Daytona Beach, or simply Daytona, is a coastal resort-city in east-central Florida. Located on the eastern edge of Volusia County near the Atlantic coastline, its population was 72,647 at the 2020 census. Daytona Beach is approximately northeast of Orlando, southeast of Jacksonville, and northwest of Miami. It is part of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metropolitan area which has a population of about 600,000 and is also a principal city of the Fun Coast region of Florida. Daytona Beach is historically known for its beach, where the hard-packed sand allows motorized vehicles on the beach in restricted areas. This hard-packed sand made Daytona Beach a mecca for

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, and the old Daytona Beach and Road Course hosted races for over 50 years. This was replaced in 1959 by Daytona International Speedway. The city is also the headquarters of NASCAR. Daytona Beach hosts large groups of out-of-towners during the year, who visit the city for various events, notably Speedweeks in early February when over 200,000 NASCAR fans come to attend the season-opening

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. Other events include the NASCAR Coke Zero Sugar 400 race in August, Bike Week in early March, Biketoberfest in late October, and the

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endurance race in January.

History

The area where Daytona Beach is located was once inhabited by the indigenous Timucuan

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who lived in fortified villages. The Timucuas were nearly exterminated by contact with Europeans through war, enslavement and disease and became extinct as a racial entity through

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and attrition during the 18th century. The Seminole Indians, descendants of

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Indians from

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and

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, frequented the area prior to the

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. During the era of British rule of Florida between 1763 and 1783, the King's Road passed through present-day Daytona Beach. The road extended from Saint Augustine, the capital of East Florida, to

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's experimental colony in New Smyrna. In 1804 Samuel Williams received a land grant of from the

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, which had regained Florida from the British after the

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. This land grant encompassed the area that would become Daytona Beach. Williams built a slave-labor-based plantation to grow

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, rice and sugar cane. His son Samuel Hill Williams would abandon the plantation during the

, when the Seminoles burned it to the ground. The area now known as the Daytona Beach Historical District was once the Orange Grove Plantation, a citrus and sugar cane plantation granted to Samuel Williams in 1787. The plantation was situated on the west bank of the tidal channel known as the Halifax River, 12 miles north of Mosquito Inlet. Williams was a British loyalist from North Carolina who fled to the Bahamas with his family until the Spanish reopened Florida to non-Spanish immigration. After his death in 1810, the plantation was run by his family until it was burned down in 1835. In 1871, Mathias Day Jr. of Mansfield, Ohio, purchased the 3,200-acre tract of the former Orange Grove Plantation. He built a hotel around which the initial section of town arose. In 1872, due to financial troubles, Day lost title to his land; nonetheless, residents decided to name the city Daytona in his honor, and incorporated the town in 1876. In 1886, the St. Johns & Halifax River Railway arrived in Daytona. The line would be purchased in 1889 by Henry M. Flagler, who made it part of his

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. The separate towns of Daytona, Daytona Beach, Kingston, and

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merged as "Daytona Beach" in 1926, at the urging of civic leader J. B. Kahn and others. By the 1920s, it was dubbed "The World's Most Famous Beach". Daytona's wide beach of smooth, compacted sand attracted automobile and motorcycle races beginning in 1902, as pioneers in the industry tested their inventions. It hosted land speed record attempts beginning in 1904, when William K. Vanderbilt set an unofficial record of . Land speed racers from Barney Oldfield to Henry Segrave to Malcolm Campbell would visit Daytona repeatedly and make the beach course famous. Record attempts, including numerous fatal endeavors such as Frank Lockhart ( Stutz Black Hawk, 1928) and Lee Bible ( ''Triplex Special'', 1929), would continue until Campbell's March 7, 1935 effort, which set the record at and marked the end of Daytona's land speed racing days. On March 8, 1936, the first stock car race was held on the

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, located in the present-day Town of Ponce Inlet. In 1958, William France Sr. and NASCAR created the Daytona International Speedway to replace the beach course. Automobiles are still permitted on most areas of the beach, at a maximum speed of .

Geography

Daytona Beach is located at 29°12′N 81°2′W (29.2073, −81.0379). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of . of which is land and is water, with water thus comprising 9.6% of the total area. The city of Daytona Beach is split in two by the Halifax River lagoon, part of the Intracoastal Waterway, and sits on the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered on the north by Holly Hill and Ormond Beach and on the south by Daytona Beach Shores, South Daytona and Port Orange.

