Mary Cobb Beeman

Born1840
Died1933

Wife of chewing gum king, Dr. Edwin Beeman, and son of Harry and Lester. She moved to Orlando in the 1880s and lived died there in 1933 at 92. She lived on a large estate Lake Sue, in a home next to her sons.

Ginger Ale Springs

Every day thousands of cars zoom past on nearby Markham Woods Road. Its bubbling brook gurgles only a few hundred feet from Interstate 4 and State Road 434. Hiding off in the woods is a tiny boiling spring. Although unknown even to most lifelong residents, for decades, it has been called “Ginger Ale Spring” by insiders.