Eatonville is a town in Orange County, Florida, United States, six miles north of Orlando. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee metropolitan statistical area. Incorporated on August 15, 1887, it was one of the first self-governing all-black municipalities in the United States. The Eatonville Historic District and Moseley House Museum are in Eatonville. Author Zora Neale Hurston grew up in Eatonville and the area features in many of her stories. In 1990 the town founded the Zora Neale Hurston Museum of Fine Arts. Every winter the town stages the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities. A library named for her opened in January 2004. The population was 2,159 at the 2010 census. The majority are African American. Artist Jules Andre Smith has done a series of paintings depicting life in Eatonville during the 1930s and 1940s. Twelve of these works are at the Maitland Art Center in the adjacent town of Maitland. Eatonville is home to WESH and WKCF, two television stations serving the Orlando television market. History A Post Office opened at Eatonville in 1889, and closed in 1918. While sources seem to disagree on the exact date and year of the town's incorporation, the town's official site provides a detailed account of the process and the dates. According to that official source, the town is named after Josiah C. Eaton, one of a small group of white landowners who were willing to sell sufficient land to African Americans to incorporate as a black town. Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is set in the town and nearby communities, many of which have disappeared with the expansion of Greater Orlando. Before the days of racial integration, Club Eaton was a popular stop on the Chitlin' Circuit, hosting performers ranging from B.B. King to Aretha Franklin, the young local Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, The Platters, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and James Brown. Mayors Columbus H. Boger Sr. ~ 1887 - 1888 Joseph E. Clark ~ 1889 - 1890 John Hurston ~ 1897 - 1899 Joseph E. Clark ~ 1900 - 1912 John Hurston ~ 1912 - 1916 Matthew B. Brazell ~ 1916 - 1920 Samuel M. Moseley ~ 1920 - 1922 Hyrum N. Lester ~ 1922 - 1924 Augustus Johnson ~ 1930? - ? Columbus H. Crooms ~ 1938 - 1963 Nathaniel Vereen Sr. ~ 1963 - 1980 Abraham Gordon ~ 1980 - 1986