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St. Cloud is a city in Osceola County, Florida, that was founded on April 16, 1909, and incorporated on January 3, 1911.

St. Cloud was created as a retirement colony for Union Civil War veterans: the Grand Army of the Republic and the Seminole Land & Investment Company acquired 35,000 acres and sold lots for just $50 each.

Within its first year, roughly 1,700 to 2,000 Union veterans had settled in St. Cloud, making it one of the largest concentrations of Union veterans anywhere in the South - which earned it the nickname 'The Friendly Soldier City.'

Many of St. Cloud's streets are named after Union states, a lasting reminder of the Northern veterans who founded the town.

The name St. Cloud traces back to Hamilton Disston's 1880s sugar plantation on the lake, which was named for St. Cloud, France.

St. Cloud sits on the southern shore of East Lake Tohopekaliga, about 26 miles southeast of Orlando in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metropolitan area.

St. Cloud's population has exploded in the Orlando growth wave: 35,183 in 2010, 58,964 at the 2020 Census, and an estimated 74,960 in 2025 - more than doubling in fifteen years.

Downtown St. Cloud preserves its veterans' heritage at Veterans Memorial Park, the historic GAR Hall, and the St. Cloud Heritage Museum.

During the Great Depression, Civilian Conservation Corps camps operated around St. Cloud, putting unemployed young men to work on conservation projects in the surrounding Osceola County flatwoods.