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At A Glance Casselberry is a culturally -enriched and dynamic city with a central location that makes it a coveted place to live in Central Florida. The City started as a vision and grew into a sizeaue suburb that pies in Seminole County approximately 13 miles northeast of Orlando. Two major roadways, U.S. Highway 17-92 and State Road 436, intersect in Casselberry, connecting the City to all of Central Florida and providing commercial corridors that give residents, visitors, and business entrepreneurs easy access to an array of restaurants and retail shops, office and commercial space, and top-rated health facilities. In 1926, Hibbard Casselberry of Winnetka, Illinois settled in the area and bought 3,000 acres of land as an investment LBER Os along a new highway (US 17-92). He turned that land into a fernery, which became one of the largest in the world, and ;F �E TOWN ;� �L this area became known as Fern Park. A general store was opened in 1928, followed by the opening of the Fern Park Post Office in 1930. Growth continued during the next . decade when a large portion of the fernery was converted � into a housing development, a water company was 4 :.f established, and a tax-free town was proposed. This proposal became a reality some two years later, on October 10, 1940, when the "tax-free" Town of Casselberry was officially incorporated and Hibbard Casselberry became the town's first mayor. The Town of Casselberry was later reincorporated as the City of Casselberry in 1965. In 1976, after 36 years as a tax-free town, Casselberry City residents voted to institute property taxes. Another change by the citizenry occurred in 1990 with the decision to replace the City's strong mayor with a Commission/City Manager form of municipal 10