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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 295 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ORMOND  , a

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village and winter resort of Volusia county,
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Florida, U.S.A., about 68 m. by
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rail S. of St Augustine . It is situated on the Halifax
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river, an arm of the
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Atlantic Ocean extending for 25 M. along the E. coast of Florida . Pop . (1900) 595; (1905) 689; (191o) 780 . It is served by the Florida East Coast Railway . The Halifax river region is famous for its excellent oranges and
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grape-fruit . The hard and compact Ormond-Daytona
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beach, about zoo ft. wide at low tide and about 20 M. long, offers exceptional facilities for driving, motoring and bicycling; on it are held the
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annual tournaments of the Florida East Coast Automobile Association . The old King's Road, built by the
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English between 1763 and 1783, from St Mary's,
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Georgia, some 400 M. to the south, has been improved for automobiles • between Ormond and
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Jacksonville . About 2 M. west of Ormond are the ruins of an old
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sugar mill, probably dating from the last quarter of the 18th century and not, as is frequently said, from the
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Spanish occupation in the 16th century .. About 5 m. south of Ormond and also on the Halifax river is another popular winter resort, Daytona (pop . 1900, 1690; 1905, 2199; 1910, 3182), founded in 1870 as Tomoka by Mathias Day of Mansfield,
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Ohio, in whose honour it was renamed Daytona in 1871 . Its streets and drives are shaded by live oaks, palmettos, hickories and magnolias .

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