“I purchased it because of the historical significance,” Harding said. Mildred Leavengood, who died in 2001 at the age of 104, lived in the house for 80 years.

Before reliving the walk we took, picture horse-drawn carriages along downtown Ocala, prancing past handsome, elegant homes with well-manicured yards in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It must ...