City Site | County Site | County Appraiser | Wikipedia County | Wikipedia City | Winter Springs Homes For Sale

Black Hammock

Tuscawilla

Winter Springs TownCenter

Winter Springs High School

C21 Winter Springs Office

Until the mid-1950s, Winter Springs was nothing more than several square miles of scrub pine and palmettos. That’s when developers Raymond Moss and William Edgemon bought the land, subdivided it and introduced the Village of North Orlando.

At the start of the 1970’s, a time of rampant growth throughout Central Florida, the area contained one small grocery store and roughly 300 homes straddling State Road 434.

Tuscawilla, eastern Seminole County’s first upscale golf course community, changed all that. Also, a new city charter was adopted in 1972, changing the city’s name to Winter Springs.

Today, the city’s growth rivals that of adjacent Oviedo. In the past two decades, population has increased 800 percent, to more than 31,600. And more growth is on the way, through both residential and commercial development.

Officials are now eyeing more of the so-called Black Hammock, a marshy wilderness north of the city, where scattered homes are set on three- to five-acre lots. Over the years, the city has annexed several Black Hammock parcels and rezoned them to allow new subdivisions, much to the chagrin of many Black Hammock residents.

In any case, Winter Springs is moving ahead on other fronts. For example, a South Carolina-based developer has completed Phase I of a 240-acre Town Center at the corner of State Road 434 and Tuskawilla Road. The complex will ultimately encompass 2,400 multifamily residential units, 99 single-family homes, 591,000 square feet of retail space and 573,000 square feet of office space along with apartments, parks and public buildings.