Editing Maitland, Florida (section)

==History==

Maitland is one of the oldest incorporated suburban municipalities in central Florida. The area was previously inhabited by [[Timucuan]] Native Americans. The town was originally named for a nearby Lake, which honored Captain William Seton Maitland, who fought in the Second Seminole Indian War, and was slain in the [[Battle of Wahoo Swamp]]. A small military outpost was built in 1838 on the western shore of [[Lake Fumecheliga]] (later Lake Maitland) during the [[Second Seminole War]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dibble |first1=Ernest F. |title=Giveaway Forts: Territorial Forts and the Settlement of Florida |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=Fall 1999 |volume=78 |issue=2 |page=218 |url=http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A25534 |access-date=11 July 2023}}</ref> After the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], new residents arrived in the area. Christopher Columbus Beasley, perhaps the first permanent settler, arrived at Lake Maitland in 1871. A post office opened on January 2 of the next year and operated in his home.<ref name="USPS Postmaster Finder">{{Cite web| url=http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postmasterfinder/welcome.htm| title=United States Postal Service Postmaster Finder}}</ref> Around this post office, a small town grew. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century the area was put into extensive [[citrus]] production.<ref name="itsmymaitland.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.itsmymaitland.com/maitland_history.asp |title=CITY OF MAITLAND |website=www.itsmymaitland.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020803205443/http://www.itsmymaitland.com/maitland_history.asp |archive-date=2002-08-03}}</ref>

[[File:Maitland 1926.jpg|thumb|left|A street corner in Lake Maitland, c. 1926]]
Lake Maitland was incorporated as a town in 1885, the third such town in Orange County to do so. In its infancy, Lake Maitland was often characterized as a rural village, with streets lined with large oak trees planted by early town aldermen. However, the old town began to rapidly modernize as [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando's]] suburban sprawl reached the town in the mid-1920s. During this period the town grew rapidly as new houses and roads were built. 

One of the town's pioneers, citrus grower [[Isaac Vanderpool]], became mayor and developed a plan to remove the community's growing black population by helping to organize the separate community that became [[Eatonville, Florida]].<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=S9sBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA115-IA1&dq=1889+second+congressional.district+florida&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiMv-6Nr6-MAxULIEQIHcrKOjIQ6AF6BAgEEAM#v=onepage&q=negro&f=false</ref>

In 1959, Maitland was incorporated as a city. Maitland is a suburb of Orlando. The town's "historical corridor" encompasses old residences still standing and occupied in the Lake Lily-Lake Catherine area and extending through the central portion of the city. Examples of these century-old structures include the [[Church of the Good Shepherd (Maitland, Florida)|Church of the Good Shepherd]] (1883); the [[William H. Waterhouse House]] (1884); the [[Maitland Public Library]] (1907); and the [[Maitland Art Center]] (1937).<ref name="itsmymaitland.com"/> The area has always been a vacation spot because of its climate, location to theme parks and people. Maitland has many picturesque parks along lakes, which attract many boaters.