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During his lifetime, Hibbard Casselberry started these businesses and services:

Winter Park Ferneries

(later Casselberry Ferneries)

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Winter Park Fern Corporation

(later contracted as its War Industries Division)

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Winter Park Gladiolus Gardens

(later Casselberry Gardens)

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Lake Concord Company

(later replaced by Casselberry Utilities)

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Casselberry’s Belgian Azaleas

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Established the Railway Express Agency in Casselberry

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Azalea Driving Park and Azalea Lodge (harness racing track)

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Normandy Corporation (building homes)

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Casselberry Textiles (went from manufacturing tent liners to manufacturing bedspreads after WWII)

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Sunnytown Togs (used equipment from the parachute manufacturing business under the War Industries Division to making children’s clothes)

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Casselberry Golf Course

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Casselberry Credit Union

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A Contract Post Office

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Casselberry Realty – and Casselberry Land Company

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Casselberry Memory Gardens (cemetery)

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Logos and letterhead from some of Hibbard's businesses.


Hibbard with His Employees in the 1950s

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To know Who's Who, click here:

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Above - After the ferns were cut, they were graded for quality and then shipped according to the shade of green the florist required.

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Elizabeth Johnson checks boxes of ferns being shipped out of Casselberry's Railway Express Station.

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