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This July 4th, the city of DeBary is welcoming everyone to come enjoy their holiday at the historic DeBary Hall Historic Site, located at 210 Sunrise Blvd for an old fashioned Fourth of July celebration. The festivities begin at 10am and go until 2pm with tons of activities for young and old.
This is a free outdoor party that will feature events such as a jump rope competition, a pie eating contest and a disc jockey that will play patriotic music. Refreshments will be available on site, and visitors will be allowed to bring a picnic lunch with them. Tours of the mansion are $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $2 for children ages 3 - 12, and free for children 2 and under. DeBary Hall Historic Site, 210 Sunrise Blvd., is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The site is owned by the State of Florida and managed by Volusia County's Parks, Recreation and Culture Division.
DeBary Hall was the winter retreat of a European-born wine merchant who chose the St. Johns River country for his hunting estate. Beginning in the 1870s, New Yorker Frederick DeBary acquired lands near Lake Monroe, built a large vacation house, and tried his hand at orange growing and commercial steamboating. But above all, this Florida estate became a center of sport hunting and hospitality. Entertainment," said one relative, "was a very simple matter at DeBary Hall. Most guests were asked because they enjoyed the out of doors, with swimming, hunting, and fishing." DeBary Hall also offers glimpses of larger things: America's long romance with Florida, a nineteenth-century tourism boom, orange fever, and steam boating on the St. Johns. And since local African-American and white workers kept the estate going year-round, their lives are central to the storytelling here.
Enjoy a tour of DeBary Hall, the magnificently restored Victorian 1800s hunting estate of wine importer Frederick deBary, but don't stop there. The Visitor's Center is where you can explore the historic St. Johns River in an Imagidome Theater presentation that recaps some of the history of the beautiful river and Frederick deBary's role in its development. Don't miss the DeBary Hall gift shop full of unique treasures, too. Trek along the spring-to-spring trail that traverses land owned by Volusia County and the St. Johns River Water Management District, and have a picnic in the trailhead pavilion. Fall in love - all over again - with a special place.
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