>> I THINK THE STORY OF EATONVILLE STARTS THERE, IT' REALLY PEOPLWHE O HAD HAD TO DECIDE WHERE TO GO. EATONVILLE, FLORIDA, A TINY TOWN RICH WITH HISTORY. [7] The plans include a "new community" of 350 homes, apartments, retail businesses and restaurants. Historic images of Eatonville - WESH Channel 2 >> YOU ALWAYS HOPE THAT WHEN YOUR KIDS GO AWAY, THEY GO ON TO BE SUCCESSFUL. >> WE E PRAYERFUL THAT GOD WILL ALLOW US TO BUILD SOME SENIOR CITIZEN HOUSING IN THE BACK OF THE CHURCH TO HELP SENIOR CITIZENS HAVE A NICER PLACE TO STAY. THAT MEANS THAT WEVE CAPTURED THOSE REMNANTS OF HISTORY, BUT I WANT THE YOUNGER PEOPLE TOAY S , "HEY, WNHE I GET OLDER, I WANT TO LIVE HERE, I WANT TO STAY HERE." In what year was Eatonville founded? "We estimate over 50,000 campers and staff have called them home over the past 49 summers." blacks in grades 6-12 and taught children for over 100 years.[5]. The population was 2,845 at the 2020 census. I DONT KNOW WHATS GOING ON OV INER GERMANY, BUT SHE IS REALLY, REALLY POPULAR OVER IN GERMANY. It contains 48 historic buildings. The Robert Hungerford Normal and Industrial School was founded in 1897 to provide education for To keep expenses down, students were assigned various duties around the campus including jobs at the school's dairy, chicken coops, gardens and janitorial/maintenance of the institution's classrooms and buildings. Or you could find yourself at one of the Spanish courts on the coast where as long as you converted to Catholicism, they let you in the front door. >> THERE WERE 27 AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN WHO SNED THIG CHARTER, AND THEY WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THAT THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS ACCEPTED TO THE PEOPLE OF MAITLANDS WELL, THAT THEY HAD THE BACKING OF PROMINENT WHITE CITIZENS. This project includes updating drainage, the streetscape, and placing two large iconic gateways, which features the citys seal and as well as a clock. >> WE WANT TO SEE PROGRESS, WE WANT TSEE DEVELOPMENT, WE WELCOME ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING, JUST AS LONG AS THAT DEVELOPNTME DOESOT N HARM OUR HERITAGE, OUR CULTURE, OUR HISTORY. The problem was nobody would sell the land. THE GAME CHANGED HA-HA. Eatonville is an African American town and Zora is one of it's stars. OR YOU COULD FIND YOURSELF AT ONE OF THE SPANISH COURTS ON THE COAST WHERE AS LONG AS YOU , CONVERT TO CATHOLICISM, THEY LET YOU IN THE FRONT DOOR. I WANT TO SEE FKOL IN HOMES, INSTEAD OF RENTING. Buyers usually bought more than one lot to subsistence farm, giving freedmen the ability to own and farm their own private land. AND HE IMAGINED THAT FLORIDA HAD GREAT POTENTIAL AND THAT IT COULD BE THE MOST NORTHE ERNS OF THE SOUTHERN STATES. THEY PUT IN THE WO ARKNDHE T EFFORT THAT IT TOOK TO ESTABLISH A COMMUNITY WITH ITS OWN GOVERNMENT, WITH ITS OWN CULTURAL TIES, HISTORIC TIES. >> FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, MACEDONIA WORKED TO BRING IN THE TOWNS VERY FIRST CREDIT UNION. BUT IN A SMALL COMMUNITY LIKE EATONVILLE, YOU CAN ACTUALLY CALL THE MAYOR IF YOU HAVEN -- IF YOU ARE HAVING CONCERNS. SO, I HOPE THAT MY SON FINDS VALUE IN JUST KNOWING THAT IF YOU PUT IN A LITTLE BIT OF EFFORT AND A LITTLE BIT OF WORK, YOU CAN SEE YOUR DREAMS COME TO FRUITION. I WENT THROUGH A DIVORCE AND ALREADY OWNED THIS HOME. SHELDON: SO YOU GREW UP IN LAKE >> MARY. When the Hungerford School was incorporated into Eatonville, it covered 340 acres and made up 62% of the town, a dominant institution physically, culturally, and educationally. The PEC, or the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, has made its mission to do so in the Town that Freedom Built.Church leaders serve as pillars of EatonvilleBefore Eatonville became an incorporated town, its pillars came first. Juneteenth, which marks June 19, 1865, is now a federal holiday. IT HELP ME TRANSITION INTO THE MAN I AM TODAY. