Built in 2001 the Paisley Library and Community Park are a new project roughly only a few years old. But what makes a place haunted is it the fact that its the building or is it the land that the building is built on?

The Paisley Library is just a small little building in front of a fairly nice sized park. The park has two pavilions, a basketball court, large playground and the locals had alot to do with its construction. The entire grounds are almost surrounded in Oak trees where one can get a book at the library and relax under one of them while reading. There is also another part of land behind it that is being developed perhaps to develop more businesses or expand the park in the future. 

At one time the site was used for a store built back in 1885 one of the only in that area at the time. It was operated by a man named J.C. Hethcox and Jennie Gardiner. The post office was also part of the store and Hethcox was the postmaster. Then by 1903 it changed its name from the Gardiner Store to the G.H. Gardiner & Co. 

Then near by roughly 200 feet in the 1870s a house was built Hethcox had his house built for his mother and stepfather. His wife and family lived in this house all the way till 1939 when the Hethcox family sold it to Grace Parker. Grace Parker used the house as an office, then a home with a post office.  Eventually they added an office and used it for the Parkers Realty Company. In 1945 Mrs Parker who had six children became the local postmaster and it stayed in that position for 25 years. 

So there is alot of history to the land and area here. Its amazing how at one time in the 1800s you would have stores, houses, shops, blacksmiths and churches. Then a century passes and those pieces of history no longer stand except the new buildings towns put atop of the old pieces of history which shaped the development into Central Florida. Now the only remnants that remain are the municipal building, library, and community park where lovers can take a stroll hand in hand not realizing the history which one existed to this area.

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