The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-26
PROGRESSIVE NEW SMYRNA


NEW SMYRNA is situated fifteen
miles south of Daytona and is an
ideal spot cached from Daytona by
a hard surface road winding through
one OF the most picturesque parts of
Florida.
With its ancient ruins dating back
to a time when the history of man
runneth net interlaced with wires of
the modern telegraph and telephone.
its miles o. shell streets as hard and
smooth as ! floor and over-arched bv
hoary forest giants 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 np-to-date business houses.
/ There are any number of pretty
homes for the permanent population
which nu nbers 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 divided 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 vegetables grow in abundance,
and here, too, is the home of the fam
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 a quarter miles
southwest of New Smyrna. A good
road leads to the place and the trip
can be easily made by an automobile.
Silent, in the great pine fats by the
margin OF the forest, is this place of
pilgrimage for the pious; this rem
devious for the picnicker. The ruins
are exten sive, 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 coquina, the roof being Of the
same material, cut into thin slabs
and covered with cement plaster
] Extensive gardens surrounded it
which we're enclosed by a stone
wall, portions of which still remain
Visitors usually come in parties
merry and curious but the spell O.
| the place soon falls upon them and
| they separate to sit alone, silent ano
| meditative, under the arches or be
| side the ancient well.
CORONADO
| Is situated on the peninsula opposite
| New Smyrna and is connected by
| good road and bridge over the deel
| current of Indian River. Here yo'
/ 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 ro
and reel in row or sail boat or In tn
ocean surf a short half-mile away
The great varieties of fish inhabitln
the river and lagoon pass through IN
channel from the sea beneath IN
bridge. From verandas, upper ba
comics and windows you behold IN
) magnificent river, the distant lagoon
- and islands, the forest-covered pei
II insula and the vast reaches OF tn
Atlantic Ocean.
HAWKS PARK
A pretty village located along II
Y ridge above the Indian River t"
and one-half miles south OF Ne