YEAR BUILT - 1969 YEAR REMODELED - 2017
ADDITIONAL PROPERTY DESCRIPTION -
AS ALL HAPPY ENDINGS HAVE IN COMMON, THE TRACT OF LAND THAT
WOULD BECOME BAY HILL BEGAN WITH A PROBLEM – A FLUKE OF
NATURE OF SORTS. THIS LARGE TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN CENTRAL
FLORIDA, A STATE KNOWN FOR ITS SWEET PRODUCE, WITH NATURAL
HILLS AND VALLEYS, LAKES AND STREAMS WOULD NOT GROW CITRUS.
THE LAND WAS LACKING ENOUGH NUTRIENTS OR THE WATER HOLDING
CAPACITY TO GROW CITRUS ECONOMICALLY. THIS UNPRODUCTIVE RAW
LAND WAS PART OF THE VAST HOLDINGS OF DR. P. PHILLIPS, A
TENNESSEE PHYSICIAN WHO SETTLED IN CENTRAL FLORIDA IN 1897
AND MOVED TO ORLANDO IN 1905. HE BECAME THE WORLDS LARGEST
INDIVIDUAL GROWER OF CITRUS AND THE PRODUCER OF THE FIRST
ACCEPTABLE CANNED ORANGE JUICE. THE LAND WAS HOWEVER,
SURROUNDED BY THE SOME OF THE FINEST CITRUS SPREADS IN
CENTRAL FLORIDA, AND ONE OF THE LARGEST TANGERINE GROVES IN
THE WORLD.
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