“Individually,
the Citizens of Casselberry
are the nicest people in the world...
But put them all together in one room,
and they are the meanest, orneriest,
craziest bunch of people you'd ever
want to meet!”
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Kenneth MacIntosh,
City Attorney
1960 - 1996
The Town Incorporation Meeting - October 1940
Above - Hibbard admitted he had invested his
own money when incorporating the town, and that of his companies and stockholders. He spoke with humility about building the
railroad station, his service as mayor, and the community house. “We built it from an old chicken house - a very large chicken house, but still
that.”
.
Right - Because the Citizens did
not want taxes imposed upon themselves, Hibbard had the Map of Casselberry drawn up quietly and then recorded it on April
1, 1940. When Gordon Barnett heard about it, he brought it to the attention of the County Commissioners. Never before in Seminole
County had a map been submitted that took in existing parts of another recorded plat.
The Women's Club was the social circle of
the town in the 1950s. The women held bake sales, open air breakfasts, and raffles to raise money for the materials to build
their clubhouse. Men in the community provided the labor.
Talley Hattaway (left) and Paul Bates came to work for Hibbard as young
teenagers in the 1920s and 1930s. When the Town was incorporated, Talley served as Marshall. As long as he could coax
people into not breaking the law, he didn't need a gun. Someone eventually thought he did, so Hibbard lent Talley one
of his own.
