This book provides great detail on how Orange Blossom Garden (OBG) began - and by who. Then, OBG expands into Sumter County - into what we know today as - The Villages. Beginning in 1968, Albert J. Tarson bought the land for developing a mobile home park. However, it languished, causing him to sell out to the Schwartz family. Then it began to expand in Lake County until they ran out of room - crossed US-441 and into Sumter and parts of Marion County...
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