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In 1877, DeLand built a public school for the town. [6] To enhance the community's stature and culture, and to enhance the value of his local real estate holdings, in 1883 DeLand established DeLand Academy, Florida's first private college. [6] However, in 1885, a freeze destroyed the orange crop.
The DeLand House Museum is located at 137 West Michigan Avenue, DeLand, Florida. Built in 1886 by Henry Addison DeLand, [2] it changed hands numerous times until it was donated to the city of DeLand in 1988. It opened as a Victorian era historic house museum in 1990. [3]
Peek was born January 26, 1900, in Palatka, Putnam County, Florida, to Gouverneur Frank Peek and Rebecca Medwin Hyde.His father died the year after his birth. [2] He and his mother lived with his maternal grandmother, Anne Elizabeth Copcutt Hyde in DeLand, and two spinster relatives Aunt Marianna Hyde and great-Aunt Anna Crook Copcutt.
The Downtown DeLand Historic District (also known as downtown DeLand) is a U.S. historic district (designated on December 23, 1987) located in DeLand, Florida. The district is bounded by Florida & Rich Avenues, Woodland Boulevard , & Howry Avenue.
It was built between 1920 and 1926. On November 27, 1989; it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.It currently contains a local history museum known as the DeLand Memorial Hospital & Military Museum, with exhibits including a 1920s operating room & apothecary exhibit, a gallery of military memorabilia, and tools, equipment and appliances from the early days of the area's ...
Her documentation was the basis of her book Altman that was co-authored with Giulia D'Argnolo Vallan. [ 2 ] In 1965 her husband made the short film The Kathryn Reed Story, for her as a birthday gift; which is now part the Robert Altman Collection at the University of Michigan's Special Collections Library.
Altman was mentioned as a potential judicial nominee in February 2018. [6] On April 26, 2018, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Altman to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. [5] On May 7, 2018, his nomination was sent to the Senate.
West DeLand is located at (29.018654, -81.328754 [ 6 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 2.4 square miles (6.1 km 2 ), all land.