1911 –The legislature passed the Sanford Charter Bill, and the town of Goldsboro in Seminole County was dissolved. Historical Goldsboro was founded in 1891 as the second all African American town in the State of Florida, Historic Eatonville being the first. Registered voters in what had been the village of Goldsboro met on Dec. 1, 1891, at a store opened by William Clark in 1886. The year after incorporation, the first community school was opened, a post office was established and Zion Methodist became the first church. Goldsboro, with its own US Post Office, City Government, Tax collector, Jail, and Business District had a very short existence. The town of Goldsboro blocked the city of Sanford from expanding to the west. So, on April 6, 1911, Sanford passed a resolution of its intent to absorb Goldsboro. When the town would not voluntarily give up its charter, Forrest Lake, then a state representative, persuaded the Legislature to take away the charters of Sanford and Goldsboro and reorganize Sanford to include Goldsboro. Despite impassioned pleas from Goldsboro officials that were published in the Sanford Herald, the Legislature passed the Sanford Charter Bill. Zora Neale Hurston interviewed Clark, who served as the town's tax collector and built some of the first houses, to chronicle Goldsboro's 20 years of self-government for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Projects. Sanford pledged to pay Goldsboro's debts within 90 days, but Clark told Hurston in 1936 that he still held "a mass of jumbled yellow papers" representing $10,375.90 in unpaid debts. Sanford changed the names of Goldsboro's streets, including renaming Clark Street as Lake Avenue for the man who engineered the town's demise. The history of the town is now kept alive at the Goldsboro Westside Historical Museum.