{"id":320741,"date":"2026-06-26T15:49:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/320741\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:49:23","slug":"lunch-learn-orlando-in-the-late-1800s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/320741\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch &#038; Learn: Orlando in the Late 1800s \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            Friday, August 7, 2026, Noon \u2013 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando officially incorporated as a town in 1875 and as a city in 1885. Using two bird\u2019s-eye view maps from 1884 and 1890, we can see how the city\u2019s foundational history shaped what Orlando is today. Join historian, Rachel Williams, as she describes key figures and places in early Orlando.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rachel-Williams-newsletter-photo-2.png\" alt=\"Photo of Rachel Williams, historian. Woman with long medium brown hair, clear glasses, and black top standing in from of step and repeat banner.\" width=\"189\" height=\"200\"  \/><br \/>\nAbout Our Speaker<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Williams holds a bachelor\u2019s degree and a master\u2019s degree in history and public history from the University of Central Florida. She is currently the historian at the History Center, where she works on various projects such as editing the museum\u2019s magazine, Reflections\u00a0from Central Florida,\u00a0and assisting the public with research projects.<\/p>\n<p>Participate online or in-person. Closed caption available online.<\/p>\n<p>History Center Members: Free<br \/>General Public: $5<br \/>History Center Members with lunch: $12<br \/>General Public with lunch: $17<\/p>\n<p>Lunch must be ordered by 9 a.m. on Thursday, August 6. Call\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehistorycenter.org\/event\/lunch-learn-orlando-in-the-late-1800s\/tel:4078368580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">407-836-8580<\/a>\u00a0with questions.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/10828.blackbaudhosting.com\/10828\/Lunch--Learn---Orlando-in-the-late-1800s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">REGISTER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, August 7, 2026, Noon \u2013 1 p.m. Orlando officially incorporated as a town in 1875 and as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-320741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}