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Volusia County, Florida

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    Maj. Hueston Nelson Jones (1911 - 1962)
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  • Robert Paul Austin (1933 - 2014)
    Robert Paul (Bob) Austin May 4, 1933 - August 7, 2014 Robert Paul (Bob) Austin, age 81, formerly of Green Bay, Wisconsin and Hot Springs Village, Arkansas died Thursday August 7, 2014 in Daytona Beach...
  • Benjamin "Ben" Raiford Adams (1926 - 2017)
    Ben Adams (1926) Inducted 1996 Bio Born in 1926 in Deland, Ben Adams graduated from Stetson University, earning a degree in accounting. In 1949 he moved to Winter Haven, Florida, where he was involve...
  • Margaret Jones (1916 - 2014)
    From She came to DeLand with her husband Hueston and children in 1957. Margaret attended grade and high school in West Point, NE. She graduated with a degree as a registered nurse from St. Catherine'...

This project is for those that were born, lived or died in Volusia County, Florida.

Volusia County was named after its largest community, Volusia, when the Florida Legislature created it by dividing Orange County on December 29, 1854. At the time, Volusia County had about 600 residents.

The land area of present-day Volusia County was long inhabited by the indigenous Timucua and Mayaca peoples. Neither historic group exists today as distinct ethnic tribes, having been decimated by disease and war in the decades after contact with European traders and settlers. The large shell middens at Tomoka State Park and other evidence of their historic habitation can still be seen in various areas of Volusia County.

During the British occupation of Florida, a colony known as New Smyrna was started in southeast Volusia County by Andrew Turnbull. This colony was connected to St. Augustine, the capital of East Florida, via the Kings Road. After the failure of the colony the settlers, many of whom were ethnic Menorcan and Greek, traveled the 70 miles to move to St. Augustine.

The Seminole Indians, descendants of the Creek tribe of Alabama and Georgia who resisted forced relocation to Indian Territory, also camped in various parts of Volusia County. During the Second Seminole War (1836–1842), the Seminole burned a large sugar plantation in what is today the city of Daytona Beach.

On the east shore of the St. Johns River in Volusia, in present-day DeBary, General Winfield Scott established a fort/depot in 1836 named Fort Florida.

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