Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Casselberry, FL

Casselberry is a city in Seminole County in the Orlando metropolitan area, built out of Central Florida's old fern-growing country.

The city is named for Hibbard Casselberry, a World War I veteran from Winnetka, Illinois, who arrived in 1926 as a sales agent for Fern Park Estates and went on to buy hundreds of acres around the Triplet Chain of Lakes for ferneries and development.

Casselberry was incorporated on October 10, 1940, as a deliberately tax-free town, after Hibbard Casselberry convinced residents that incorporating was the best way to avoid paying property taxes.

The town operated without real estate taxes for decades; it was reincorporated as the City of Casselberry on July 25, 1965, and voters did not reinstate property taxes until 1976.

Because federal policy prohibited naming a post office after a living person, the U.S. Postal Service refused Casselberry its own post office for years, and the town only received one in 1959.

A blockhouse called Fort Concord was built on the shores of Lake Concord in 1849 to protect settlers during the Seminole Wars, long before the city existed.

Casselberry is dotted with over 30 lakes and ponds, the largest of which is Lake Howell, along with the Triplet Chain of Lakes, Lake Kathryn, and Lake Concord.

Casselberry had a population of 28,794 at the 2020 census, with about 13,500 households, and roughly 60 percent of its homes are owner-occupied.