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Petty’s Market of Longwood

Siblings Jay and Mary Alysson Pettigrew were twenty-something entrepreneurs passionate about food. Their first venture was running a typical high-volume supermarket owned by their parents (Jerry and Rosemary) in St. Cloud. They sold that market around 1976 when a buyer...

Evans Block in Lake Mary

Frank Evans built this two-story building in 1926 at the southeast corner of Country Club Rd and Crystal Lake Ave in Lake Mary. The bricks were salvaged from the general store of Axel E. Sjoblom, which previously stood at this...

Winn-Dixie and the Davis Family

Boldness and tenacity took Winn-Dixie from a single store in Miami to a multi-billion dollar grocery empire. William Milton Davis didn’t always win at business but wasn’t afraid of failure either. The founding father of the Winn-Dixie grocery empire was intense...