The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-03-03

VI L OlO OAouSC, OldhC, 44Olly A1IAl,
New Britain and Daytona, the in.
corporate city and queen of all.
Half mile south of Port Orange
then lived Granville Sharp, dying
invalid, cared for by one negro.
Here Mrs. Fleming, a woman Of un..
speakable excellence, has lately built
spacious dwelling which would
be an ornament to Long Branch and
mars not the sacred associations
OF the name of "Beth-haven :"
chosen for the place, while it does
ample honor to her deceased hus.
band, William S. Fleming, who
gathered renown and wealth else.
where, and came here to do his last
work of enterprise and generosity,
and in its glowing light exhaust the
lamp of life. The works that follow
his noble family will continue, and
the whole community will long ap-
preciate. 'A7''." -''Do7- ..
South of Sharp, at the Jerimy
Jones grove, then lived &C. Sutton.
This place is now in part owned and
occupied by w. Howell Robinson,
attorney at law, and by Mrs. and
General G. t.. Anderson who have
built large fine house and greatly
improved their part Of the grove and
given TO the place the old Huguenot
family name Of "Girard" This place
and the mile OF wilderness north
ward have been made to literally
blossom with the rose and the orange,
while the new groves Of Fozzard,
johnson, Moody, Villome and Allan
enrich the country. Their fine dwell
ings in front adorn the Halifax.
! On the south lies Rose Bay, where
idwelleth your humble servant with
patient wife and four native born
boys, in health and vigor worthy
their New England descentl Each
boy owns his "bunch" Of cattle,
parcel OF land, and growing orange
trees.
The groves and fields ia front and
Fear give Satisfactory promise for the
future, while the coloredA people, ill
the hammock, count their orange
trees by the hundred.
We next proceeded up Spruce
creek where lived only the families
OF Mrs. Murry, Jesse Brown, and
Mr.. Wickwire. Now this beautiful,
rolling country, settling up and i'm
proving, gives promise OF a glorious
future. AT the mouth OF the creek
we shared the endless hospitalitles of
Bartolo Percetta who still lives at
the charming old site, just north OF
the Inlet, now in a new and better
house with an excellent garden, and
accommodations satisfactory to
northern visitors. --.'.~'
Leaving the good things we passed
the inlet and landed tour miles south
at Mrs. Sheldon's, then thirty Years
resident at New Smyrna, the site
Of the sTurnbull Minorcan settle
ment, This noble ard good woman
with. her family occupied the only
house undemolished by the shells
OF our gunboals in the late war.
Here ended the settlements on the
southern coast, excepting those of
Scoby (colored) Futch, Captain DUN.
nit and Burnham, the latter at Cape
Canaveral, sixty miles south of the
Inlet. - lt''
Now the settlements and improve
ments at and about New Smvrna
with its stores, hotel, post office, fine
church and schoolhouse and its com.
mercial activity place it in the first
rank OF towns along the rivers, while
the whole country soulhward to
Merits Island, even to Lake Worth
and beyond has become famous for
the numbers and enterprise of it's
settlers, its fine and abundant fruit as
well as for its several towns, most
prominent OF which is Titusville, the
county seat of the new county. TO
which railroad from the st. Johns
has been built, aud tri.weekly mail
from st. Augustine has baen estab.
lished. The route is coastwise, ac.
commodating all the Intervening
places. e... 2
| Where it begins all United States
mail ended IA years ago. Then a
solitary walk Of 60 miles along a
thirsty beach to the post-ofice" Y was
deemed sufficient excuse for NOT
writing TO friends or caring to take