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Otto Fries

Solary’s Wharf: The Lost Steamboat Gateway of Lake Jesup

Along the swampy, cypress-fringed shores of Lake Jesup near Black Hammock, the landscape feels almost frozen in time. Today, the quiet is broken only by the low grunt of a bull alligator, the sudden slap of a mullet, or the...

Altamonte Springs 1892 Plat Map

Altamonte Land Hotel & Navigation Company Surveyed by M. B. Given Revised and Platted by Otto Fries, 1892
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