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Originally Posted by rustyp
Background - the Morse family hired an architectural firm to design the town of Spanish Springs. The firm required the Morse's to write a fictitious story about how the town was settled. I purchased my house from a Villages Employee who was here in 1989. In the house I found a copy of the 13 page manuscript of that story created by the Morse's that cover settlement of Spanish Springs from 1787 to 1903. The names painted on most of the buildings in SS have a significance in that story of the settlement of fictitious Spanish Springs.
There is a very small mention to people you are asking about.
"Riding a wave of profits generated by trade with the Confederacy as well as Spanish Cuba, the Cattleman's Association of Spanish Springs, led by Adam McCall. builds its headquarters and administration center on Main Street in 1868. That same year a gentleman named H.G. Seymour is named "Cattleman Of The Year" at the association's annual South Fork Barbeque."
My assumption would be the two first names would be his children although it does not say that. FYI look above Margareta Republic at the stop sign on Main Street and you will see the building is the Cattleman's Association.
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I found a couple pictures. The Cattleman's Association (1868) is above the breezeway between Margareta's and Kelwin's. On the square side of Margareta's second floor is the Citrus Exchange building (1890). Fictitious story reveals the Citrus growers feel their industry is becoming more powerful than the cattle industry in the local area. The growers president, Maclyn O'Malley has the tower added on to the second floor making their building taller than the cattleman's simply for show.
