Eatonville
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town in Orange County, Florida, United States of America
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Florida
- County
- Orange
- Founded lawrence
- c. 1880-1881
- Incorporated town of eatonville
- August 15, 1887
- Type
- Mayor-Council
- Total
- 1.16 sq mi (3.00 km )
- Land
- 0.98 sq mi (2.55 km )
- Water
- 0.17 sq mi (0.45 km )
- Elevation
- 92 ft (28 m)
- Density
- 2,384.5/sq mi (920.65/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Area codes
- 407, 689
- Fips code
- 12-19650
- Website
- www .townofeatonville .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Eatonville
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Orange County
- Population
- 2349
- Area
- 2.896839
- Elevation
- 29
- Shares border with
- Orlando
- Official website
- www.townofeatonville.org
- Image
- Eatonville, Florida; Town Hall.jpg
- Households
- 849
- Dialing code
- 407
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- water as percent of area
- 11.6003
- Commons category
- Eatonville, Florida
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Eatonville, Florida
- per capita income
- 17199
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Encyclopedic overview
Eatonville is a town in Orange County, Florida, United States, six miles north of Orlando. It is part of Greater Orlando. Incorporated on August 15, 1887, it was one of the first self-governing all-black municipalities in the United States. (Brooklyn, Illinois, incorporated July 8, 1873, is the oldest incorporated Black town in the U.S.) The Eatonville Historic District and Moseley House Museum are in Eatonville. Author Zora Neale Hurston grew up in Eatonville, and the area features in many of her stories.
The Robert Hungerford Normal and Industrial School was founded in 1897 to provide education for black students in grades 6-12 and taught children for over 100 years. In 1990, the town founded the Zora Neale Hurston Museum of Fine Arts. Every winter the town stages the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities. A library named for her opened in January 2004. Eatonville is home to WESH and WKCF, two television stations serving the Orlando television market.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eatonville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.