Citrusland

A SECOND EDITION: More history at a more affordable price America's Paradise disintegrated over the winter of 1894-95 Florida's Great Freeze of that season destroyed not only the State's record-setting orange crop, it wiped out as well all the ambitious dreams of many of the wealthiest individuals in the world. Learn of their stories as you journey aboard ORANGE BELT RAILWAY with two of America's renowned railroaders. Racing along at a top speed of nearly 6 mph, meet the men and women, dreamers who risked it all during the 1880's in to develop the wilderness of Orange County's western corridor. With stops at Sylvan Lake; Paola; Island Lake; Glen Ethel; Palm Springs; Forest City; Toronto; Lakeville; Clarcona; Crown Point; Winter Garden and Oakland, you will experience a history of this region never before told. "Multitudes," said resident Benjamin M. Robinson of the freeze, "abandoned their groves and homes, in some cases leaving tables set and beds unmade, and went away." CitrusLAND: Ghost Towns & Phantom Trains is their story