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.1 square miles (2.8km2), of which 1.0 square mile (2.6km2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26km2) (9.17%) is water. Described as where wildlife abounds and where the slightest frosts are almost unknown, this article advertised Eatonvilles low land prices and how freedmen could acquire them: five and ten tracts can be bought for five and ten dollars an acre lots to actual settler (colored): 44 x 100, can be bought for thirty-five dollars [in] cash; and fifty on time. Early developers like Mayor Clarke, who would eventually become postmaster and a general store owner in Eatonville, encouraged blacks around the state to move into the town. The remaining 100 acres (40ha) parcel was appraised in 2019 for $20 million, but the OCPS announced their intention to sell the land to a developer for $14 million on March 31, 2023. The St. Lawrence AME Church of Eatonville, Florida was founded in 1881 and is older than the Town of Eatonville. >> I WANT TO PAY HOMAGE TO THE PAST. Camp Arnold raises new 'Mountains' | Caring Magazine ITS THE PLACE THAT ROOTED HIM, MOLDED HIM, EVEN IF IT WASNT BY CHOICE. The Freedmens Bureau dissolved in 1869 and the federal army discontinued enforcement of elections. Eatonville leaders are looking back on the historical milestones and the big changes that swept through the area over the years. Many of Eatonville's buildings can be described as old-timey with a small-town charm.Small businesses operate as the heart and soul of EatonvilleWhile the Mad Crab restaurant in Eatonville is a nonstop door for customers from to-go and delivery service, most of owner Molene George's clients dont live in town. They were strong, diligent people and faithful neighbors forming a firm foundation to build a town. Several are related to the town's establishment as a home for African Americans and to its most famous former resident, Zora Neale Hurston. >> AND DESPITE NOT BEING " FAR NORT"H, SYDNEY ROSE MCCALL, WITH THE ZORA NEALE HURSTON MUSEUM SAYS FLORIDA WAS ACTUALLY ONE OF , THE PLACES BLACK PEOPLE WERE TRYING TO FLEE TO, BECAUSE IN FLORIDA YOU COULD TYPICALLY FIND , YOURSELF IN 1 OF 3 SITUATIONS. Eatonville, Florida - Wikipedia During the land frenzy, newly-freed slaves from throughout the south drifted into Central Florida. THEYVE ALWAYS CALLED HIM HA-HA. MUCH OF HER WRITINGS CENRSTE AROUND THE TOWN. But also from a white perspective, they were self-segregating and allowing this racial hierarchy to maintain its balance," McCall said. He imagined that Florida had great potential and that it could be the most northernized of the southern states. and more. >> THIS IS THE BACKYARD WHERE I PLAYED A LOT, ME AND MY BROTHERS. I WAS LOOKING AT THE S. ID HAD NO CLUE PSALMS STARTED WITH A P. >> BUT THAT SCHOOL WAS WHEREE H MET THE MAN WHO WOULD CHANGE HIS LI.FE FORMER PRINCIPAL DANTON THOMAS. >> EACH BATTLE FOUGHT, EACH BATTLE