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#HistoryTuesday - Tuesday January 13TH 2026

We love old printed maps here at the Sebring Historical Society. You remember those paper maps that were folded 12 ways that we used way back in the previous century before the existence of Google. If you have any that you'd like to donate to us - then we'll take them. Local area maps are a good depiction of where we used to be at a specific time in our history.

This one is from about 57 to 58 years ago during the late-1960s. Sebring's population back then was about 7,200, and Highlands County's population was about 29,000. (The county's population has almost quadrupled since then.)

The U.S. 27 bypass on the west side of Lake Jackson was already established. The original "Bird Streets" were there, as were all of the "Car Streets".

The road that ran along the western shore of Lake Sebring was known as Lake Sebring Drive. (Now it's Memorial Drive.) Back then Memorial connected Lake Sebring Drive with Fairmount Drive.

Fairmount Drive was of course widened, upgraded, and extended a little more than 30 years later (during the early-2000s) to become the western end of the new Sebring Parkway. And of course - Sebring Parkway continued southeastward along the abandoned Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.

Sebring Parkway - once envisioned as early as the 1960s as Eucalyptus Parkway - now serves as an eastern "bypass of the bypass" to avoid U.S. 27 traffic.

And finally - there's "New High School" at the corner of Highlands and Kenilworth. It would soon be under construction - and eventually open in August of 1971 as the new Sebring High School.

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Featured Article: 1969 Map