The mill was destroyed in the Seminole Wars, and is preserved today as the Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park.

Another tradition that features the sousaphone section is after every pre-game show at Florida State University when the section ( known by all the marching band members as " Flush ") run in a circle around the Seminole head on the field with the head drum major in the center of the circle.

Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation is located in the county.

The Third Seminole War in 1851 saw the building of a second major American fort in the area, Fort Capron, located in the area that is today's St. Lucie Village.

Seminole County (, ) is a county in the U. S. state of Florida.

The name " Seminole " is thought to be derived from the Spanish word cimarron, meaning " wild " or " runaway.

As of March 2009, according to Workforce Central Florida, the unemployment rate for Seminole County is 9. 2 percent.

During the Second Seminole War ( 1836 – 1842 ) a large sugar plantation in what is today the city of Daytona Beach was burned by the Seminole.

During the Second Seminole War an army surgeon wrote, " It is in fact a most hideous region to live in, a perfect paradise for Indians, alligators, serpents, frogs, and every other kind of loathsome reptile.

Created by the Native Americans of southern Florida, Seminole strip piecing is based on a simple form of decorative patchwork.

Seminole patchwork is created by joining a series of horizontal strips, each of which is added to produce repetitive geometric designs.

The seat of the county is Seminole.

The county is served by a twice-a-week newspaper publication, the Seminole Sentinel, as well as local radio stations KIKZ ( AM ) and KSEM-FM.

Seminole County is a county located in the U. S. state of Oklahoma.

It is named for Seminole war chief Osceola.

The county is named after Thomas Glascock, a soldier in the War of 1812, general in the First Seminole War and U. S. representative.

Route 10 is long and goes from Lake Seminole in the west to Jekyll Island in the east.

The Scout office is in Seminole.

* Seminole Springs is adjacent to Camp Kateri

Camp Seminole is the Pushmataha Area Council camp.

Micanopy is mentioned in the John Anderson song " Seminole Wind " from the album Seminole Wind.

Blountstown is named for John Blount, a Seminole Indian Chief who served as a guide for General Andrew Jackson during his invasion of Spanish Florida in 1818.

Monroe sent in General Andrew Jackson who pushed the Seminole Indians south, executed two British merchants who were supplying weapons, deposed one governor and named another, and left an American garrison in occupation.

Seminole County was one of the last to split.

Seminole County's location between Volusia County and Orange County has made it one of the fastest growing counties in Florida.

A fourth one was part of the Orange Belt Railway, which ran from Trilby in Pasco County to Sylvan Lake in Seminole County.

The giant Seminole oil field was one of the most important historical oil fields ever found.

The fort was one of over 200 forts built during the Second Seminole War.

The newspaper called the purchase by the Seminole Land and Investment Company “ one of the most important real estate deals ever made in the State of Florida .” It was reported that the officers of the company had searched all over Florida for the perfect site for a veterans ’ colony, particularly one especially suited for “ health, climate, and productiveness of the soil .” Many of the streets were named for states from which the Civil War veterans had served, and they retain those names today.

Mills, one of the early developers of the community, is credited with choosing the lyrical Indian name of Chuluota, which was possibly the name of the original Seminole village.

The Seminole County School District holds grades pre-school to grade twelve, that consists of one elementary school, a middle-high school.

The word Seminole is a corruption of cimarrón, a Spanish term for " runaway " or " wild one ", historically used for certain Native American groups in Florida.

In 1774, he explored the St. Johns River, where he had memorable encounters with aggressive alligators which he recorded in one of his journals, Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, and also visited a principal Seminole village at Cuscowilla, where his arrival was celebrated with a great feast.

Only three men survived the massacre, and one, Edwin De Courcey, was hunted down and killed by a Seminole the next day.

Kimel, Garrett and Morrison indicated that the Court's previous decisions in favor of enumerated powers and limits on Congressional power over the states, such as United States v. Lopez ( 1995 ), Seminole Tribe v. Florida ( 1996 ) and City of Boerne v. Flores ( 1997 ) were more than one time flukes.

According to one tale on the origin of the name of Orlando, Florida, Sentinel Orlando Reeves was an American soldier who was killed during the Seminole War, when he was about to fire a warning shot to his fellow soldiers.

The section south of Aloma Avenue to the county line ( less than one mile ) was acquired from the Seminole County Expressway Authority in April 1990 as part of Florida's Turnpike Expansion Program authorized by Senate Bill 1316.

Two squadrons were originally raised, one at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and one in Florida to combat the Seminole Indians.

They are captured and forced to strip to their underwear, until Poindexter ( Timothy Busfield ) tests their ethnicity by yelling " Bite my crank " at them in Seminole, to which no one responds.

It is one of several Seminole reservations in Florida.

Little had Westinghouse develop one which performed poorly in a key market for Seminole.

Just one year later, he went to fight in the Seminole Wars.

The Battle of Lake Okeechobee was one of the major battles of the Second Seminole War.

As of 2011, the college serves over 30, 000 students, full-time and part-time, and is also one of the largest employers in Seminole County.