prior to being known as its current name, Orlando was known as Jernigan, after the first permanent settler, cattleman Aaron Jernigan, who acquired land along Lake Holden by the terms of the Armed Occupation Act of 1842. But most pioneers did not arrive until after the Third Seminole War in the 1850s. Most of the early residents made their living by cattle ranching. Orlando remained a rural backwater during the American Civil War, and suffered greatly during the Federal Blockade. The Reconstruction Era brought a population explosion, which led to the city's incorporation in 1875. The period from 1875 to 1895 is remembered as Orlando's "Gilded Era," when it became the hub of Florida's citrus industry. But a great freeze in 1894-1895 forced many owners to give up their independent groves, thus consolidating holdings in the hands of a few "citrus barons" which shifted operations south, primarily around Lake Wales in Polk County. There are a couple of notable homesteaders in the area. First is the Curry family. On their property in east Orlando there was the Econlockahatchee River and every time it had to be crossed the settlers would "ford the river". This leads its name to one of Orlando's roads, Curry Ford Rd. Also, just south of the airport in the Boggy Creek area was 150 acres of property homesteaded in the late 1800's by the Ward family. This property is still owned by the Ward family and can be seen from flights out of MCO southbound immediately on the south side of SR-417. Orlando, as Florida's largest inland city, became a popular resort during the years between the Spanish-American War and World War I. The city was also host to several sanitariums, which serves as the basis for its hospitals today.

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