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Wednesday, 06 October 2010 00:00
Through Oct. 31, a traveling exhibit entitled “Spanish Pathways” is on display at the Osceola County Historical Society Museum.
The exhibit, which is on loan from the Museum of Florida History, brings to light some little known facts about Spain’s early expeditions and settlements in “La Florida.”
Beginning with Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the Americas in 1492, “Spanish Pathways” examines the numerous effects Spanish culture has had on Florida’s early development. Viewers will trace the Spanish in Florida and investigate the earliest cattle industry, the Naváez expedition, De Soto’s epic march, Catholic mission sites, St. Augustine, Ft. Mose, Count Gálvez and the American Revolution, the Second Spanish Era and Paulina Pedrosa and Las Patriotas.
The museum, which is a fully air-conditioned facility on the grounds of the Pioneer Village at 750 N. Bass Road (just off West U.S. Highway 192) in Kissimmee, also contains numerous permanent exhibits and artifacts documenting Osceola County’s history and is included with admission to the village.
Tours of Mary
Steffee Nature
Preserve
On the second and fourth Sunday of each month, the Historical Society is now offering guided tours of its 8-acre Mary Steffee Nature Preserve.
The tours are ongoing and the guide offers information about the various plants and environment with a perspective from how native and pioneering people might have existed in and utilized the environment. Visitors must be at least a party of four for guided tours. Otherwise, visitors are welcome to do their own self-guided tours of the preserve anytime during village operating hours Thursdays through Sundays.
Adjacent to the Pioneer Village, the Mary Steffee Nature Preserve is an environment that shows Florida as it was well over 100 years ago. It’s an “oasis” in the midst of today’s subdivisions and commercial development containing a mile-long hiking trail, which includes a boardwalk that extends over swampland that is part of the Shingle Creek eco-system.
Admission to the Pioneer Village, museum and nature preserve is $5 for adults and $2 for children under 12. Operating hours are Thursdays through Sundays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information, call OCHS at 407-396-8644, or visit its website at www.osceolahistory.com.
 

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