Thornby Park - Deltona, FL
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Janila
N 28° 51.988 W 081° 15.311
17R E 475113 N 3193218
Thornby Park provides many things to many people, but the best part about it is the Inspiration Playground" for kids of all abilities.
Waymark Code: WMZ02H
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 08/18/2018
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From the Volusia County website:
Thornby Park was opened to public in 2001 as an all-inclusive “inspiration playground.” The city of Deltona and Volusia County co-own the park through an ECHO grant that provided funding for construction. The site is set on nearly 40 acres of wooded property and includes 1,000 feet of shoreline on the St. Johns River. The park has a large playground and gazebo and is a trailhead for the East Central Regional Rail Trail, which eventually will cross 52 miles in Volusia and Brevard counties.
Edited to add this little tidbit that I just discovered:
Following the acquisition of Florida by the United States in 1821, the Seminole had conflicts with encroaching settlers and troops throughout the Seminole Wars, when the United States tried to remove the Seminole to Indian Territory. In 1835, the Seminole burned Palatka, a major port on the St. Johns River, then the major artery into Central Florida. Consequently, the US built Fort Kingsbury, a stockade defense, in 1838 at Enterprise in the area of what is now Thornby Park, across the lake from Fort Mellon, built in 1836 at Mellonville (now Sanford).