Beyond the Guidebook: Fort Christmas Historical Park
I spent a lovely (but sweltering) July afternoon in Christmas, Florida, visiting the Fort Christmas Historical Park. It was a quiet Summer Thursday, but there were still multiple large families enjoying the park alongside me. Fort Christmas is both a beautiful recreation spot and a rich historical site. It has pavilions, picnic tables, sports fields, tennis and basket courts, and a playground, as well as a museum, replica fort, and multiple furnished historic homes and buildings. The Fort Christmas Historical Park main office A helpful employee named Laudy recommended I with the most recent 1950s Partin House to work my way back in time through over a dozen historic homes and buildings. These structures have elaborate and detailed period-accurate furnishings. The Partin House was constructed circa 1953 from pine that Emma and Dixie Partin and Robert Rouse cut and cured from nearby woods. Next, I explored the 1930s lunchroom and the Union School dating to 1906. I found myself wish
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