Piedmont Community Florida Historical Marker

Piedmont Community Florida Historical Marker Community of Piedmont
Piedmont, named in in the late 1890s, was comprised of a wide area around Blue lake, one and one-half miles east of Apopka City.

04/14/2020

The Apopka Historical Society maintains the Museum of the Apopkans.
Join. Help. Support.

07/22/2019

Family members of Piedmont pioneers: Would one of you care to be an administrator on this page to perpetuate it? You could add photos and information over time.

07/19/2019

Take a selfie at the marker and share it.
Tag yourself and the site! Please.

Where do you go for help? Do you know someone in trouble? Are they being forced to do something the don't want to do? Ar...
07/18/2019

Where do you go for help? Do you know someone in trouble? Are they being forced to do something the don't want to do?
Are wages being withheld?
Are they subject to fraud?
Please help them! Don't turn an eye.

Aerial directions to marker for Piedmont Community Florida Historical Marker, Apopka, FL.
10/20/2018

Aerial directions to marker for Piedmont Community Florida Historical Marker, Apopka, FL.

10/20/2018

John Anderson, were the founders your ancestors? If so, how are you related to them?

Where is it located? Go to the intersection of 441-Orange Blossom Trail and Piedmont-Wekiva Road. Heading southbound wit...
10/20/2018

Where is it located?
Go to the intersection of 441-Orange Blossom Trail and Piedmont-Wekiva Road.
Heading southbound with Sam's Club on your left (west) and gas station on your right (east) turn right at the first traffic light in the northern most entrance of Wal-Mart.
Take a right at the stop sign (south) towards the Wal-Mart store. Park immediately in the area or go towards the store and loop to the right and right again down the first parking row. Go completely to the end of that row and park.
The park and marker are in the grass island to the west of the parking lane.
See the photos to locate the monument.

Google Earth satellite views of the Piedmont Community Historical Marker.
10/20/2018

Google Earth satellite views of the Piedmont Community Historical Marker.

10/20/2018

GPS location 28* 39*'05N 81*28'11W 2,725 ft

10/20/2018

Mrs. Annie Belle Driggers Gilliam spearheaded the recognition of the Community of Piedmont and many other projects in the Greater Apopka Area as the senior member of the Apopka Historical Society at The Museum of the Apopkans. Apopkan History Apopka, Florida City of Apopka- News, Events, & Info Mayor Bryan Nelson, City of Apopka

10/20/2018

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1700 Orange Blossom Trl
Apopka, FL
32703

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(407) 703-1707

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