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Opening Reception for Colonial History Exhibit at Museum of Seminole County History
Date and Time
Thursday Jul 31, 2025
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM EDT
Thursday, July 31, 2025 @ 430pm-630pm
Location
Museum of Seminole County History
300 Eslinger Way
Sanford, FL 32771
Fees/Admission
Free and open to the public!
Description
Please join us for a reception to celebrate the opening of the museum's most recent temporary exhibit, "Fighting Florida: Legacies of the Colonial Era in Central Florida."
The exhibit features new research and artifacts related to the influential figures who left their mark during the colonial era on the area that would eventually become Seminole County! From Spanish missionaries to British surveyors, revolutionaries, and religious groups, visitors are invited to travel back in time by exploring this exhibit and discovering their stories.
The highlight of this exhibit is a new 1765 map that was discovered by researchers in 2012 at the National Archives in Kew in Great Britain. The 24 foot map was created by German Surveyor William Gerar de Brahm and is thought to be the oldest known map of the area of Seminole County. It focuses specifically on the areas of Lake Grant (modern day Lake Monroe), Lake Beresford (modern day Lake Jesup), and the Upper Lake (modern day Lake Harney) and some of the first surveyed land owners in what would become the cities of Winter Springs, Oviedo, and the village of Geneva in Seminole County
The reception is being co-sponsored by the Seminole Cultural Arts Council and the Seminole County Historical Society. It will serve as an unofficial kick of to the Seminole250 celebrations!
Please join us at the Museum of Seminole County History on Thursday, July 31st from 430pm to 630pm. It is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served!
The exhibit features new research and artifacts related to the influential figures who left their mark during the colonial era on the area that would eventually become Seminole County! From Spanish missionaries to British surveyors, revolutionaries, and religious groups, visitors are invited to travel back in time by exploring this exhibit and discovering their stories.
The highlight of this exhibit is a new 1765 map that was discovered by researchers in 2012 at the National Archives in Kew in Great Britain. The 24 foot map was created by German Surveyor William Gerar de Brahm and is thought to be the oldest known map of the area of Seminole County. It focuses specifically on the areas of Lake Grant (modern day Lake Monroe), Lake Beresford (modern day Lake Jesup), and the Upper Lake (modern day Lake Harney) and some of the first surveyed land owners in what would become the cities of Winter Springs, Oviedo, and the village of Geneva in Seminole County
The reception is being co-sponsored by the Seminole Cultural Arts Council and the Seminole County Historical Society. It will serve as an unofficial kick of to the Seminole250 celebrations!
Please join us at the Museum of Seminole County History on Thursday, July 31st from 430pm to 630pm. It is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served!
