Zellwood - Florida, US
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N 28° 43.627 W 081° 36.088
17R E 441262 N 3177900
Lt. Col. T. Ellwood Zell of Philadelphia, for whom the town of Zellwood was named, may have been one of the first snowbirds to the state of Florida.
Waymark Code: WMZ3AM
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 09/04/2018
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From an article in the Orlando Sentinel http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2010-06-13/features/os-dickinson-florida-history-061310-20100613_1_sweet-corn-festival-zellwood-resident-museum
"The community's namesake, Lt. Col. T. Ellwood Zell of Philadelphia, first made his winter home in Zellwood in 1876, about a decade after he and two other Union officers founded the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
Zell and his comrades, who met in Zell's Philadelphia office, were among those preparing for Lincoln's funeral cortege in Philadelphia during the train trip that carried the fallen president's body back to Springfield, Ill., for burial in 1865.
At its peak in the 1890s, the group they founded had more than 8,000 members and inspired John Philip Sousa to write "The Loyal Legion March" in its honor.
After the war, Zell became a prominent Philadelphia publisher and donated books to Zellwood's first lending library, begun in 1885."