The Daytona Daily News

PORT ORANGE is a pretty little village situated five miles south of Daytona on the Daytona-New Smyrna hard-surface road, the scenic highway of the East Coast. The town is located on the Halifax River, over which spans a bridge from the town to the peninsula opposite.

The town is well laid out and has many pretty homes owned and occupied by residents and winter tourists. It has several churches, one of the best graded schools in Volusia county, two general stores, a real estate agency and two or three hotels.

A large number of tourists and winter residents make Port Orange winter headquarters, one of the several attractions being the excellent fishing. Port Orange is in the orange belt and a number of very fine citrus groves are nearby, where oranges, tangerines and grape-fruit hang in profusion. Some of the best trucking land in the State is to be found thereabout and excellent crops are raised.

West of Port Orange a short distance are the remains of the old Dunlawton sugar mill, a spot that is visited every year by hundreds of tourists. At one time all the country west of Port Orange, surrounding the old mill, was a vast sugar-cane and indigo plantation. The mill operated extensively in those days but has been in disuse for thirty or forty years.

A pretty automobile or carriage drive from Daytona is via the ocean beach to the approach of the Port Orange bridge, across the bridge and then passing through Port Orange to the ruins of the celebrated old sugar mill, returning to Daytona by the road on the mainland. This drive affords a very pleasing variety of scenery.