WON. ITS ASTOUNDING JUSTOT BE A PART OF THAT. >> DOUBLING THE SPACE AT "ZORAS PLACE" ON CLARKE STREET WOULD BE THE SITE OF THE HUB, PLUANS OVERNIGHT RESIDENCE FOR ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS, AND A CULTURAL HERITAGE TOURISM AND TRAINING FACITYLI COMMISSIONER EMILY BONILLA NOTED HOW HISTORIES HAVE BEEN HIDDEN OR LOST IN OTHER COMMUNITIES BECAUSE OF RACISM, BURNINGS, AND KILLINGS. IT WAS REALLY EYE-OPENING. ENWH YOU COME HERE, THE IDEA IS NOT THAT YOU ARE GOING TO ASSIMILATE OR THAT WE ARE GOING TO ASSIMILATE. One constant remains the same, though. AND HE IMAGINED THAT FLORIDA HAD GREAT POTENTIAL AND THAT IT COULD BE THE MOST NORTHERN ESYE OF THE SOUTHERN STATES. >> ALMOST EVERYONE SEEMS TO OWKN HASEAN CLINTON-DIX. >> I FELL IN LOVE WITH IT AND IT MAY GET A KICKSTART IN LIFE. >> BECAUSE EVERY TIME -- WOW, I DIDNT EXPECT THAT. Some settled around Lake Lily, then called St. Johns Hole, and worked for northerners who had built winter homes on the north shore of nearby Lake Maitland. "Eatonville really. AS GAIL PASCHALL-BROWN EXPLAS,IN THEY DONT WANT PROGRESS AT THE EXPENSE OF PRESERVING THE PAST. eatonville-wa.gov. >> LOOKING TO THFUE TURE. The problem was nobody would sell the land. SURROUND BYED GREENERY, THIS IS THE OLDEST STRUCTURE IN EATONVILLE. And despite being an overwhelmingly Black town, racism still penetrated their community, like when Ku Klux Klan members showed up at one of the towns parades in the middle of the day without their masks. >> THIS WILL EFFECTIVELY TURN INTO A BIG OPEN-AIR DINING ROOM. >> RECENTLY FREED BLACK PEOPLE WHO MADE THEIR WAY TO CENTRAL FLORIDA OFTEN FOUND WORK IN CITRUS GROVES, AS WAS THE CASE FOR JOE CRKLA, WHO, ALONG WITH OTHERS CAME TO THE AREA WITH THE , IDEA THEYD BEGIN A COLONY FOR COLORED PEOPLE. >> THE ONLY MAN IN THE HOUSE, WITH 26TI SRS, -- WITH TWO SISTERS. Eatonville is first and oldest African-American incorporated WHAT ME ITAD SURVEVI WAS THIS SENSE PRIDE THAT THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE TOOK IN IT. Residents regularly visited nearby lakes for fishing, boating, and picnicking. The Salvation Army Camp Arnold in Eatonville, Wash., erected 12 A-frame cabins as "temporary" housing in 1966. SHE RETURNED HOME TO EATONVILLE AFTER GRADUATING FROM FAMU, AND SHE AND HER HUSBAND PLANO T RAISE THEIR SON IN THE TOWN. CLINTON DIX, ROUND ONE. AND ITS THE HANDS OF THIS SMALL TOWN THAT HELPED PUSH HIM TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL FOOTBALL CAREER. THOSE WERE THEIR WORDS. VISIT NCICAP.ORG]. And so this was entirely an African American-founded Township. [7] Since the original purchase, OCPS has petitioned the courts multiple times to reduce the number of acres required to be used for the education of black children from 300 to 100 with OCPS receiving almost $8 million. IS THAT RIGHT FOR EATONVILLE? . Eatonville lies between two lakes; to the north is Lake Sabelia and to the south is Lake Bell. St. Lawrence AME Church was founded in 1881. >> 16-YEAR-OLD ALEXANDER MCMILLION HOPES TO DO E OPPOSITE AFTER HE GOES TO COLLEGE. The structure was built by neighbors and other community citizens to accommodate seventy-five and had a beginning membership of one adult and eight children. CLINTON-DIX GOT INTO TROUBLE AND WAS RETAINED IN THE SIXTH GRADE FROM LOCKHART MIDDLE SCHOOL TO GET HIM BACK ON TRACK. And despite being an overwhelmingly Black town, racism still penetrated their