The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1907-02-23
GOOD ROADS FOR
THE EAST COAST.
Conclusion of a Series of Interesting
Letters to John b. Parkinson on
This important Subject.

All manner of attention has beer, al
tracted by the series of letters on god
roads for the East Coast OF Florida
that have recently appeared in the Jack
sonvllie Times Union.
The letters We're secured through the
unti-ipg efforts of Hon. John =. Parkin-
son, of this city, the energetic and eff
cient secretary of the Florida East Coast
Automobile Association. and the series
furnish much interesting data and in
formation to the gcnclal public that Will
prove of much value in forwarding the
good roads work.
The last of the series consists of Mr..
Parkinson statement regarding roads
directly and Indirectly entering payto-
ma, and rounds out the series most adj
! mirably The Gazette News would be
pleased to publish the whole series, but
lack of space prevents. We therefore
content ourselves with Mr.. Parkinson :
4 concluding statement, as follows:
From head of Halifax river south.
over peninsula, to palatial Hotel Or
mond, a l2-mile stretch, the road run
ming within View of the river and
through beautiful hammocks, past coy
cottages, through orange groves, etc.
From Hotel Ormond down to the IA
nous racing beach is an 1S-mile stretch
to Mosquito inlet, or New Smyrna inlet
This road passes Seabrcezc, Clarendon
Inn, DaytOna Beach, with its hotels and
the many pretty cottages fronting the
ocean.
There are different roads west, across
the peninsula from the beach, with
bridges across the Halifax river at Sea-
breeze, and from both the north and
south end of Daytona Beach, all three
connecting Daytona. There is also q
road on the mainland from Ormond, six
miles to Port Orange, and ten miles
more and one is at quaint New Smyrna.
THB FOREST PRIMENAL.
This is unquestionably the prcttiest
road in Florida, and, passing rs it does
through dense wild woods, truly it is the
forest primeval.
The roads are made from she'll taken
from the ancient mounds-mounds III
which were found relics of a prehistoric
age There were bones, human skulls,
arrOWheads, pottery, etc, passing over
the foundations of Spanish forts, only
recently unearthed.
Rock foundations, covered over many
feet deep with oyster shells, give evil
dence through charcoal, bones and pot
terry that for centuries after it was used
as place where the Indians held their
annual feasts.
NEW SMYRNA TO OAK HILL.
From New Smyrna to Oak Hill the
road, twelve miles long. passes through
the beautiful orange groves Of Hawks
Park Though there is no authentic his
tory to prove it, New Smyrna is one Of
the very oldest, if not the oldest settle
ments in the United States. The ruins Of
a Spanish mission near New Smyrna,
with century old oaks growing within
the walls, shows how old this section
must be.
From Daytona to DeLand, twenty
six miles, there are fair roads, roads
often driven over in good weather.
Six miles south of DeLand is Orange
City, reached by good she'll road.
Six miles further, and one reaches En-
terprise, one of the oldest resorts on the
st. Johns river, which widenS into beau
tiful Lake George, about six miles
across from Sanford.