Gabriella was a small community on SR 426 about a mile north of Goldenrod, between Goldenrod and Jamestown. Its post office was established on July 31, 1886, with Sherman Adams as the first postmaster, and it stood west of SR 426 near the site of the present Progress Energy facility building. Gabriella also had a general store and lay along the Osceola & Lake Jesup Railroad, which ran from Oviedo through Gabriella to Winter Park and Orlando; the engineer sometimes delayed the train there so passengers could pick oranges and wild flowers, and a traveler in 1887 described miles and miles of orange groves. Known as the Dinky Line, that railroad survives only in the small Dinky Line Park on Lake Virginia next to the Rollins College campus. In 1888, a one-room schoolhouse was established, and J.J. Fry appears to have been one of the first teachers. Numerous turpentine stills operated in Gabriella in the late 1880s, and by the 1890s the community hosted a local agricultural fair in mid-February at Mr. F.P. Fair's packing house. In 1919, Gabriella was noted as the only community to vote against a Seminole County Commission law, by a 6-2 vote, requiring livestock to be penned or fenced. After a devastating hurricane struck the Lake Okeechobee area in September 1926, many farming people moved to Gabriella from South Florida to find a safer place to farm. Today the orange groves, turpentine stills, and wild flowers are gone, and urban development has replaced the small community that once thrived.