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'''Oviedo''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|oʊ|'|v|iː|d|oʊ}} {{respell|oh|VEE|doh}}) is a city in [[Seminole County, Florida|Seminole County]], [[Florida]], United States. As of the [[2010 United States Census]]2020, the population was 3340,342, representing an increase of 7,026 (26059.7%) from the 26,316 counted in the [[2000 United States Census|2000 Census]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/12/1253575.html |title=U.S. Census Bureau - State & Count Quickfacts - Oviedo (city), Florida |publisher=quickfacts.census.gov |date=2010-04-01 |access-date=2012-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215070709/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/12/1253575.html |archive-date=2015-02-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is part of the [[Greater Orlando|Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area]]. Oviedo iswas known for its historic houses and buildings and agriculture, as well as its population of chickens that roamroamed the downtown area. Although the city has historically has been rural, in recent years it has had an influx of new developments to support its rapid growth, due to its proximity to the [[University of Central Florida]] and the [[Central Florida Research Park]].

Up through the early 19th century, the area encompassing Oviedo was sparsely populated save for a few Seminoles[[Seminole]]s and [[Freedman#United_States|African-American Freemenfreemen]] who associated with the [[Seminole]] tribe, known as [[Black Seminoles]], in what was then [[Spanish Florida]]. The [[Seminole]] tribe had larger clusters of population in other areas of Central Florida, such as nearby [[Lake Jesup]].<ref name=EarlyDays>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Early Days of Seminole County |location=Oviedo |publisher=Museum of Seminole County History}}</ref>

The population remained sparse until after the [[American Civil War]], when people devastated by war started moving South to begin a new life. One mile to the southeast side of Lake Jesup, a small hamletgroup of settlers established the "Lake Jesup Settlement", in 1875. Letters from that era showcased a difficult life for the [[Florida Cracker]] settlers: cooking outdoors with wood stoves, sleeping under mosquito nets, and burning rags to keep the insects away. Wildlife was plentiful, however. Initially, this settlement had around 40 families, but quickly evolved into a thriving trading port. The settlement was named "Oviedo" by Andrew Aulin when the first post office was established to honor the state's Spanish heritage.<ref name=AddicksNeely1992>{{cite book |last1=Addicks |first1=Richard|last2=Neely |first2=Donna |date=1992 |title=Oviedo The Biography of a Town |location=Oviedo |publisher=Luthers |isbn=978-0-615-16643-8}}</ref>

In the late 1870s, individuals living a few miles south of [[Lake Jesup]] needed an easily accessible [[post office]] in the Florida back country. [[Andrew Aulin]], an early settler and shop-owner, decided to file paperwork for a post office, and in his first site location report, needed a name that was different from any other post office in Florida.<ref name="autogenerated13AdicksNeely1992">{{cite book|last1=Adicks|first1=Richard|last2=Neely|first2=Donna|title=Oviedo: Biography of a Town|year=1992|publisher=Richard Adicks and Donna Neely|location=Oviedo, Florida|page=13|edition=2nd}}</ref> Aulin liked having a [[Spanish language|Spanish]] name, "to honor the Spanish heritage of the state," and decided to name his post office location "Oviedo" after the city of [[Oviedo]] in northern [[Spain]] (the capital city of the Principality of [[Asturias]]) and the [[University of Oviedo]].<ref name="autogenerated13"AdicksNeely1992 /> Some say he visited the university, while others say he just liked the sound of it, but most agree that he likely pronounced the name correctly {{respell|oh|vee|AY|doh}} rather than the Americanized[[Anglicisation way of(linguistics)|anglicized]] {{respell|oh|VEE|doh}}.{{citation_needed|date=August 2017}} A recent campaign advocates for honoring Aulin's original concept for the town's moniker by returning tousing the correct Spanish pronunciation {{respell|oh|vee|AY|doh}}).

Several people played a prominent role in establishing Oviedo's history. George Powell was an early settler who ran a large tract of land, referred to as the "Powell Settlement", which today encompasses most of the northern part of the city—including the downtown area. One of Powell's sons, [[Lewis Powell, (conspirator)|Lewis Powell]] (alias Lewis Payne), became infamous for being [[John Wilkes Booth]]'s primary accomplice in the plot to assassinate President [[Abraham Lincoln]].<ref name=AddicksNeely1992AdicksNeely1992 />

George Powell's friend, Henry Foster, was instrumental in transforming Oviedo's citrus and celery industry from obscurity to prominence by giving Oviedo reliable transportation to deliver its goods. He paid for a railway link to Oviedo and founded the Lake Jesup Steamboat Company. Agriculture was Oviedo's primary industry all the way through the 1940s. FosterIn wasthe 1860s, Foster also was responsible for establishing the nearby Lake Charm area as a resort to entice visitors from the North to vacation in the winter.; it lasted as a resort only until the 1890s, but several winter homes built during that era still stand today. Foster encouraged settlers to begin attending regular church services on a site ofwithin the "Powell Settlement" that would become the [[First Methodist Church of Oviedo]].<ref name=AddicksNeely1992AdicksNeely1992 />

