Winter Park is a city in Orange County, Florida, United States. The population was 30,183 according to the 2022 census population estimate. It is ration of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Winter Park was founded as a resort community by northern thing magnates in the late 19th and ahead of time 20th centuries (Founded on July 4, 1881 – Tales of Winter Park). Its main street, called Park Avenue, is located in the center of town. It includes civic buildings, retail, art galleries, a private enlightened arts college (Rollins College), museums, a park, a train station, a golf course country club, a historic cemetery, and a beach and ship launch.

The Winter Park area’s first human residents were migrant Muscogee people who had earlier intermingled when the Choctaw and other native people. In a process of ethnogenesis, the Native Americans formed a other culture which they called “Seminole”, a derivative of the Mvskoke’ (a Creek language) word simano-li, an getting used to of the Spanish cimarrón which means “wild” (in their case, “wild men”), or “runaway” . The site was first inhabited by Europeans in 1858, when David Mizell Jr. bought an 8-acre (32,000 m2) homestead in the middle of Lakes Virginia, Mizell, and Berry. A settlement, called Lake View by the inhabitants, grew up going on for Mizell’s plot. It got a reveal office and a additional name—Osceola—in 1870.

The area did not produce rapidly until 1880, when a South Florida Railroad track connecting Orlando and Sanford was laid a few miles west of Osceola. Shortly afterwards, Loring Chase came to Orange County from Chicago to recuperate from a lung disease. In his travels, he discovered the Beautiful group of lakes just east of the railbed. He enlisted a rich New Englander, Oliver E. Chapman, and they assembled a very large tract of home for $13,000 on July 4, 1881. They planned the town of Winter Park on this piece of land. Over the adjacent four years they plotted the town, opened streets, built a town hall and a store, planted orangey trees, and required all buildings to meet stylistic and architectural standards. Winter Park was a heavily planned city, something that is yet evident in its streets’ grindlike organization. The town was after that promoted heavily, especially to snow flora and fauna in the north looking for a place to hibernate in the winter. During this founding time, the Winter Park Post Office opened, and the railroad constructed a depot, connected to Osceola by a dirt road.