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Found in Florida: Packed with citrus history

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Found in Florida (Miia Ollesh)

The Packing District of Orlando is rooted in Central Florida’s citrus industry history. It is believed that half of the state’s annual citrus crop passed through this area in the 1920s.

Where once packing houses sat along railroad tracks, today it is home to Orlando’s newest neighborhood.

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Its nod to its citrus past is evident from wall murals, like this one on the Publix grocery store wall, to the iconic juice stand.

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