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As one of the fastest growing communities in Central Florida both in residential and commercial markets, the City of Apopka, located 15 minutes from Orlando in beautiful Northwest Orange County, is strategically located minutes from Mount Dora, Altamonte Springs, and Maitland.
Apopka real estate boasts the oldest continuously-used lodge room in the State of Florida. The "Lodge" is on Main Street just as it was in 1882, when Apopka real estate was first incorporated, measuring a mile in all directions from the Masonic Lodge.
Apopka is honored to be "The Indoor Foliage Capital of the World", and "Fern City", on account of its historic tropical fern industry. Located 12 miles Northwest of Orlando and encompassing an area slightly larger than 28 square miles, Apopka real estate is occupied by 31,000 citizens.
One tradition says the name derives from Seminole, for "potato-eating place," while others translate it as "trout-eating" or "catfish-eating"Built on the site of a Seminole village, the city of Apopka hosts orange groves, small communities, forests and farmland.
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