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When the Europeans arrived, the Mayacas and the Joro were living around Lake Monroe. However, by 1760, these tribes were annihilated by war and disease and replaced the Seminole. The United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1821, but the Seminole War delayed the settlement. In 1835, the Seminole burned down the port of Palatka on the St. John's River, an important waterway between central Florida and the east coast. As a result, the army garrison was placed near the trading post on the south side of Lake Monroe, which is higher than the above. A log wall called Camp Monroe was attacked on February 8, 1837 and was reinforced and renamed as a melon fort.

President Zachary Taylor has built a road to link a series of defense nets from Lake Monroe to Fort Brook (now Tampa City). In 1842, Daniel Stewart established a town of Melonville around Fort Mellon. In 1845, Florida became the state of the United States of America, and Melonville became the district office of Orange County. It was formerly called Mosquito County, and the County Office was located in a place called Enterprise crossing a lake. It was in 1869 that orange trees were planted and canned factories were built. In 1870, Henry Shelton Sanford purchased 12,548 acres (50.78 km²) of land west of Melonville and designed the town of Sanford. He believed that Sanford would be a traffic hub and called it the "entrance to South Florida."

A group of Swedish people, who came to Sweden on steam ships in 1871, introduced apprenticeship into the country in order to build a new city with hard labor, cut up the subtropical wilderness and plant oranges on the street. It was incorporated in 1877 and its population exceeded 100. In 1883, he absorbed the melon building. The South Florida Railway connected from Sanford to Tampa, and then the Jacksonville Tampa and Key West Railway connected from Sanford to Jacksonsonville, the world's largest orange export port. President Chester A. Arthur, who arrived on a steamship in April 1883, spent a week on vacation at a hotel called Sanford House on the shore of the lake.

In 1887, the city was exposed to a great fire, and in the following year, yellow fever spread throughout Florida. From 1894 to 1895, a cold wave hit Florida and the citrus industry collapsed. Farmers tried to diversify their vegetables, such as growing them. Celery was planted for the first time in 1896, and by 1974 the nickname Celery City was given.

On December 1, 1891, a merchant William Clark and 19 African american voters established a town called Goldsboro on the south side of the city.

20th century

In 1911, the town of Sanford Heights was separated from the city because it did not agree to the administrative services of Sanford. This has raised concerns that the expansion of Sanford will be restricted by surrounding towns such as Goldsboro, Georgetown and Sanford Heights. Florida State Council and Mayor of Sanford Forest Lake have made efforts to enact a law that would deprive Sanford Heights of the power to incorporate Sanford independently. Goldsboro was also targeted by Lake Mayor, and the leaders of Goldsboro began a campaign to send letters to local newspapers. On April 6, 1911, the Sanford City Council adopted a resolution to merge Goldsboro, and on April 26, the State Council passed a proposal to put Goldsboro into the Sanford City and reorganize it.

In 1913, Sanford became the district office of Seminole County, which was separated from Orange County. Until 1940, agriculture remained dominant in the city's economy.

Naval Air Corps

In 1942, the Sanford Naval Air Base was established, and the training of fighter planes such as Lockheed PV-1, Lockheed Hudson, Grumman F4F and Gramman F6F was conducted. It was in its prime from 1943 to 1945 when 360 officers, 1,500 non-commissioned officers and 150 Navy Women's Reserve Corps were members of the Seiola Remote Training Complex, and an auxiliary airport known as an Oseola Remote Training Center was located around Lake Harney in the east. In 1946, the known wartime regime was dissolved and reduced, but in 1950, it was returned to active duty due to the Korean War and the Cold War. A construction plan to redevelop Douglas A-3 and North American A-5 as a base for jet-borne aircraft was later carried out. In the middle of the 1960s, it reached its peak again, and nearly 4,000 soldiers were deployed, including aircraft interim repair facilities, Navy Medical Office, Marine Corps Barracks, and RA-5C model change troops. In addition, RA-5C's nine squadron can be deployed on aircraft carriers that regularly expand into the Mediterranean and the Pacific.

The Vietnam War was expensive and domestic expenditures related to the Great Society policy of President Lyndon Johnson have revealed in 1967 that Sanford's base would become one of the mainland military facilities closed by the Pentagon in the United States. Flight training has been shrinking rapidly since the First Scouts and Attack Air Corps was moved to Albany Naval Air Base in Georgia. This made all the military men and their families leave, and the economy of Sanford and Seminole County deteriorated significantly. In 1969, the Federal General Procurement Office submitted a waiver certificate to Sanford City, which was renamed Sanford Airport and refurbished as an airport for general aviation. After that, he repeatedly changed his name to Sanford Regional Airport, Central Florida Regional Airport, and in 1995, he started commercial air service, and in the following year he became Orlando Sanford International Airport. Two monuments in the airport tell that the base existed. The Sanford Naval Air Base Memorial Park was opened on May 2003 to commemorate the death of the Japanese military commanders. At the entrance to the terminal, restored North American A-5, which was rented from the National Naval Air Museum, is on display.

Disney World

When the Walt Disney World Resort opened in October 1971, the economy of Central Florida shifted from military, aerospace and defense industries to tourism, service and housing development, mainly in Orlando. Because Sanford once excelled as the center of trade, old commercial facilities and dwellings were left, and live auctions, where Saroga-doki hung down, created shade in the streets.

baseball field

From Lake Monroe to the south along Melonville Avenue is Historic Sanford Memorial Stadium. It is within a mile of downtown. The stadium is near the former Sanford Field, which was built in 1926. A new stadium was built in 1951 as a spring training facility for the New York Giants. Star players from many major leagues, including Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, Tim Raines and David Ectein, played at the stadium. Jackie Robinson belonged to the Daytona Beach's home-based Montreal Royals' affiliated team and Sanford Field was the first stadium to play in the AAA-class International League games.

Sanford has latitude 28 degrees 47 minutes 22 seconds north and longitude 81 degrees 16 minutes 32 seconds west and latitude 28.78944 degrees north and longitude 81.27556 degrees west/ 28.78944; -81.27556. According to the population census, the total area of the city is 26.5 square miles (68.63 km²), of which land is 22.96 square miles (59.47 km²) and water area is 3.54 square miles (9.17 km ²). The city borders Lake Mary City in the southwest, and Lake Monroe and Valley City in the north.

climate

The following is demographic data from the 2010 census.

Historically, Sanford had a port on the St. John's River, the center of traffic in central Florida. Orlando Sanford International Airport has brought international and regional aviation services to central Florida. Sanford is the terminal of Amtrak's auto train. AutoTrain transports cars and passengers on the east coast between Lawton and Sanford, located 40km south of Washington D.C.

Sanford is located between Daytona Beach and Orlando on Interstate Highway 4. The Florida State Route 417 (Central Florida Green Way) starts at the junction with Inter-State Expressway Route 4. The station surrounds the east side of Orlando City and reaches Walt Disney World Resort.

Sunrail is a commuter line in Central Florida where a new station opened in the city in 2014.

Sunford Grammar School (January 2007)

In 2004, the Riverwalk for bicycles and pedestrians was completed. The three-meter-wide road runs along the lakeside of Lake Monroe a few miles from downtown. In 2014, it was extended by about one kilometer.

The city had renovated Sanford Avenue, the main street, and planted trees and flowers along the street, and laid out broad sidewalks and benches.

In order to support environmentally friendly efforts, Sanford has five charging stations for electric vehicles. The city plans to replace streetlights with LEDs.

• Jim Courier-tennis player.
• Tim Raines - baseball player.
• David Extein-Baseball player.

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