Life in Orlando Before Disney?

Destination Florida: Tourism Before Disney the new permanent exhibit at the Orange County Regional History Center is now open. Travel back in time to the 'Golden Age of Tourism,' nearly a century before Disney. See why visitors came to the Orlando area to vacation. Peek at some of Orlando's original landmark icons

The Orange County Regional History Center, housed in a restored historic five-story 1927 county courthouse in downtown Orlando, showcases the vast collections of the Historical Society of Central Florida, Inc. The museum features three floors of permanent exhibitions that take your on a journey through the region’s fascinating transition from Indian settlement to small town surrounded by citrus groves and cattle ranches to today's tourist-centric community.