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Small Towns

Scattered just outside Orlando are a handful of charming small towns with plenty of personality all of their own. Your InnHouse vacation home is the place to start your exploration of these small towns. Here are just a few.

Winter Park: Charming, is the only way to describe Winter Park. Located to the north of downtown Orlando, Winter Park offers eclectic art and distinctive scenery. Take a stroll along beautiful Park Avenue, a wonderful mix of restaurants, unique stores, major retailers, coffeehouses, and ice cream parlors all stretching along the beautiful park. Park Avenue is also host to a nationally renown art festival and several other festivals throughout the year. The world's most comprehensive collection of Tiffany glass has been gathered at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. While the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, housed in a Spanish-style villa at Rollins College, features European and American paintings from the last three centuries. After strolling through art museums, drift through history and nature on a Winter Park Scenic Boat Tour along picturesque lakes and past magnificent mansions. Tours depart several times a day, as they have for over 60 years. Scenic Boat Tours are located on East Morse Boulevard. Don’t miss the Winter Park Farmers Market, held every Saturday morning. The Farmers Market is located at the intersection of New York and New England avenues in downtown Winter Park. Shoppers are delighted with fresh produce, baked goods, steaming coffee and an assortment of plants, flowers and other goods that are available.

Mount Dora: On a high limestone bluff overlooking a lake, historic Mount Dora beckons visitors with its dozens of quaint antique shops, several turn-of-the-century bed-and-breakfast inns and the only hotel in the county to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The village has plenty of old-world charm but it is also gaining a reputation as an artsy Central Florida enclave. Newfangled gourmet eateries, stylish coffee shops and unique art festivals give the wayside traveler plenty to explore.

Eatonville: The tiny enclave of Eatonville is America's oldest African-American municipality and home to Zora Neale Hurston, a famous Harlem Renaissance writer. The town's historical significance is portrayed through churches, buildings and the Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, which rotates exhibits by artists of African descent.

Kissimmee: Walking along Kissimmee's main street, visitors can take a step back in time. The Arcade Theatre, built in 1925, and the turn-of-the-century Makinson's Hardware Store are still in use today. Representative of a typical Florida cracker-style house, circa 1905, the Spence-Lanier Pioneer Center houses a museum, smokehouse and washhouse. Next door, the 1890s Tyson House country store sells locally produced crafts. Just across the street, visitors can stroll along a wooden boardwalk through an 8-acre nature preserve.