Historical Society Of Central Florida Presents Lue Gim Gong
Dear Friends & Neighbors,
Lue Gim Gong, Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lue_Gim_Gong.jpg, PUblic Domain license: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain, Presented at: WindermereSun.com
(Please click on red links & note magenta)
For updated global info & data on COVID-19, please click HERE. For updated global data & graphs on COVID-19, please click HERE. For COVID-19 cases and death counts in USA by state, please click HERE. For COVID-19 cases in Florida via Florida COVID Action, please click HERE. For COVID-19 cases in Florida, via Florida state government, please click HERE.
Just received a message from Ricky Ly,, reminding us various upcoming events at Orange County Regional History Center, The Historical Society of Central Floria, 65 E. Central Blvd., Orlando, Florida 32801, 407-836-8500 or toll free: 800-965-2030, listed below:
- Lunch & Learn: Lue Gim Gong, The Citrus Wizard, Friday, May 6, 2022, noon-1:00 pm
- Mother’s Day: Free for Caregivers, Sunday, May 8, 2022, noon-5:00 pm
- Florida Highwaymen Meet & Greet, Saturday, May 14, 2022, 10:00 am-4:00 pm
To learn more about the Historical Society of Central Florida, please click HERE or read below in italics:
The nonprofit Historical Society of Central Florida supports the Orange County Regional History Center’s mission and programs through an agreement with the Board of County Commissioners.
The organization was founded in 1971 as the Orange County Historical Society, but its roots go deeper into Central Florida’s past. It continues a mission begun in 1942, when a small history exhibit began in the 1892 courthouse (pictured above), which occupied the site that’s now Heritage Square park next to the History Center. (That building was demolished in 1957.)
The Historical Society’s founding goal in 1971 was a permanent museum for area history and for the group’s growing collections. Success came first in 1976, with the opening of the Orange County Historical Museum in Orlando’s Loch Haven Park, followed in 2000 by that museum’s transformation into the much larger History Center in the county’s restored 1927 courthouse at Central Boulevard and Magnolia Avenue – the same downtown location where the Historical Society’s collections got their start back in 1942.
The Historical Society of Central Florida supports the History Center in a variety of ways, including its membership program. For more on the Historical Society, visit its website, cflhistory.org., in italics
To learn more about Lue Gim Gong, please read the excerpt from wikipedia, in italics, below:
Lue Gim Gong (Chinese: 刘锦浓; pinyin: Liu Jǐnnóng; August 24, 1857 – June 3, 1925)[1] was a Chinese-American horticulturalist. Known as “The Citrus Wizard”, he is remembered for his contribution to the orange-growing industry in Florida.
Born in Taishan,Guangd ong, Qing dynasty China to a family of farmers, Lue Gim Gong was interested in the United States and the opportunities that lay across the Pacific Ocean. After his uncle returned from America when Lue was 15, young Lue pleaded with his parents to let him return with his uncle to America. His parents agreed, giving him a bolt of silk to sell when he arrived. He lived in a heavily Chinese-populated area in San Francisco until the age 16 when he moved to North Adams, Massachusetts, to work at a shoe factory.
At the factory, Lue met Fannie Burlingame, who taught his Sunday School class. When she learned of his skill with plants, she asked him to live with the Burlingames is known to tend their garden. She converted him to Christianity, and helped him become a United States citizen on October 4, 1887.[2][3]
Lue had been advised to move to a warmer climate due to his recent contraction of tuberculosis. He visited China in 1886. [4] Upon his return, Fannie recommended a relocation to DeLand, Florida, where she and her sister owned land. Lue agreed, and in 1885, he was working once again, this time in orange groves. He died in DeLand on June 3, 1925.[5]
Known as the Citrus Wizard of Florida, Lue Gim Gong pioneered the cultivation of citrus fruit that transformed the industry. His experiments in the orange groves led to citrus trees that could withstand significant freeze, and fruit that could be shipped over longer distances without spoiling. With Polk Government Television (PGTV), you can learn more about your local government and community. Explore more on our website and social media, in the video published on May 28, 2021, “Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Lue Gim Gong“, below:
In the video published on June 12, 2017, “THE LUE GIM GONG ORANGE PRESENTATION“, below:
In the video published on Sep 8, 2020, “3 Lue Gim Gong Gardens and Copper Bust“, below:
Gathered, written, and posted by Windermere Sun-Susan Sun Nunamaker More about the community at www.WindermereSun.com
We Need Fair Value of Solar
~Let’s Help One Another~
Please also get into the habit of checking at these sites below for more on solar energy topics:
www.kiva.org/team/sunisthefuture
