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Oglesby
DeBary SJR
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32+/- acres
located on Leisure World Drive in DeBary, with the western boundary of
the property on the St. Johns River. The surrounding area is composed
of a mixture of agriculture, single-family residential, and electric
utility uses. Historically, this property probably consisted of
sandhill or pine flatwoods, flood plain swamp and bottomland forest.
The entire sandhill or flatwood habitat has been converted to pasture.
The canopy of the flood plain swamp and bottomland forest is
representative of natural conditions with an abundance of live oak,
water oak, maple, magnolia and sweetgum. The understory of the
forested habitats, however, has been severely disturbed by cattle.
Exotics and pioneer species dominate these areas.
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. A prehistoric freshwater shell midden (an
aboriginal trash heap) was observed on the property and may be
eligible for designation as a significant archeological site due to
its similarity to two middens in Volusia County excavated by staff of
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