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Veritable Garden of EdenWinter Park, close by Orlando, gives one the impression of actual exclusiveness. It is there where Irving Bachelor, the noted writer, makes his home and it is also the seat of Rollins college and innumerable fine Residences, while all about an air of culture and refinement that one of our party said, lt;rWhy, Winter Park gives the impression that it is the garden of Eden.” And within a short distance from Winter Park is Ocoee, pretty little place, where its people were out in holiday attire to greet the editorial party as the tour took them through the town, which claims to be the ofily city in Florida to be entirely without a colored man or woman. When asked why such* an unusal -thing in a southern community, quick came the reply that the negroes were ~alL driven out last November following a race riot on election day. As particulars of the riot were related, one felt satisfied that real southern ire was aroused and the negroes decamped after a number of their homes had been burned and they were convinced that Ocoee was not the place for them to tarry any longer.
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Harvard Herald
Harvard, Illinois, US
Thu, Apr 21, 1921
Page 8
Full Page
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