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Strickland describes the site: "The land was covered with a dense, tangled forest of palmettos, scrub oaks, and pine trees which Bacon cleared out with axe and grub hoe. The Bacon's first home was a palmetto cabin, but later Bacon built a small, two story house with a large coquina rock fireplace on top of the Indian shell mound."
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In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 12.9% under the age of 18, 3.8% from 18 to 24, 20.2% from 25 to 44, 27.6% from 45 to 64, and 35.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 54 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there
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Approximately one mile north on A1A, near the intersection of A1A and
Spanish Waters Drive, stands a watch tower constructed in 1942 by the Coast Guard Reserve to look out for German U-boats operating off the coast. The tower was restored in 2004 and is one of the last remaining examples of a World
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The Bacons later constructed a larger home, which still stands on John
Anderson Drive, from salvaged mahogany logs that washed ashore from the City of Vera Cruz shipwreck. The property was also planted with a large fruit grove featuring oranges, grapefruit, lemons, loquats and guavas, among others.
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living together, 8.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.9% were non-traditional families. 35.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 20.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.96 and the average family size
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Despite these early settlements, nearly all of present-day Ormond-by-the-Sea remained undeveloped until the 1950s, when the area began to develop in earnest as a retirement community. The "by the sea" appellation was used to distinguish the area from the adjacent city of Ormond Beach, located
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In 1909, the Bacons sold Number Nine
Plantation to M.C. Hillery who operated it for a few years and then sold it in 1911 to a company that had been organized by Ferdinand Nordman Jr. Nordman constructed a "jelly house" and enlarged the fruit business, selling fruit preserves via mail order to
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Among the first Anglo settlers of the area was
Chauncey A. Bacon, an architect and Civil War veteran from New Britain, Connecticut, who in 1876 purchased 172 acres (0.70 km) in present-day Ormond-by-the-Sea and named it the Number Nine Plantation. In her book Ormond-On-The-Halifax, Alice
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Though most of Ormond-by-the-Sea is little more than a half-mile wide, it supports no fewer than six distinct ecological zones. The beach, or tidal zone, features distinctive reddish-colored sand created by crushed
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For many years, one of Ormond-by-the-Sea's most distinguishing landmarks was the Ormond Pier, a 750-foot (230 m) steel structure constructed in 1959 near the intersection of Laurie Drive and
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was 1,635.6 people/km (4,236 people/sq mi). There were 5,689 housing units at an average density of 1,103.8 units/km (2,859 units/sq mi). The racial makeup of the CDP was 97.53%
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customers across the country, including New York
Governor, Nelson Rockefeller. The business survived until 1968, and the jelly house was demolished to make way for a subdivision in 1984.
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The median income for a household in the CDP was $ 34,970, and the median income for a family was $ 38,731. Males had a median income of $ 27,536 versus $ 25,357 for females. The
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By the turn of the century, the Bacons had a thriving home business selling brandied figs and their best-selling "Number 9 Guava Jelly."
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Immediately inland is the
Temperate Beach Dune, a "pioneer zone" of vegetation growing along the primary dunes. Species of note include
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1284:Lemon Bluff
1234:Barberville
1216:communities
1204:West DeLand
1151:Ponce Inlet
1112:Port Orange
1102:Orange City
1021:County seat
765:January 31,
739:January 31,
711:October 31,
621:leatherback
617:ghost crabs
565:Bulow Creek
503:other races
354: /
127: /
1379:Categories
1324:Ghost town
1264:Enterprise
1087:Lake Helen
1082:Holly Hill
827:Census.gov
691:References
685:blue crabs
663:sabal palm
613:sand fleas
521:was 2.46.
473:As of the
339:29°20′21″N
300:feature ID
232:Population
112:29°20′21″N
1341:Footnotes
1299:Pennichaw
1254:Creighton
1249:Cassadaga
1229:Allandale
1071:Edgewater
807:April 23,
674:live oaks
342:81°3′57″W
328:Geography
288:FIPS code
254:Time zone
224:Elevation
115:81°3′57″W
1279:Glenwood
1097:Oak Hill
636:sea oats
507:Hispanic
497:, 0.09%
493:, 0.50%
489:, 0.39%
485:, 0.33%
292:12-53200
1309:Volusia
1289:Maytown
1269:Farmton
1259:Emporia
1224:Alamana
1199:Seville
1179:Glencoe
1146:Pierson
1066:Deltona
832:June 4,
609:coquina
602:Ecology
322:Florida
303:0288246
189:Volusia
174:Florida
141:Country
64:Florida
1332:Eldora
1304:Senyah
1294:Osteen
1061:DeLand
1056:DeBary
1038:Cities
1028:DeLand
653:, and
627:, and
511:Latino
475:census
447:−12.1%
402:Census
186:
181:County
171:
151:
1138:Towns
495:Asian
483:White
462:−1.3%
457:7,312
442:7,406
427:8,430
312:is a
282:(EDT)
280:UTC-4
259:UTC-5
240:7,312
161:State
1161:CDPs
929:2021
834:2016
809:2011
767:2008
741:2008
713:2021
615:and
453:2020
438:2010
423:2000
411:Note
406:Pop.
298:GNIS
195:Area
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273:DST
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