community, like when Ku Klux Klan members showed up at one of the towns parades in the middle of the day without their masks. STEWART: H HAS TRAVELED THE COUNTRY PLAYING IN THE NFL, BUT HEREN IAT EONVILLE IS HOME FOR HA-HA CLINTON DIX. TRAFFIC SNARLS EASILY, AS VEHICLES NAVIGATE THE TWO LANE ROAD. I SAID, "NO, DONT DESTROY IT, BUILD ON IT." They produced farms, built schools, created businesses, had children, and buried loved ones. THE TOWN ACTUALLY STARTED AT THIS CHURCH. SHELDON: RUTHI IS CARRYING O HER FAMILYS LEGA. STEWART: BIG NAME CORPORATIONS CALL EATONVILLE HOME. Named after the celebrated writer and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston, this museum features old photos of the town of Eatonville. ONCE I REALIZED THAT I AM A BLACK MALINE EATONVILLE, IN A LIKE INCORPORATED TOWN THAT I DIDNT KNOW MUCH ABOUT AASID K, THE OLDER I GET, THE MORIE REALIZE HOW MUCH, HOW RICH THIS PLACE IS. "Something we can take a script in our political world. SUMMER: HE GREW UP HERE, WENT TO SCHOOL HE,ER AND NEVER MISSES AN OPPORTUNITY TO COME BACK. TO REALLY BE ABLE TO SEE EATONVILLE AS AN INTERNATIONAL DESTINATION FOR CULTAL HERITAGE, TOURISM, AND ALL THINGS THAT REALLY RESONATE THWI THE CREATIVE MIND. >> THERES NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE IT. What made it survive though, was this sense of pride that the people who live there took in it, French said. >> BCKLA PEOPLE, THEY CREATED THIS CITY FOR BLACK PEOPLE TOE B HERE AND STAY. Its the day slaves in Galveston, Texas, finally learned theyd been freed more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. AND THE MAIN FOCUS IS KEEPING PEOPLE WHO OWN HOMES IN EATONVILLE IN THEIR HOMES AND PLANNING HOW THEIR HOMES WILL STAY IN FAMILY HANDS. >> THEIR ELDERS SAY IT TAK AES VILLAGE TO SAVE AND SUSTAIN. >> UP UNTIL MY GRAPANDRENTS BOTH PAEDSS AWAY, WE HOSTED COOKOUTS HERE EVERY WEEKEND. Established in 1889 and modeled after Alabamas Tuskegee Institute with financial support from Booker T. Washington. Eatonville also became home to the areas best school for black children, the Robert Hungerford Industrial School. [4] As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 6,307. >> ITS NOT OFTEN YOU HAVE A TOWN WHERE YOU HAVE 70 PEOPLE PASS TO THE TOWN EVERY DAY. >> TO NAME EATONLLVIE AFTER THIS MAYOR, I THINK THAT WAS PROTECTIVE. Booker T. Washington even writing about it in his work called The Negro in Business where he features Eatonville as a model of the African American entrepreneurial spirit. SUERMM HOWEVER, NOT EVERYONE IS ON BOARD WHEN IT COMES TO DEVELOPMENT. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE VISIBLE. With the goal of teaching vocational skills to boys and girls, the school also helped students tend crops, raise poultry, prepare their own meals, and learn trades for income. WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE IT OUT AND DESTROY. SHDOEL YOU LIVED IN D.C. SHES BEEN LIVING IN THIS HOUSE FOR OVER 50 YEARS. >> AND WE CAN FORGET THE ANNUAL ZORA FT, NAMED AFTER THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED OFFER ZORA NEALE HURSTON, WHOSE FACE IS SPRING GO THROUGH OUT THE COMMUNITY, ALL OF WHICH IS BEEN, BREATHING HISTORY OF A TINY TOWN ON FREEDOM, BUILT BY FREED MEN, JUST TWO DECADES AFTER BEING EMANCIPATED. Existing residents claim the new development would wipe out the historic community and violate the land agreement, so locals are in a fight with the school