Florida Road Trip (Central Florida Roadtrip)

Central Florida Road Trip visits the City of Sanford, originally named Mellonville. Located on Lake Monroe and the St. Johns River, Sanford's port helped shape the future of Central Florida. Learn how the Color barrier in baseball was supposed to be broken in Sanford; how one of Muhammed Ali's famous sayings was written by a Sanford man; and how one resident in a Sanford cemetery is not human.

Central Florida Road Trip visits the City of Orlando, originally named Jernigan. The City Beautiful is known for Disney World, but tourism actually started years before Disney's arrival. Learn about how the Wells Built Museum, Greenwood Cemetery, Tinker Field, the construction of I-4 and Disney, all played key roles in Orlando's history.

Central Florida Road Trip visits the City of Kissimmee, known for tourism and cowboys. Kissimmee's history includes the single largest landowner in the US, the Barber-Mizell family feud, the Silver Spurs Rodeo, the oldest operating Courthouse in the state and the oldest Hardware store in Florida. One of the main roads, Kings Highway, is named after the creator of the comic strip "Gasoline Alley."

Central Florida Road Trip visits the City of Cocoa Beach, known as Missile Town USA. This community's history revolves around the space industry entrenched itself into every aspect of life in this small Brevard County community. The space industry arrived in the late 1950s and only one man has reported on every manned space flight since. The Port is also one of the busiest in the world.

Central Florida Road Trip visits the City of Mount Dora. "The Festival City" is home to two of the longest running and largest outdoor events in the country. Mount Dora is home to the Catacombs, a huge underground bomb shelter; the oldest operating hotel in the state; one of the biggest box office busts in movie history; and a theatre that has been producing plays for some 70 years.

Central Florida Road Trip visits the City of New Smyrna Beach, a historical treasure. History abounds from the Sugar Mill Ruins to Old Fort Park; from Mayor Hannah Bonnet to Charles Dummet's grave, from the World's Safest Bathing Beach to the Shark Bite Capital of the World. The city is also known as an Arts community with ties to legendary artist Bob Ross.