Originating from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2010, a history harvest is a collaborative, community-centered model for collecting and sharing the stories of underrepresented communities in traditional archives. The goal is to enable institutions to promote all-encompassing regional histories. Since 2013, the University of Central Florida History Department has conducted multiple events each year, harvesting fruits in the forms of digitized materials and oral histories that are added to the RICHES archive.

History Harvests in Central Florida

The RICHES team has conducted and continues to conduct history harvests all across central Florida. In addition, our archives contain collections drawn from history harvests conducted by some of our partner projects. We keep an active list of our harvests (and have also plotted some of them below):

History Harvests conducted by the RICHES Team

• Georgetown, Sanford 2026
• Goldsboro, Sanford 2026
• New Smyrna Beach Heritage Museum 2026
• Orlando Family Stage 2026 (upcoming)
• Georgetown, Sanford 2025
• New Smyrna Beach Heritage Museum 2025
• Parramore Speaks 2025
• Georgetown, Sanford 2024
• Greenwood Cemetery, Orlando 2024
• New Smyrna Beach Heritage Museum 2024
• Altamonte Springs Rosenwald School 2023
• Georgetown, Sanford 2023
• Oviedo Colored Schools Museum 2023
• Zellwood Historical Museum 2023
• Georgetown, Sanford 2022
• Oviedo Colored Schools Museum 2022
• Oviedo Historical Society 2021
• Friends of Weeki Wachee Springs State Park 2019
• St. Cloud Historical Society 2019
• Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society 2018
• St. Cloud Historical Society 2018
• LGBTQ Museum, Orlando 2017
• NASA Tracking Veterans 2015
• Oviedo Historical Society 2015
• Parramore, Orlando 2015
• Sanford Historical Society 2013

History harvests conducted by partner projects (materials added to RICHES database)

• Apopka
• Apopka
• City of DeBary 2024
• Cocoa Beach ca. 2015
• Creative Sanford/Celery Soup Folk Life Play 2013
• Evergreen Cemetery ca. 2025
• Hungerford School 2023
• Hungerford School
• Public History Center, Sanford ca. 2013