1890 Property Map of Lake Brantley area

Lake Brantley and Hunt Club area. This 1890 Orange County tax role map shows the property owners overlayed on the modern-day satellite view map.

The red highlighted area indicates the section the Lewton family donated for the Lake Brantley Union Chapel, constructed in 1895 with a cemetery behind it. The deed stipulated that it must be used as a public church open to all denominations and classes, or it would revert to them. After the church was abandoned following the Great Freeze, the Lewtons took it back. They deeded their property to Rollins College in exchange for their children’s tuition.

Herbert Fuller and Maxwell McIntyre moved Lake Brantley Union Chapel to Altamonte Springs in 1906. It now resides on State Road 436 as the Altamonte Chapel.

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