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Oviedo began in the late 1860s as the Lake Jesup Community, a settlement of Confederate veterans, freed slaves and Swedish immigrants along the shores of Lake Jesup in what is now Seminole County.

Oviedo got its name in 1879, when Swedish immigrant postmaster Andrew Aulin named the new post office after the city of Oviedo in northern Spain, choosing a Spanish name to match Florida's Spanish heritage.

Oviedo was incorporated in 1925 with a population of about 800 people, and it has since grown into a city of 40,059 residents at the 2020 census.

Oviedo has about 13,550 households, and roughly 77% of its homes are owner-occupied, with nearly 3 people per household - a distinctly family-oriented suburb of Orlando.

Oviedo built its early economy on citrus and celery - after the great freeze of 1895, farmers turned to celery in the rich muck soils of Black Hammock, and local celery production peaked in the 1940s.

Oviedo is credited with introducing the Temple orange to Florida around 1900, when local nurseryman Butler Boston budded the Jamaica orange in area groves.

Oviedo is famous for the chickens and roosters that roam freely through its historic downtown - the whole city is designated a bird sanctuary, and the chickens are protected under the city code.

Oviedo is an unusually educated city - about 55.5% of its adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, far above the Florida average.

The Econlockhatchee River - known to early settlers simply as 'the creek' - runs by Oviedo and was a center of hunting and fishing in the town's early days.

In 2015 Oviedo dedicated Oviedo on the Park, a new mixed-use town center with townhouses, apartments, restaurants and retail just south of the old downtown.