Ormond Beach in Volusia County, Florida — The American South (South Atlantic)

Nathan Cobb Cottage

Photographed by Tim Fillmon, December 1, 2022

1. Nathan Cobb Cottage Marker

Inscription. The Nathan Cobb Cottage is a rare historic home built using local traditions and cultural practices in the frame vernacular style, and is one of the last standing structures erected from salvaged ship lumber and wood freight in Florida. It was built in 1897 by William Fagen using railroad ties for its walls from the wreck of the schooner Nathan F. Cobb. The ship capsized during a nor'easter storm off the coast of North Carolina which drowned two of her crewmen. It then drifted for 375 miles until it ran aground off the coast of Ormond (now Ormond Beach) on December 5, 1896. During a rescue attempt to save the surviving six crewmen, Freeman Waterhouse, a bookkeeper for the Ormond Hotel, drowned, his body never recovered. It originally included a dog-trot, detached kitchen structure, wood plank front porch with ship balustrade railing, exposed railroad ties on its exterior walls and a wood shake shingle roof with two dormer windows. An indoor kitchen, bathroom and electricity were added which modernized the cottage. It is unlikely that such a building will be constructed again since wood schooners have not been built since

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the 1920s, and almost all have been decommissioned and salvaged decades ago.
A Florida Heritage Site

Erected 2021 by The Ormond Beach Historical Society, and the Florida Department of State. (Marker Number F-1161.)

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Architecture • Waterways & Vessels. A significant historical year for this entry is 1897.

Location. 29° 17.565′ N, 81° 2.905′ W. Marker is in Ormond Beach, Florida, in Volusia County. It is on Orchard Lane 0.1 miles north of Whitman Lane. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 137 Orchard Lane, Ormond Beach FL 32176, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Florida’s First Coast.

It is also in the American South

and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

a Gulf of Mexico state,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At

Photographed by Tim Fillmon, December 1, 2022

2. Nathan Cobb Cottage Marker

least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Hotel Ormond (approx. ¼ mile away); The Casements (approx. ¼ mile away); The World War Honor Roll (approx. 0.3 miles away); The Ormond Garage (approx. 0.3 miles away); Veterans of the Vietnam War (approx. 0.3 miles away); Veterans of the Korean War (approx. 0.3 miles away); a different marker also named The Casements (approx. 0.3 miles away); Emmons Cottage c. 1885 (approx. 0.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Ormond Beach.

Also see . . . Cobb Cottage. (Submitted on December 14, 2022, by Tim Fillmon of Webster, Florida.)

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Photographed by Tim Fillmon, December 1, 2022

3. Nathan Cobb Cottage

Public Domain, circa 1900

4. Nathan Cobb Cottage Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on December 14, 2022. It was originally submitted on December 14, 2022, by Tim Fillmon of Webster, Florida. This page has been viewed 491 times since then and 73 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on December 14, 2022, by Tim Fillmon of Webster, Florida.