ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A familiar Central Florida charity has reached a multimillion-dollar agreement to purchase 117 acres of the historic Hungerford property from Orange County Public Schools, with plans to return the land to the Eatonville community.
Eatonville is widely recognized as one of the nation’s first self-governing Black municipalities, founded in 1887 by freedmen and their descendants. It is also the hometown of celebrated author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, whose work helped preserve African American folklore and whose legacy continues to shape American literature.
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