board. The town of Eatonville was incorporated in 1887. THINGS EATONVILLE CURRENTLY DOESNT HAVE. It's really people who had had to decide where to go, French said. When HaHa Clinton-Dix walks down the streets of Eatonville, almost everyone seems to know his name. A brief history of Eatonville: The Town That Freedom Built, BUT EATONVILLE IS SO MUCH MORE. >> WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO LEAD THIS CHURCH THAT HAS SUCH EPDE HISTORY IN THE TOWN OF EATONVILLE? >> WITHOUT LOSING ITS PAST. Clinton-Dix took his talents to the NFL draft, picked up by the Green Bay Packers in the first round in 2014. BUT FOR THE CORNER BACK, MAKING IT INTO THE PROS WASNT ENOUGH. Eatonville celebrates 125 years of history, Colleagues share favorite memories of longtime WESH 2 News journalist Amanda Dukes. EVERY TIME IOM CE OUT HERE, I CAN VISUALLY SEE HER HANGING OUT THE CLOSE. THIS HOUSE IS E SECOND-OLDEST STRUCTURE IN EATONVILLE BUT IT , IS THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS BN RESTORED AND IT IS BEING MAINTAINED. >> CLINTON-DIX HAS A DREAM, A DREAM THAT INCLUDES BUILDI UNG THE TOWN OF EATONVILLE. Present-day Eatonville is a meld of modern society and Old Florida. AND DESPE BNGEI A YOU CANT BLACK TOWN YOU CANT FORGET , ABOUT THE RAMPANT RACISM OFTEN PENETRATING THE MOSTLY BLACK COMMUNITY LIKE WHEN KKK MEMBERS SH, OWED UP AT ONE OF THE TOWN' PARADES. Twelve of these works are at the Maitland Art Center in the adjacent town of Maitland. >> WELCOME TO EATOILLENV POST OFFICE, HOW CAN I HELP YOU TODAY? Eatonville, Florida, Was Home To Author Zora Neale Hurston AND NOW WE ARE ABLE TO FLOW, AND WHILE WE ARE FLOWING, BE ABLE TO IMPACT PEOPLES LIVES. IT IS NOW CALD LE"THE THOMAS HOUS"E. BUT IT DIDNT ALWAYS HAVE THAT NAME. I-4 was slapped right through Eatonville in the 50s, but it was the countys plans to expand the citys main thoroughfare, Kennedy Boulevard, to five lanes that residents felt would destroy their towns historical character and charm. The scarcity of building supplies, food, and tools hindered the free blacks ability to create their own separate communities. >> BUT THEN, ANOTHER FLIGHT -- ANOTHER FIGHT. IT IS USED TO BRING ECONOMIC GROWTH, TO SOME EXTENT, TO EATONVILLE. Between 1865 and 1900, there were approximately 400 black towns, settlements, and enclaves. Residents in Eatonville young and old truly know each other, and their roots run deep.Kids growing up and returning home to EatonvilleAs kids become adults, a lot of them want to leave where they grew up or where their families have roots, and Eatonville is no different. Now, almost 50 years later, four new cabins have replaced them. So what that means is that it was the oldest Black town to be recognized by the United States government as a self-governing, self-determining Black community, McCall said.There were 27 African American men who signed that charter. SHELN:DO HISTORY THAT IS STILL ON DISPLAY. >> THE MOSELEY HOUSE MUSEUM OPENED IN 2000 THANKS TO THE CA RE OF ZETA PHI BETA SORORITY INCORPORATED. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE WILLING TO DO SOMETHING FOR THE COMMUNITY. All across the United States. Eatonville has no gas station, supermarket or drug store; only a Family Dollar. >> HAS BOTH PASTORS LOOK TO THE FUTURE OF EATONVILLE, THEIR MAIN GOAL IS TO BE MORE THAN A LEADER OF A CONGREGATION, BUT A LEADER IN THE COMMUNITY.
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