New Smyrna Beach Museum of History

Our museum is a historical museum dating back to pre-historic to present day. One of the galleries is devoted to the Turnbull Settlement which arrived in the new world and Florida in 1768. This was the largest British colonization attempt ...

Smyrna

In 1843 Calvin Smith became the first white settler in the area. N.G. Chase opened a store here the following year. When Dr. Wilbur Fisher, the area's pioneer physician, began operating a rural post office in 1848, he named the ...

New Smyrna Museum of History

Located in the restored 1925 Old Post Office building, the museum's Perimeter Gallery contains exhibits on local history, including Native American exhibits with artifacts and displays on the pre-European cultures of southeast Volusia County. Seminoles are highlighted as part of ...

New Smyrna Sugar Mill Ruins County Historic Site

This Volusia County Park preserves the remains of one of the sugar mills that thrived in the area in the 1800s. Seminoles raided and burned the sugar mill in 1835.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

New Smyrna Beach

New Smyrna Beach, situated between Cape Canaveral to the south and Daytona Beach to the north, may be a part of Florida's "Space Coast," but the city is hardly "new," as its name suggests. The city's long history dates back ...

Smyrna Opera House and Old Town Hall

In the spring of 1869, the Commissioners of Smyrna approved a plan to erect a Town Hall. Responding to the long-held desire of the citizens for a venue for public gatherings, architect Richard Mitchell designed the building to include a ...

Smyrna Railroad Depot

A combined freight and passenger house, the Smyrna Railroad Depot was erected in 1851, and replaced in 1873. It was a direct result of the charter granted by the State of Tennessee on Dec. 11, 1845, to the Nashville & ...

Smyrna’s First Mayor

John C. Moore

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Ulysses S. Grant was President of the U.S., and the South was still suffering from the effects of abusive Reconstruction when Smyrna was first incorporated August 23, 1872. One theory is that in the post-war era, citizens feared ...

Smyrna Memorial Cemetery

Traditional history says this cemetery was established in 1838 by the Smyrna Methodist Church. However, Wylie Flannigan of Campbell County, Ga. took title to Land Lot 522 in which the cemetery is located, on July 1, 1843 after paying Georgia ...

Smyrna Baptist Church

Organized in 1827 as Kirkland Church, the name was changed in 1836 to Smyrna Baptist Church. Title to the site was conveyed in 1849 by William I. Mixon.

Additional land was given by Thomas H. Willingham in 1882 to extend the ...