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Orlando remained a rural backwater during the American Civil War, and suffered greatly during the Union blockade. The Reconstruction Era brought a population explosion, which led to the city's incorporation in eighteen seventy-five. The period from eighteen seventy-five to eighteen ninety-five is remembered as Orlando 's "Gilded Era," when it became the hub of Florida 's citrus industry. But a great freeze in eighteen ninety-four to eighteen ninety-five forced many owners to give up their independent groves, thus consolidating holdings in the hands of a few "citrus barons" which shifted operations south, primarily around Lake Wales in Polk County . Some historians date Orlando 's name to around eighteen thirty-six when a soldier named Orlando Reeves allegedly died in the area, during the war against the Seminole Indian tribe. It seems, however, that Orlando Reeves operated a sugar mill and plantation about thirty miles to the north at Spring Garden in Volusia County, and pioneer settlers simply found his name carved into a tree and assumed it was a marker for his grave site. They then referred to the area as " Orlando 's grave" and later simply " Orlando ." Orlando , as Florida 's largest inland city, became a popular resort during the years between the Spanish-American War and World War I. The city was also host to several sanitariums, which serves as the basis for its hospitals today. In the nineteen twenties Orlando experienced a large housing boom. Land prices soared. During this period several neighborhoods in downtown were constructed leaving behind many bungalows. The boom ended when several hurricanes hit Florida in the late twenties and by the depression. During World War Two, a number of Army personnel were stationed at the Pine Castle AAF. Some of these servicemen stayed in Orlando to settle and raise families. In nineteen fifty-six the aerospace/defense company Martin Marietta established a plant in Orlando . Pine Castle AAF was transferred to the United States Air Force and in nineteen fifty-eight it was renamed McCoy Air Force Base after Colonel Michael N.W. McCoy.
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