A SOMBER MARK ON MT. DORA'S HISTORY

Mount Dora's cup of charm no doubt runneth over.  However, there is a sad piece of history that made it all possible.   This tainted sliver of the past isn't immortalized with a plaque or bronze statue and the episode rarely gets more than a paragraph written about it.

  In the early 1920's, a decade after the city's incorporation, some white residents believed the city could draw wealthy tourists from the Northeast and implemented the Mount Dora Redevelopment Project.  That was the sugary term for mandating the removal of  African-Americans.  Read more...

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