A citrus- grower named Butler Boston is also is credited for helping establish Oviedo's citrus economy by successfully grafting tangerine [[budwood]] to grow tangerines, as well as budding the succulent [[Temple orange|temple orange]] from Jamaica to several Oviedo fields. Butler Boston was the son of a doctor, Alexander Atkinson, who had fathered Butler, along with several others with freed black women on his family's plantation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canterburyretreat.org/atkinson-boston-family-files/ |title=Atkinson – Boston Family Files |website=www.canterburyretreat.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151102023534/http://canterburyretreat.org/atkinson-boston-family-files/ |archive-date=2015-11-02}}</ref> Atkinson moved to Oviedo in 1871, with the 12-year-old Butler to, both to set up a medical practice and buy a farm. Atkinson gave the land to his son after a freeze when he moved back to [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. Boston was so successful that he was hired to bud other Oviedo fields. He became a spokesman for the large black community in the area, and was especially devoted to improving their educational opportunities, and served as a local school trustee. He was also an accomplished [[bricklayer]] and oversaw the planning and construction of a new building for the Antioch Baptist Church. His legacy is noted today throughout Oviedo, in sites such as Boston Street, Boston Alley, Boston Cemetery, Boston Hill and Butler Boston Court. His home site is where Canterbury Retreat and Conference Center is located. Its centerpiece is [[Lake Gem (Florida)|Lake Gem]], named by the Boston family for a close family member.<ref name=AddicksNeely1992AdicksNeely1992 /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://canterburyretreat.org/about/canterburys-history/|title = Canterbury's History}}</ref>

Andrew Duda Sr., a [[Slovaks|Slovak]] immigrant, established a farm in nearby Slavia in the early 20th century. He left after failing to produce successful crops, but saved up money and returned in 1926 to try again. The second time, he was extraordinarily successful and his farm survived even through the [[Great Depression]]. In fact, in 1939, he was able to build [[St. Luke's Lutheran Church]], which has since expanded into a large [[Lutheran]] community. The Duda family started a sod division in the 1970s, that has since flourished and continues today. The west entrance of Oviedo cuts straight through the sod farm.<ref name=AddicksNeely1992AdicksNeely1992 />

Oviedo experienced a major growth spurt during the boom years of the 1920s, and new buildings and banks were built on the main street of downtown, named "Broadway". Some of these buildings still remain, along with the complex of buildings surrounding the Nelson and Co. packing house, which was the center of Oviedo's agricultural industry for decades. This agricultural complex eventually shut down for good during the 1980s, after a series of winter freezes. At that time, commercial development had already replaced agriculture as Oviedo's main industry.<ref name=AddicksNeely1992AdicksNeely1992 />

Oviedo made the transition from a rural hamletsettlement, to officially incorporating into a town in 1925, and then, inofficially 1967, becamebecoming a city in 1967, through a special referendum.<ref name=AdicksNeely1992 /><ref name=town2city>{{Cite web|title=ORDINANCE NO. 1715 (page 1)|url=https://mcclibraryfunctions.azurewebsites.us/api/ordinanceDownload/14268/1138691/pdf?|website=mcclibraryfunctions.azurewebsites.us}}</ref><ref name=OviInc>{{Cite web|title=MUNICIPAL DIRECTORY|url=https://www.floridaleagueofcities.com/research-resources/municipal-directory|website=floridaleagueofcities.com}}</ref> Five miles south of Oviedo, in 1963, residents learned about the impending building of a "space university" in the ''Orlando Morning Sentinel''. Many faculty and staff members of Florida Technological University (now the [[University of Central Florida]]) moved into Oviedo, and new businesses and industry soon followed. The adjacent [[Central Florida Research Park]], originally established in 1978, has since become the largest research park in Florida. This has resulted in an exploding population with many new developments in recent years. As the city has grown, itsneither animalsferal havehogs remainednor achickens partcan ofbe theseen city'swandering character.among the Althoughtraffic hogsand canbuildings noin longerthe betown seenany walking freemore, chickens continueleading to roam the downtowndestruction areaof andthe havesmall becometown anthat originally made Oviedo attractionso charming. <ref name=AddicksNeely1992AdicksNeely1992 />

Most of the buildings in the downtown historic area were constructed betweenduring the end of thelate 19th and early 20th centurycenturies. The [[Nelson and Company Historic District]], the [[R.W. Estes Celery Company Precooler Historic District]], the [[First Methodist Church of Oviedo]], and several houses in Oviedo are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20010928.htm |title=NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Listings September 28, 2001 |publisher=Department of Interior |date=2001-09-28 |access-date=2015-10-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20070727.HTM |title=NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Listings July 27, 2007 |publisher=Department of Interior |date=2007-07-27 |access-date=2015-10-15}}</ref> The nearby [[Oviedo Mall]] featured murals of historic areas along with pictures of early European and African-American settlers in the area until renovations in 2022.

[[Florida State Road 434|State Road 434]], which cuts through downtown Oviedo, is currently being widened and several buildings have been demolished. The Oviedo Preservation Project<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oviedotraditions.org|title=The Oviedo Preservation Project}}</ref> has been tasked with photographing and documenting the buildings for posterity.

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