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GENERAL
Established in 1867 on the banks of the HalifaxRiver, Port Orange as a community has a long and proud history. It retained a resort-like character and a relatively stable population for well over a century. Not until the mid 1970´s when Dunlawton Avenue was extended from the FEC railroad to Interstate 95, did Port Orange begin to blossom into the large metropolitan community that it is today with a population over 50,000.Careful planning initiatives have yielded rather than compromised - beauty and opportunity. A mere walk, bike ride, or drive through our community reveals its uniqueness and that our residents are part of a distinct and very proud family. This family, which we call Port Orange, is made up of some 150 distinct "neighborhoods". They are the core of this community, making it a great place in which to live, learn, work, and play. Because of the City´s highly regarded development approach, an investment in Port Orange is a secure investment. Port Orange is a community characterized by a stable and successful business climate which develops, nurtures, and embraces quality businesses. And so today, as we celebrate over 135 years as a community, we are proud to call Port Orange "our home".
HISTORY
Port Orange´s history is rich and unique. Starting with the prehistoric peoples of the land, namely the Timucuan and Seminole Indians, and with Dr. Andrew Turnbull´s New Smyrna Colony in 1768 during Florida´s plantation period, this area was full of explorers and efforts to tame this wild, unforgiving environment. Beside the New Smyrna Colony, another attempt to transform this area into a viable cash crop producing land came when Patrick Dean was granted 995 acres in 1804 from the Spanish Crown which later was named the Dunlawton Plantation. The Dunlawton Sugar Mill on Old Sugar Mill Road still stands having withstood these many years and being destroyed twice by Seminole Indians during the Second Seminole Indian War of 1836.
The second major era for Port Orange occurred after the Civil War. Dr. John Milton Hawks, an abolitionist and United States Army Surgeon, along with other Union Army officers formed the FloridaLand and Lumber Company and brought 500 freed slaves to public lands along the HalifaxRiver, north of Spruce Creek in 1866. Dr. Hawks moved the settlement he was credited with naming OrangePort in February 1867 from the Mosquito Inlet (Ponce Inlet) to where the community lies today. By April 1867, not only did the settlement´s name change to Port Orange because another town in the United States already had the former name, but the fortunes of the settlement had changed as well. Only nine families remained by 1869 and the hopes and dreams of those freed slaves for a new life went with the economic decline of the settlement due to poor planning and unproductive harvests.
What did remain was the settlement´s African-American roots. Unofficially known as Freemanville and now located around the intersection of Orange Avenue and Charles Street, all that remains of this small freed slave community today is the Mount Moriah Baptist Church (built in 1911) on Orange Ave. which still provides a place of worship to the descendants of those original settlers.
STATISTICS
POPULATION:
(Projected)
19982000
Port Orange44,03351,700
South Daytona13,11015,872
CLIMATE:
Average Temperature
January57.9 degrees Fahrenheit
July81.1 degrees Fahrenheit
Average Annual Rainfall48.46 inches
LOCATION:
115 miles south of Jacksonville, 54 miles northeast of Orlando and 60 miles north of the Kennedy Space Center
SERVICES:
BellSouth Telephone
Florida Power & Light
Municipal Utilities
TAXES:
Retail Sales Tax - 6%
Personal Income Tax - None
Corporate Income Tax, State - 5.5%
Corporate Income Tax, Local - None
State and Local Fuel Taxes - 16.7 cents
Local Real Estate Taxes (range for the two cities) - 22.859 to 23.6613 mills.
