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5 unusual facts about Osceola


Association of Free Lutheran Congregations

The AFLC has five corporations that are sponsored by the AFLC to direct their common endeavors: the Coordinating Committee, the Schools Corporation, the Missions Corporation, the AFLC Foundation and the Association Retreat Center (ARC), located near Osceola, Wisconsin.

The Association Retreat Center (ARC) is a separate organization of the AFLC near Osceola, Wisconsin that serves as a retreat center for various activities within the AFLC.

Osceola

Nature Girl, a novel by Carl Hiaasen, gives an abbreviated history of Osceola's capture and imprisonment.

Captive, by Heather Graham (1996), historical novel features Osceola as one of the protagonists.

Sinks of Gandy

The Sinks of Gandy — also called the Sinks of Gandy Creek, or simply “The Sinks” — are a modestly celebrated cave and underground stream at Osceola in eastern Randolph County, West Virginia, USA.


Caernarvon, Louisiana

Names of antebellum Plantations in the American South were often reflective of European roots and aspersions of grandeur; two upriver Mississippi River plantations, Nottoway near White Castle, Louisiana and Sans Souci near Osceola, Arkansas are two examples of this tradition.

Chico Fletcher

A native of Osceola, Arkansas, he was recruited by Arkansas State to play for their football team.

Edward J. Adams

The gang was spotted eleven days later after stealing $500 in silver from a bank near Osceola, Iowa This was followed by another attempt by a posse to apprehend the gang just south of Murray, IA.

Kissimmee River

Below Lake Kissimmee, the river forms the boundary between Osceola County and Polk County, between Highlands County and Okeechobee County, and between Glades County and Okeechobee County before it flows into Lake Okeechobee.

Metroplan Orlando

Metroplan Orlando is the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for the Orlando, Florida Urban Area, which consists of Orange, Osceola and Seminole Counties.

Osceola and St. Croix Valley Railway

It is operated by the Osceola Historical Society and the Minnesota Transportation Museum on former Soo Line and Wisconsin Central trackage, now owned by Canadian National Railway.

Reedy Creek Emergency Services

RCFD transfers police calls to Orange County Sheriff's Office and Osceola County Sheriff's Department depending upon jurisdiction.

Reunion, Florida

Developed by Bobby Ginn, owner of Ginn Racing, Reunion is part of the OrlandoKissimmee Metropolitan Statistical Area, Reunion is situated on 2,226 acres and is a planned Development of Regional Impact (DRI) planned for 6,233 residential dwelling units, 1,574 hotel rooms, 140,000 SF of office space and 484,000 SF of retail space according to the Osceola County Planning Office.

Ruth Springer Wedgeworth

Wedgeworth's grows sugarcane on approximately 10,000 acres in Palm Beach County and operates 10,000 acres of ranch lands in Osceola, Okeechobee and Indian River Counties.

Samuel C. Upham

In January 1849, Upham sailed on The Osceola to San Francisco, via Rio de Janeiro and Talcahuana, arriving in California on August 5, 1849 and participating in the California Gold Rush.

The News-Gazette

The Osceola News-Gazette, a weekly newspaper based in Osceola County, Florida


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