By Mark Baratelli
The Hugh G. Partin estate family cemetery at 2500 Modac Trail in Winter Park was designated by City Council as a historic resource on the Winter Park register of historic places.
The property will remain private and the city will not have any hand in maintaining it.
The cemetery is a 0.54 acre vacant parcel that was part of a much larger land holding by Hugh G. Partin when it was granted to him on April 9, 1878. It was recorded in 1879. The half-acre cemetery, just north of Howell Creek, is the last of the old homestead still owned by heirs of Hugh and Nancy Partin.
The site is vacant except for the head stone monuments that rise above the grass and under the several trees. It sits within an established neighborhood known as The Hills of Winter Park. The site is surrounded by a chain-link fence and has a double gate on to Modac Trail. There is no parking on-site, only on-street parking on Modac Trail.
Brooks Weiss stated during a December 13th Winter Park Historic Preservation Board meeting that The Partin Family Cemetery at 2500 Modac Trail is significant for its association with the history of Central Florida and the early period of development of Winter Park. It is an uncommon example of all four criteria for historic designation in Winter Park, and perhaps nationally as well. Specifically, it may be the only Family Cemetery known to be located within Winter Park.
There's a book about the family called The Partin Family History written in 1976. Hugh Partin owned a 60,000-acre cattle dynasty founded in the Florida scrub" according to Orlando Sentinel.
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The Hugh G. Partin estate family cemetery at 2500 Modac Trail in Winter Park was designated by City Council as a historic resource on the Winter Park register of historic places.
The property will remain private and the city will not have any hand in maintaining it.
The cemetery is a 0.54 acre vacant parcel that was part of a much larger land holding by Hugh G. Partin when it was granted to him on April 9, 1878. It was recorded in 1879. The half-acre cemetery, just north of Howell Creek, is the last of the old homestead still owned by heirs of Hugh and Nancy Partin.
The site is vacant except for the head stone monuments that rise above the grass and under the several trees. It sits within an established neighborhood known as The Hills of Winter Park. The site is surrounded by a chain-link fence and has a double gate on to Modac Trail. There is no parking on-site, only on-street parking on Modac Trail.
Brooks Weiss stated during a December 13th Winter Park Historic Preservation Board meeting that The Partin Family Cemetery at 2500 Modac Trail is significant for its association with the history of Central Florida and the early period of development of Winter Park. It is an uncommon example of all four criteria for historic designation in Winter Park, and perhaps nationally as well. Specifically, it may be the only Family Cemetery known to be located within Winter Park.
There's a book about the family called The Partin Family History written in 1976. Hugh Partin owned a 60,000-acre cattle dynasty founded in the Florida scrub" according to Orlando Sentinel.
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This Hugh G. Partin headstone is located in the Hugh G. Partin estate family cemetery.
This Hugh G. Partin headstone is located in the Drawdy Rouse Cemetery.