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Eatonville, Florida

Eatonville is a town in Orange County, Florida, United States, six miles north of Orlando. It is part of Greater Orlando. Incorporated on August 15, 1887, it was one of the first freedmen's towns, which were self-governing, all-Black municipalities in the United States (Brooklyn, Illinois, incorporated July 8, 1873, is the oldest incorporated Black town in the U.S.). The town had a population of 2,349 as of the 2020 census with the vast majority of its residents being Black or African American.