Orlando, reviewed like a local — reviews, news, tips and guides from the neighborhoods up.
Orlando, reviewed like a local — reviews, news, tips and guides from the neighborhoods up.
Pine Castle holds no ranked tables, so its evening runs five minutes north — SoDo’s bakery-born dining corridor and Delaney Park’s tavern, labelled with their home areas — and home to the old town’s quiet.
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Downtown five miles north on Orange Avenue, the Beachline and Greeneway minutes away, SunRail at the northern edge and MCO at the southeastern: Pine Castle’s connections are its modern inheritance.
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Warren Park and the Lake Conway shore in Belle Isle — labelled as the neighbouring city it is — a SunRail ride from the community’s own station, and home through the old town’s streets.
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Passenger trains bypassed Pine Castle for decades after the depot era ended. In 2014, SunRail’s Sand Lake Road station — at the community’s northern edge — put Pine Castle back on the railroad its town was built on.
Read MoreSeven years after the settlement began, Pine Castle founded its elementary school. Nearly 150 years later it is still the community’s oldest living institution — older than the town charter, older than the airport, older than Orlando’s fame.
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In the year Pine Castle incorporated, a boat manufacturer founded its original factory here. A century on, Correct Craft is a global marine company — and its founding address is a Pine Castle fact.
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Two miles southeast of Pine Castle, an airfield named for the community trained B-17 crews, tested the X-1, became McCoy Air Force Base — and now lands the world’s flights as Orlando International, code MCO.
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No ranked restaurants sit inside Pine Castle and none are invented here. The community eats along the Orange Avenue and Orange Blossom Trail corridors, and at SoDo’s ranked tables just north — labelled as theirs.
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An 1870 settlement, an elementary school founded in 1877, a railroad by 1882 and a town charter in 1925 that lasted five years: Pine Castle’s first century, and why the community still marks it.
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Settled in 1870, incorporated in 1925, unincorporated again by 1930 — Pine Castle is 11,122 people in south Orange County with a railroad past, a boat factory, an airfield that became MCO, and a name older than Orlando’s fame.
Read MoreOrlando Citizen — a name first published in 1897