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Eagan DeBary SJR
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170+/- acres located on Fort Florida Road in DeBary, with the western and southern boundaries of the property on the St. Johns River. The property presently supports an agricultural activity, the grazing of cattle. Historically, this property likely consisted of flood plain swamp or marsh, pine flatwoods and bottomland forests. The flood plain was diked and partially filled during the dredging of the inter-coastal waterway. This area is still considered to be wetlands and the 10,000’ dike is breached in a few locations. The remaining areas have been converted to pasture. Large live and laurel oaks are scattered within the flood plain and pasture. A small blackwater creek flows through the northern portion of the property and discharges into the St. Johns River. A portion of the property may lie within the State’s Wekiva River Aquatic Preserve.

This tract of land was once part of 6,000+ acres that comprised the DeBary family estate in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The property is located in a zone of high probability for archeological site occurrence, due to its immediate proximity to the St. Johns River, a water body of high resource value to prehistoric and historic peoples. Two documented archeological sites may be located on the property - “Thrasher’s Shell Pit” and “Goodacres Midden”.


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