Orlando attracts nearly 40 million annual visitors and is the largest tourist destination in America.

At 1.5 million people, only Las Vegas has a faster population growth rate in the last 25 years than Orlando.

Metro Orlando is noted for being attractive to business start-ups and expansions.

Though African American presence in the region extends back to the Civil War, until recently that community has been small and relatively quiet about its history. The city's astronomical job growth has lifted African American population from 133,000 in 1990 to nearly 200,000 in 2000, with corresponding growth in Black businesses and Black culture.

Josiah Eaton and Lewis Lawrence
Both white men had the courage and honor for that time to deed land next to Maitland for African Americans; they sold the land to a group of Black entrepreneurs; Black residents the town in honor to Eaton - Eatonville

Zora Neale Hurston
Famous Harlem Renaissance author

Tiger Woods
Golfer, perhaps the greatest ever

Shaquille O'Neal
Gregarious, once dominant center started his NBA career with the Orlando Magic

Dwight Howard

Dominant NBA center and winner of the Dunk contest as "Superman"