Gemini Springs West Map - DeBary, FL
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Janila
N 28° 51.823 W 081° 18.894
17R E 469288 N 3192928
Gemini Springs Park is located on Dirksen Drive in DeBary, FL. It has a You Are Here map on each side of the park.
Waymark Code: WMZ30X
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 09/03/2018
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As with most large pieces of land along Lake Monroe, Gemini Springs possesses a rich history. From the Volusia County website:
Farming operations at Gemini Springs in the 1800s included timber, citrus and tapping longleaf pine trees for turpentine. John H. Padgett, who bought the land around the turn of the century, is believed to have built the two story farmhouse and barn we see today. The Padgett family raised cattle and grew sugar cane, operating a cane press and selling sugar juice to passengers on the trains as they passed by on the railroad to Enterprise.
Today, the Spring to Spring trail passes through Gemini Springs Park. The park offers a stop for those biking the trail filled with many things to do. One can fish, use the dog park, picnic, use the playground, and camp. Points of interest include a 9/11 Memorial, the old barn and farmhouse, the Springhouse, as well as the shell midden - the mound created by years of shells from shellfish eaten by the citizens from long agao.
This map sits on the west end of the park, opposite the Dog Park and beside the playground.