User:Jacason
Title: the real eatonville
Eatonville, Washington, REAL!!!
Real Eatonville | |
|---|---|
| Eatonville Town Hall Eatonville Town Hall | |
 Location in Orange County and the state of Florida | |
| Coordinates: 28°37′7″N 81°23′0″W / 28.61861°N 81.38333°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Florida |
| County | Orange |
| Incorporated (Town) | 1887 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Eddie Cole |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.12 sq mi (2.90 km2) |
| • Land | 0.99 sq mi (2.56 km2) |
| • Water | 0.13 sq mi (0.34 km2) |
| Elevation | 95 ft (29 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 2,159 |
| • Estimate (2016)[2] | 2,277 |
| • Density | 2,302.33/sq mi (889.26/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code | 32751 |
| Area code | 407 |
| FIPS code | 12-19650[3] |
| GNIS feature ID | 0282054[4] |
| Website | www |
Eatonville is a town in Orange County, Florida, United States, six miles north of Orlando. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee metropolitan statistical area. The town includes the Eatonville Historic District.
Incorporated on August 15, 1887, it was one of the first self-governing all-black municipalities in the United States. Such towns were often created because local town and county police forces refused to protect black communities.[5] The population was 2,159 at the 2010 census.[6]
Noted author Zora Neale Hurston grew up in Eatonville, which she featured in many stories. In 1990 the town founded the Zora Neale Hurston Museum of Fine Arts. Every winter the town stages the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities. A library named for her opened in January 2004.
Artist Jules Andre Smith has done a series of paintings depicting life in Eatonville during the 1930s and 1940s. Twelve of these works are at the Maitland Art Center in the adjacent town of Maitland.
Eatonville is home to WESH and WKCF, two television stations serving the Orlando television market.
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- ^ "Alabama's oldest black city fading away". Lodi News-Sentinel. May 26, 2009. p. 12. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
- ^ "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Eatonville town, Florida". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Archived from the original on September 11, 2013. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
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