Parks in Port Orange, pg 2

....A preservation group working with the city this week bought 17 acres along the creek from a local landowner for $1.4 million, moving forward plans to turn the property into a park that will be accessible only by boat.

"It's a beautiful place," Port Orange Grants Administrator Kent Donahue said. "It's rare that something like this comes up."

For two years, the Trust for Public Land, a nonprofit conservation group that often serves as an intermediary between the state and landowners, has negotiated with landowners Bill and Betty Russell to secure the property that includes a two-story house on 11 acres of uplands and 6 acres of swamplands.

Port Orange and Florida Communities Trust split the cost and will pay back the Trust for Public Land. City officials hope to receive help with Port Orange's portion from Volusia Forever, which placed the property on its A list.

Officials plan to put a park there with a boardwalk weaving through the swamps, volleyball courts and rental of the house for meetings and receptions, but there will be no access from the road, Donahue said.

Residents with canoes or kayaks can paddle there and the public can launch from Gamble Place, a 175-acre historic site with cabins owned by the son of the founder of Procter & Gamble, which is across the creek from the Russell property, Donahue said....

Read the complete News-Journal article:
Creekside land to become park

By CINDY F. CRAWFORD
Staff Writer News-Journal
July 21, 2005

www.news-journalonline.com

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Creekside land to become park

By CINDY F. CRAWFORD
Staff Writer
News-Journal July 21, 2005
PORT ORANGE -- The city could soon have a new public park
in a hard-to-reach part of Spruce Creek.

A preservation group working with the city this week bought 17 acres
along the creek from a local landowner for $1.4 million,
moving forward plans to turn the property into a park
that will be accessible only by boat......

www.news-journalonline.com

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Cypress Head Golf Club - Nov. 25, 2002 -
My son's favorite golf course when he comes to visit us.

18 hole golf course - 6,800 yards - lighted driving range -
dining and banquet facilities.

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Gamble House
Packing house
Snow White’s house
Lookout building
Fishing dock
Canoe launch
Scenic Trails

175 acres
Taylor Road west of I-95

Gamble Place, Port Orange, $72,200. Restoration of Florida Cracker-style bungalow, citrus packinghouse, and several life-size replicas of structures from the movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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See related web sites at

http://www.echotourism.com/cultural/gamble.htm

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Please click to see the Kenneth Parker Amphitheater POI web page.

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Memorial Park, bordered by Dunlawton Ave., and Jackson Street

December 29, 2002 - 60 degrees, no wind, nice Sunday!

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Riverside Park,

Please see POI;s Riverside Park web page.

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Dec. 1, 2002 - Spruce Creek Recreational Facility -
Spruce Creek Road, South of Taylor Rd.

Spruce Creek Recreational Facility
at 5959 Spruce Creek Road.

40-acre active park -
2 lighted competition baseball/softball fields, 300ft. -
6 lighted outdoor tennis courts
outdoor basketball court - and press box.

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Sugar Mills Gardens - old Sugar mill, 12 acres of botanical gardens,
dinosaur statues, 950 Old Sugar Mill Road, Port Orange, 32119, 386 767 1735

Sugar Mills Garden, Port Orange, web site = http://dunlawtonsugarmillgardens.org./

Sugar Mills Ruins and Botanical Gardens

The "Annual Springtime in the Gardens Program", hosted by the Port Orange Historical Trust. -- April 13, 2003

Sugar Mills Gardens - old Sugar mill, 12 acres of botanical gardens, dinosaur statues, 950 Old Sugar Mill Road, Port Orange, 32119, 386 767 1735

Port Orange Historical Trust - P.O. Box 291156, Port Orange, 32129, Florida - 386 252 6133 and 386 788 2143.

President of the Port Orange Historical Trust
addresses the visitors before the start of the tour.

Mr. Cardwell has authored several books and a video tape.

The books are;

PORT ORANGE, A Great Community, volume 1

PORT ORANGE, Images of America

Both books are authored by Harold D. Cardwell Sr. and Priscilla D. Cardwell.

The video tape is PORT ORANGE, A Historic Look at Landmark Sites, volume 1. The tape "is a project of the City of Port Orange in partnership with the Florida Department of State, Bureau of Historic Preservation and the Port Orange Historical Trust."

Mr. Cardwell has also written a book about racing and has a forth coming book to be published this fall, 2003, centering on the Dunlawton Plantation.

Mr. Cardwell explained;

The two coquina stone chimneys had been covered over by cement.
The big wheel took 11 minutes to stop. Therefore, if a worker got his hand caught in the wheel, in order to prevent his whole body from being mangled in the crusher, a machete was kept nearby for such emergencies.
There were a series of kettles nearby for the sugar processing.

Diane Kilpatrick, Vice President of the Sugar Mill Botanical

Gardens was the tour guide through the gardens and plants. Some of the areas she spoke about or showed the guests were; Human sundial, butterfly garden, herb garden,
collection of palms, holly, fish tail palm and fish tail ferns,
camellia collection blooms in Feb., five kinds of ginger plants, fire bushes,
nature's chapel for weddings, bird of paradise plant, spider plants and ferns,
flower circle, Ohio match sticks, cardboard plant, and much more.

Sugar Mills Garden, Port Orange, web site = http://dunlawtonsugarmillgardens.org./

Dunlawton Sugar Mill, Volusia County Leisure Services, $61,731.
Archaeological studies at ruins of a 19th-century sugar mill, a new roof over a section of the ruins, new boardwalk, kiosks, signs.
www.orlandosentinel.com

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Also on POI web site:

Nature Around Port Orange 1

Nature around Port Orange 2

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