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Deer Park, Florida

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to facilitate military operations in the area. The army abandoned the fort in 1838, and R.B. and J.N. Savage established a trading post on the site.
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American Military History Volume 1: The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775-1917
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Part of the 200,000 acre property of Orlando Livestock Company Ranch, Deer Park, Florida, 1950
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created settlements in Deer Park to house workers for his saw and planing mill at the
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Fort Taylor, named after Army General and future President of the United States
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Deer Park, Florida
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was located in Deer Park. This fort was built in 1837 during the Second
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Fort Taylor in Deer Park. Now part of the Kempfer Cattle ranch.
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Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
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Unincorporated communities in Osceola County, Florida
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Fort Taylor (Florida)


unincorporated community
Osceola County
Florida
US 192
County Road 419
Orlando
Kissimmee
Metropolitan Statistical Area
Deseret Ranches
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
George W. Hopkins
Union Cypress Company
Hopkins, Florida

Zachary Taylor
Seminole Wars
Fort Zachary Taylor
Key West
St. Johns River
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Deer Park, Florida
"Deer Park"
American Military History Volume 1: The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775-1917
ISBN
0-16-072362-0

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