Landmark
Winter Park
Winter Park, FL, USA
Leafy neighborhood where a nineteen eighty-one sinkhole swallowed a house and became a lake.
This guide to Winter Park turns on one evening in May 1981, when Mae Rose Owens stepped into her backyard with her dog, Muffin, and watched a full-grown sycamore tree vanish into the ground. By morning the crater had swallowed her house whole and reached the property next door, a Porsche dealership stocked with sports cars, along with half of the neighborhood pool. Best heard standing near the water, picturing the ordinary evening before any of it began.
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