When was ormond beach established

Ormond Beach has a lot of the oceanfront advantages of neighboring Daytona Beach. It has managed, however, to keep it more quiet and peaceful. Our Facebook page has more than , followers who love off the beaten path Florida: towns, tourist attractions, maps, lodging, food, festivals, scenic road trips, day trips, history, culture, nostalgia, and more. We post articles every day. Please check it out and if you like it, we would appreciate a "like" from you. Florida Back Roads Travel is not affiliated with or endorsed by Backroads, a California-based tour operator which arranges and conducts travel programs throughout the world.

Privacy Policy. Pass A Grille is just south of St. Florida Back Roads Travel. Home Florida Towns Ormond Beach. Hotel Ormond, Ormond Beach, Florida. Vintage Postcard Ormond, Florida. Condominiums on site of old Hotel Ormond. Read on to learn more about this dynamic seaside community. Years later in , a colony was established called New Britain.

In , it was incorporated as a town and named Ormond, later Ormond Beach. The Hotel Ormond hosted many prestigious guests. Later, John D. Rockefeller would make Ormond Beach his winter residence. To remedy the lack of tourist accommodations in the area, the Bostrom brothers and their two sisters expanded their home to make it into a boarding house.

By thes, their hospitality had become well-known. Their venture into tourism had become a success. The community continued to develop. They named the village New Britain. Soon a wave of settlers arrived from the Midwest. In , when the town was incorporated, the name was changed to Ormond in honor of James Ormond II, whose 18th century plantation was located north of town.

With the building of the rail line to Ormond in and the first bridge over the Halifax River in , tourism and residential activities began to flourish. John Anderson and Joseph Price, builders of that first bridge, fulfilled their dream to build a hotel on the beachside. In , the Hotel Ormond opened with 75 rooms. In , railroad magnate Henry Flagler bought the hotel, expanded it, and in added a railroad bridge across the river to bring guests to the hotel.

Anderson and Price continued to manage the hotel during the Flagler era until their deaths in John D. Rockefeller spent several winters in the hotel until he purchased the Casements across the street in Rockefeller spent his winters at the Casements until his death in at age The hotel was demolished in Beach racing in Ormond was an idea of J.

Hathaway, a guest of the Hotel Ormond. Hathaway noted the heavily packed sand was perfect for driving his auto. In , he observed a bicycle race on the beach and became eager to stage an automobile race there also.