Green Springs had many owners after Cornelius Taylor first claimed these lands in 1842. Certainly the most exotic were the deBarys — NewYork wine merchants who wintered near Enterprise starting in the 1870s. European-born Frederick deBary and his . . . — — Map (db m265518) HM
The jewel of this park is its spring, a popular attraction for tourists and travel writers over the years. Green Springs (also known in the past as Green Sulphur Spring and Green Spring, without an s) struck people as exotic and strange. A guidebook . . . — — Map (db m265522) HM
In 1843 Enterprise became county seat of Mosquito County, organized December 29, 1824, and changed to Orange County in 1845. On Dec. 29, 1854 the part of Orange County east of the St. John's River became Volusia County with Enterprise as County . . . — — Map (db m276893) HM
Though it no longer exists for visitors to see, a prominent landmark once stood on the lakeshore southeast of
here. The Enterprise midden was a refuse heap for people occupying
these spring lands thousands of years ago. Its mass of freshwater . . . — — Map (db m265525) HM
The Florida United Methodist Children’s Home was established here in 1908 as the Florida Methodist Orphanage. Children come from situations of abuse, neglect, broken and dysfunctional families, abandonment and other troubling circumstances. This . . . — — Map (db m93338) HM
Welcome to Green Springs Park-a 36-acre public area with a remarkable past, a famous sulphur spring, and recreational features including a playground and trails. Volusia County hopes that your visit will be as special as the resource itself. . . . — — Map (db m265504) HM
Some watercourses in Green Springs Park are former orange grove ditches. But below this overlook flows a natural creek draining both the ditches and receiving water from the area's springs. One named spring has vanished since hotel guests . . . — — Map (db m265524) HM
On March 16. 1864 Acting Ensign Sanborn, commanding the USS Columbine of the Union fleet, which was patrolling the St. Johns River into Lake Monroe, landed at Enterprise and sent Mr. Davis and a squad of men from the 48th New York infantry to . . . — — Map (db m127266) HM
Cornelius Taylor came here from Mayport, near Jacksonville, with his wife and children, several dozen settlers, and a number of slaves. On a land grant of 160 acres, he built a cotton and sugarcane plantation that largely was Enterprise. . . . — — Map (db m265433) HM
After the Civil War, as people eagerly explored America, Florida saw a travel boom that continued for decades. One guidebook writer in 1885 called tiny Enterprise "the Mecca of tourists." Well into the 1920s, visitors bound for Lake Monroe could . . . — — Map (db m265509) HM
