Every January for more than a quarter century, the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community has celebrated Zora Neale ...

He was the brother of Joseph Clark, who several years earlier started Eatonville, Florida’s first black town in neighboring Orange County. Goldsboro was composed mainly of laborers, railroad ...

Angie Gardner, Eatonville ... for a town founded by freed slaves. The site was once home to the Robert F. Hungerford Normal and Industrial School, a private boarding school for Black students ...

A recent ruling by the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court granted judgment in favor of the School Board of Orange County, Fla., as it pertained to the remaining acres of the Hungerford Property.

Among that list is the Central Florida city of Eatonville. In August 1887, it became the first ... Black municipality in the United States when a group of 27 black men incorporated the town.

EATONVILLE, Fla. — Some homeowners in the town ... Florida makes home transformations like this one possible by seeking grants and working with community partners. The application process is on ...