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The Citizens Bancorp of Oviedo Inc. Oviedo History collection, 1936-2019, is a small collection containing newspapers, photographs, books, church member directories, maps, and yearbooks. These materials, collected by the Citizens Bancorp of Oviedo, document people, landmarks, and community events relating to Oviedo, Florida in the later 20th century.

Citizens Bancorp of Oviedo Inc. records, 1946-2020 ,contain banking materials dating back to 1946, bank newsletters and annual reports, certificates, bank by-laws, emergency preparedness plans, newspaper articles, photographs, and VHS tapes and compact discs of events created and collected by the Citizens Bancorp of Oviedo. These materials document the history of the bank since it opened in 1946. After the original Bank of Oviedo permanently closed in January 1930, Oviedo, Florida residents were left without a bank in town for sixteen years. In 1945, local businesspeople applied for a new bank charter and on July 1st, 1946, the Citizens Bank of Oviedo opened on Broadway Street. By late 1946, the bank had a little over one million dollars in assets. The Citizens Bank opened an Alafaya branch in April 1986, an Oviedo Marketplace Mall branch in March 1999, and a Red Bug branch in March 2002. Additional branches were opened in Winter Park, Sanford, Longwood, and DeLand between 2007 and 2019. In 2006, the Citizens Bank of Oviedo became the Citizens Bank of Florida. In November 2021, shareholders agreed to merge the Citizens Bank of Florida into Fairwinds Credit Union.

Collection consists of research materials used by the Historic Tampa-Hillsborough County Preservation Board to designate the Citrus Park Colored School as an historic landmark.

This collection contains materials related to the incorporation efforts and preservation of history of the city of Brandon, Florida. The materials primarily comprise of documents and photographs from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.