Henry Shelton Sanford, a former union general and powerful member of the nation Republican party. He founded the town of Sanford, Florida was founded on Lake Monroe South Shore in 1870. Sanford established a plantation on Lake Monroe in central Florida to grow winter vegetables (Gannon). He planned a new city “The Gate City of South Florida” which he believed would become a transportation hub. Sanford was a prosperous town with wharves, a railroad station and a hotel. Although the railroad was succeeding and citrus was booming, Sanford was hit hard with a devastating fire, a freeze and a statewide epidemic, yellow fever. Sanford purchased 23 archers of land in the Sanford area and later sold the land to different people. In 1891, William Clark…show more content… Eatonville, Florida was the first successful African American town. Goldsboro was founded in 1891 by William Clark, Frank Siplin, George Benton, George Cook, and John Gold. Goldsboro was named after the founder John Gold. This town was established with its own post office, bakeries, drug stores, city council, garbage and sewer collector. Each of the five men own a part of the town which were called estates. To name a few: Boykin Estates and Clark Estates. Just as these men worked hard to get their town up and established, then everything came crashing down by a powerful banker and state lawmaker by the name Forrest Lake. Even though town officals were writing letters to. The goal was trying to make Goldsboro become a part of Sanford. Goldsboro was beginning to lose its identity. Lake’s plan worked less than a month later, Goldsboro was now a part of Sanford. Lake was latered sent to prison for fraud and embezzlement. In 1897, six years after the founding of the town, the City of Sanford had the five men sign papers to sell the land and later would be reimbursed. Sources say the men were never paid their
