About Callahan
- The Dr. J.B. Callahan Neighborhood Center at 101 North Parramore Avenue began as an 1895 school for African American students, was renamed Callahan Elementary in 1952, and was renovated and dedicated as the neighborhood center in 1987. Source
- Dr. Jerry B. Callahan moved to Orlando in 1908 and was the first Black doctor to open a medical practice in the city and the first African American doctor to practice surgery at Orange General Hospital, now Orlando Health. Source
- The City's Parramore Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan describes Callahan as bounded by West Amelia Street on the north and West Central Boulevard on the south, about 286 acres with roughly 2,002 residents (the plan does not state the year). Source
- Interstate 4 (1960s) and the East-West Expressway (SR-408, 1973) cut Parramore off from downtown, and in the 1980s over 100 homes were demolished to build the former Amway Arena. Source
- The Wells' Built Museum at 511 West South Street was Dr. William Monroe Wells's hotel for Black travelers, and the Creative Village now stands on the site of the former Amway Arena and Central Florida Fairgrounds. Source