The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-08
PROGRESSIVE NEW SMYRNA
NEW SMYRNA is situated fifteen

NEW SM 11tNA IS situated fifteen
miles south OF Daytona and is an
ideal spot rea he'd from Daytona by
hard surface road winding through
one OF the mo IT picturesque parts of
Florida.
With its ancient ruins dating back
to time when the history of man
runneth not, snterlaced with wires of
the modern telegraph and telephone,
its miles Of Shell streets as hard and
smooth as foor and over-arched by
hoary forest ssiants that grew in state
ly grandeur during the lapse OF by
gone centuries, New Smyrna is truly
a place of romance and rest.
All nature here is very inviting to
the tourist and pleasure-seeker Here
too is to be found the best fishing and
hunting in the State of Florida.
The people are thrifty, the bust
ness men enterprising and all unite
in extending the welcome hand of
hospitality to strangers. There are
FIVE church edifces for white people
and an equal number for the colored
population; the town has an excellent
high school, splendid public lib
rary, and ulo-to-date business houses /
There are any number of pretty
homes for the permanent population.
which nun bers close to 1000, and
some very fine winter residences.
There are good hotels and boarding
houses where you can find accomo-
dations to meet your requirements.
| Adjoining New Smyrna is as fine
section of vegetable land as can be
found anywhere. This land has
been divio ed into small farms which
can be bought at reasonable prices
Some of the finest celery grown in
the State is raised on this land. All
other veg stables grow in abundance.
Gus Indian River oranges.
New Smyrna has no bonded in
debtedness and the tax levy is low.
A point that no tourist should fail
to visit is the ruins of the Old Span
ish Mission which stand somber and
alone about one and quarter miles
southwest of New Smyrna. A good
road leads to the place and the trip
can be easily made by an automobile.
l Silent, in the great pine fats by the
| margin Of the forest, is this place of
| pilgrimase for the pious; this rem
| devious for the picnicker. The ruins
are extensive, and while there is no
authentic history of their origin, it
| is presumed that the Mission was
| built by the Franciscans in the days
| when the once powerful Kingdom Of
/ Spain first planted its flag upon what
is now American SOIL. 1t was built
| of coqrina, the roof being of the
same material, cut into thin slab:
and covered with cement plaster
j Extensive gardens surrounded it
which were enclosed by stone
|
Visitors usually come in partie
merry and curious but the spell o
the place soon falls upon them ant
they separate to sit alone, silent an'
meditative, under the arches or be
side the ancient we'll.
CORONADO
ii Is situated on the peninsula opposlt
nj New Smyrna and is connected by
good road and bridge over the dee
u current of Indian River. Here 20
\ can put aside your conventions
= sarb, breathe in large and deep tn
salty tonic Of the sea and enjoy your
self to your hearts content with 70
and reel in row or sail boat or in tt
ocean surf a short half-mile ava
The great varieties of fish inhabitiI
the river and lagoon pass through II
channel from the sea beneath II
bridge. From verandas, upper ba
comics and windows you behold Il
. magnificent river, the distant lagoon
. and islands, the forest-covered Pc
vi insula and the vast reaches OF II
Atlantic Ocean.
HAWKS PARK
A pretty village located along 4
ty ridge above the Indian River ~
I, and one-half miles south OF M
Smyrna and connected with hne sh'
roads. There is the appearance
-ooass ~or,forf and secluSiOn abe
The place which stamps it as the aoo
of people who come here 10 enl
the blessings of outdoor lie a"
r from places where crowds are apt