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A collection of vacation villas, tree house villas, and a golf course became the Disney Village Resort in 1972. They were joined in 1975 with a relaxing, waterside collection of shops called the Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village (later called the Disney Village Marketplace and now Downtown Disney Marketplace).
The Golf Resort at the Palm and Magnolia Golf Coursesd in 1973. These courses were already made famous hosting the Walt Disney World Golf Classic, which began in 1971. The resort’s name changed to The Disney Inn in 1986, and then to Shades of Green on the Walt Disney World Resort in 1994, when the U.S. Army leased the hotel from the company in a 100-year contract. It is now reserved for vacationing military personnel.
Old-time steam trains chugged through the woods of the Fort Wilderness Campground for the first time in 1973. A form of interior transportation for campers, they were eventually decommissioned in 1977. Parts of the track can still be seen around the campground.
Discovery Island, located in Bay Lake between Disney’s Contemporary Resort and Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground, was originally called Blackbeard’s Island, but did notto Guests until 1974, as a relaxing bird retreat renamed Treasure Island. Its name was changed for the final time in 1976. It became a zoological park in 1979 when it received accreditation from the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums. Discovery Island is home to many exotic birds and animals, and participates in international Species Survival Plans for endangered animals. There is also a training colony of Capuchin Monkeys for the Boston program, Helping Hands: Simian Aids for the Disabled.
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