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Originally Posted by BrianL99
"Historic Section/Area" is the greatest euphemism in the history of marketing.
Clio Awards Hall of Fame material.
Back in the 50's-60's, if you had a semi-home with wheels on it, it was called a "trailer".
In 1976, HUD changed the name from "trailer" to "mobile home".
A place where a lot of trailers/mobile homes were parked, was called a trailer park or mobile home park.
In the 1960's a guy named Harold Schwartz bought a mobile home park in central Florida and called it Orange Blossom Gardens.
In 1983, a smart visionary named H. Gary Morse took over Schwartz's business and decided if you owned a mobile home park in certain parts of Florida, you could call it a "Historic Area" and people might buy into it and overlook the obvious. Genius. Pure genius.
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The dwellings were known as "mobile homes" and NOT "trailers" prior to 1976. In 1976, there was new code for the standards of building the things, and their name was changed to "manufactured homes."
Trailer homes are an entirely different thing. Trailer homes were the things that "trailed" behind the pick-up truck. You brought it to a site and unhitched it, and there it'd be. A mobile home was brought in on a flatbed, not trailing behind it. Trailer homes, which became popular in the 1920's, fell out of favor after the advent of mobile homes.
The term "trailer park" is now usually considered a pejorative, and its residents are referred to as "trailer trash."
The Villages started as a mobile home park, not a trailer park - which would be more like a long-term or seasonal campground than a residential neighborhood.
The "historic section" is physically separated from the rest of The Villages, isolated on the other side of 441. And unlike the southern part of The Villages, which is separated from the rest of The Villages by 44 and Florida Turnpike, the Historic Section won't ever be expanded.
That can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your interests. For me, it's a great thing. There's no thru-traffic, with the exception of golf carts that want to get to Walmart or BJ's.