A: There were several structures and interesting items found throughout the property that would later become Walt Disney World. On my Spring 1971 trip to the construction site, I was shown perhaps the most unusual item discovered: the “lawnmower tree,” still located at Fort Wilderness near the Wilderness Trading Post and Marina. A manual lawnmower was left by someone at the base of a tree, which eventually grew around and through it. Nearby, on Riles Island (later Discovery Island), Bob Foster and others working on the land acquisition discovered an abandoned house (along with a dock and an operating solar water heater), which Bob describes as “a strange assemblage of rambling rooms” that had belonged to former resident “Radio Nick” Nicholson. Aside from an abandoned packing house along Bay Lake near today’s Fort Wilderness Resort—and a “not-too-well constructed house” located along the Orange and Osceola County line—another structure on the property was a “fairly newly-built house” located near an airstrip and what would become the Lake Buena Vista Club. The house, formerly owned by a relative of state senator Irlo Bronson, was visited by Walt Disney on his 1965 visit to the property and later inhabited by Phil Smith, legal counsel and the first Walt Disney World cast member, and his family until 1968. Their stories of living in the house and on the property are told in the Summer 2010 issue of Disney twenty-three magazine.