The future of a piece of historic land in Orange County is up for debate, but not everyone is on board with the idea to sell it.

Residents of the Gatlin community spoke out about the offer on Monday at the Orange County School Board building.

Leading up to the school system's ownership of the land built back in the 1800s, it was originally utilized by the Navy. They used it as a lab to test sounds underwater.

Once the Navy was through with it, the U.S. government turned it over to the Orange County Public School system, which used it for administration.

The Gatlin community predates the city of Orlando.

Now, there's an anonymous potential buyer who says he'd like to build a public park there, and use the old Navy building as the restroom facilities for the park and future office space

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