{"id":310,"date":"2013-02-20T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davesfloridavilla.com\/private-villa-blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2013-05-10T22:11:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T22:11:32","slug":"historic-downtown-kissimmee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davesfloridavilla.com\/private-villa-blog\/historic-downtown-kissimmee\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Downtown Kissimmee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historic Downtown Kissimmee (not spelled Kisimmee or Kissimee or any other variation!)\u00a0is situated in Osceola County, Florida, United States.\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth a visit on a quiet day inbetween visiting the main Florida attractions and theme parks.\u00a0 With a character of its own, a few hours can be spent relaxing and seeing what Kissimmee has to offer.\u00a0 Lake Tohopekaliga also offers a few sights and variety to break up your vacation, why not try some <a title=\"Kissimmee lake front\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lakefrontpark.org\/lakefront\/\">bass fishing<\/a>?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_440\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davesfloridavilla.com\/private-villa-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kissimmee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-440\" title=\"kissimmee\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davesfloridavilla.com\/private-villa-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kissimmee.jpg?resize=263%2C192\" alt=\"kissimmee\" width=\"263\" height=\"192\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">kissimmee<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Historic Downtown Kissimmee is part of a redevelopment programme, offering great shopping, places to eat, restaurants, however whilst it doesn&#8217;t have the charm of <a title=\"Celebration Disney\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davesfloridavilla.com\/private-villa-blog\/celebration-disney-whats-all-the-fuss-about\/\">Celebration <\/a>it certainly has a bit more history to it.\u00a0 There is a farmers market (as of 2013 this is on Tuesdays from 4pm), and loads of restaurants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 Sisters Speakeasy (226 Broadway)<\/li>\n<li>Azteca`s Mexican Restaurant (809 N. Main St.)<\/li>\n<li>Breck`s Gourmet Cookies (24B Broadway)<\/li>\n<li>Taqueria Tres Amigos (231 Broadway)<\/li>\n<li>Broadway Pizza Bar (403 Broadway)<\/li>\n<li>Savion\u2019s Place (16 E. Dakin Ave)<\/li>\n<li>Susan`s Courtside Cafe (18 S. Orlando Ave.)<\/li>\n<li>Joanie`s Diner (120 Broadway)<\/li>\n<li>Mrs. Mac`s Restaurant (215 Broadway)<\/li>\n<li>Nadia\u2019s Cafe (15 Broadway)<\/li>\n<li>Natures Table (214 Broadway)<\/li>\n<li>Nene\u2019s Restaurant (324 Broadway)<\/li>\n<li>Olga`s Restaurant (708 N. Main St.)<\/li>\n<li>Pure Magic Ice Cream (520 North Main Street)<\/li>\n<li>Robinson`s Coffee Shop and Diner (114 Broadway.)<\/li>\n<li>Teresa`s Bar &amp; Grill (219 Broadway)<\/li>\n<li>Vintage Vino Wine Bar (14 E. Dakin Ave)<\/li>\n<li>Wicked Step Sister (7 E. Dakin Ave)<\/li>\n<li>Willy\u2019s Wieners (108 E Dakin Ave)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Historic Downtown Kissimmee History<\/h2>\n<p>The history of Kissimmee (previously named Allendale)\u00a0mainly lies with a chap called Hamilton Disston.\u00a0 Southern Florida was mostly underwater in the 1800&#8217;s and Hamilton agreed to dredge and drain the land in exchange for half of everything he reclaimed.\u00a0 This injected money into the state and a trading route was established to the gulf of Mexico along the river Kissimmee.\u00a0 History shows that the main trade was citrus although cattle ranches were also a fairly dominant industry when big freezes ruined citrus crops in the early 1900s.<\/p>\n<p>Retirements in the US population were encouraged to settle in Kissimmee &#8211; boosting the population until Walt Disney World came along in the early 1970&#8217;s, at which point Kissimmee doubled in population due to the staff required at the theme park.<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at the <a title=\"kissimmee main street\" href=\"http:\/\/kissimmeemainstreet.wordpress.com\/\">Kissimmee main street <\/a>website for more touring information.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 11px; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal; margin: 10px; padding: 0; line-height: normal;\"><a style=\"border: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dwellable.com\/a\/1445\/Florida\/Disney-Orlando\/Kissimmee\/Vacation-Rentals\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 102px; height: 20px; border: none; margin: 0; padding: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dwellable.com\/dwellback\/1445.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nKissimmee on Dwellable<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic Downtown Kissimmee (not spelled Kisimmee or Kissimee or any other variation!)\u00a0is situated in Osceola County, Florida, United States.\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth a visit on a quiet day inbetween visiting the main Florida attractions and theme parks.\u00a0 With a character of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davesfloridavilla.com\/private-villa-blog\/historic-downtown-kissimmee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[87,79,13],"tags":[177,174,172,173,175,176],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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