Winter Garden Trailer City (photograph)
Description
The accompanying colored post card shows early trailers, brick road, palm trees and Trailer City office building. Trailer City, a mobile home park, was built in the 1930s with WPA (Works Progress Administration) funds. It was a $200,000 project, the idea of Mayor George Walker. The city of Winter Garden owns the property. Trailer City was highly praised in country-wide publications. Postmark on the back of the card is 1946.
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Winter Garden Trailer City (post card)
Source notes
Winter Garden Heritage Foundation History Research Center http://www.cwgdn.com/cityhall/departments/trailer-city/
Project originally submitted by James Crescitelli on September 16, 2013.
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