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FAST FACT: The historical marker for Freemanville is located just north of the entrance to the Port Orange South Daytona Chamber of Commerce at 3431 Ridgewood Avenue. Stop by and see it for yourself.

Freemanville Day Celebration
The founding of Port Orange and the beginning of the Freemanville Settlement dates to 1867 when Dr. John Milton Hawks, a Union Army surgeon, and his fellow Union Army officers officially established Port Orange after the U.S. Civil War. - http://www.portorangeimages.com/freemanville%20day%20ceremony.htm

Plaque marks Port Orange site of freed slave settlement
The marker, located on the east side of U.S. Highway 1 near the Riverside Pavilion at 3431 Ridgewood Ave, is the city's first state historic marker. - http://www.myflorida.com/myflorida/governorsoffice/black_history/settlement.html

Freedmen came to Volusia, but seldom found fortune
What started as a Promised Land ended as a broken promise. The black freedmen who settled in what is now Port Orange came by the hundreds in 1866 and 1867, right after the Civil War, seeking prosperity in a new era of freedom for blacks. Freedom they had; prosperity was elusive. - http://www.nieworld.com/special/hotcold/2001/blckhist1.htm

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