100 years Ago

Prosperity abounds across the country, as well as in Winter Park.

Construction of the Orlando-Winter Park Highway, 17-92, is completed, connecting the two cities.
Town doctor R.F. Hotard is authorized to vaccinate the town for smallpox.
The Alabama Hotel (1922-1979) opens with 80 rooms facing Lake Maitland. The luxury hotel attracts winter visitors for the season. Today the building operates as an upscale condominium, but the original 1920s hotel façade remains.
The Winter Park Garden Club is established.
At Rollins, tuition increases to $450 a year. In a football game with the University of Havana, Rollins wins by a score of 80 to 0!

Under expanded Prohibition Laws, “home brewing” of liquor is now illegal.
On the Washington Mall, the Grecian-style Lincoln Memorial is dedicated honoring our 16th president.
At the movies, My American Wife is a box office favorite.
Topping the best seller list is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and the Damned, Ulysses, the classic by James Joyce, and Babbit by Sinclair Lewis.
One of the most popular songs of the year is Secondhand Rose by "Funny Girl," Fanny Brice.

Mussolini and his Fascist party come to power in Italy.
The Soviet Union is is established, paving the way for the growth of communism across the globe in the 20th century.
After more than 3,000 years, the Egyptian ‘Tomb of Tutankhamen’ is in the Valley of the Kings.