Climate

Daytona Beach has a

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(

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''Cfa''), which is typical of the Gulf and South Atlantic states. As is typical of much of Florida, there are two seasons in Daytona Beach; the warmer, wetter season (late May through October) and the cooler and drier season (November through April). In summer, temperatures are relatively stable and there is an average of only 8 days annually with a maximum at or above ; the last reading was seen on August 2, 1999. The Bermuda High pumps hot and unstable tropical air from the Bahamas and Gulf of Mexico, resulting in daily, but brief thundershowers. This results in the months of June through September accounting for a majority of the average annual rainfall of . In winter, Daytona Beach has weather conditions typical of other cities on the Florida peninsula. On average, the coolest month is January, with a normal monthly mean temperature of . It is the only month where the average high temperature falls below . Occasional cold fronts can bring freezes, which from 1991 to 2020 were seen on an average of 3.0 nights annually; however, minima below are very rare, and were last seen on December 28, 2010. Like much of Florida, Daytona Beach often can be very dry in late winter and early spring, and brush fires and water restrictions can be an issue. Official record temperatures range from on January 21, 1985, up to on July 15, 1981, and June 24, 1944; the record cold daily maximum is on Christmas day 1983, while, conversely, the record warm daily minimum is on September 1 and 10–11, 2008 and August 25, 2020. Annual rainfall has ranged from in 2006 and 1956, up to in 1953. The most rainfall to have occurred in a calendar day was on October 10, 1924, which contributed to of rain that fell that month, the most of any calendar month.

Hurricanes and tornadoes

Typically tropical cyclones pass offshore once they reach the northern portion of the Atlantic coast of Florida. As such, the hurricane risk for Daytona Beach is significantly lower than areas of southern Florida like Miami and Key West. The 2004 hurricane season was by far the most active in the Daytona Beach area in the last 50 years. However, since 1950 there has only been one direct hit by a tropical cyclone to the Daytona Beach area, Hurricane Donna in 1960. Although Daytona Beach has a significantly lesser tornado risk than areas like the Great Plains and Midwest, there have been a few deadly and destructive tornadoes in the last 100 years in Daytona Beach area. Most recently, on February 22, 1998, a tornado killed three people, injured 70, and caused $31 million in damages.

Rogue wave

On July 3, 1992, a long rogue wave hit the Volusia County beaches. The wave's range was from Ormond Beach in the north, to New Smyrna Beach on the south. The crest was high and centered at Daytona Beach. Sailboats crashed ashore onto cars and many people suffered cuts and bruises from glass and debris. Two people required hospitalization and 200 vehicles were damaged. Seventy five injuries were reported. The prevailing theory is that an underwater landslide caused the rogue wave, although others have theorized that it was the result of a squall line.

Law and government

Local government

Under Daytona Beach's commission-manager form of government, voters elect a City commission which consists of seven members who serve four-year, staggered terms. Six are elected by district, the mayor is elected citywide. The city commission establishes ordinances and policies for the city. It also reviews and approves the city budget annually. The commission appoints a

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, who carries out the will of the commission and handles day-to-day business.

Law enforcement

Law enforcement in Daytona Beach is provided by the 241-member Daytona Beach Police Department (DBPD) headed by police chief Craig Capri. In a unique and controversial program to help fund the

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program, run by a subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America, T-shirts with the words ''Scumbag Eradication Team'': ''Not in Our Town'' are sold at the police headquarters. The T-shirts contain a caricature of Retired Chief Chitwood standing next to a toilet bowl with the legs of multiple individuals sticking out. The T-shirt has been cited in at least one lawsuit against the DBPD alleging

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, the lawyer in the case in which the client sustained broken ribs and a fractured eye socket during an arrest for an open container of beer, claims the T-shirt shows the DBPD condones violence. The Volusia County Sheriff's office, headed by Mike Chitwood is a countywide law enforcement agency with 446 sworn positions, 438 civilian employees, 300 volunteers and an annual operating budget of $73 million that has jurisdiction in unincorporated areas of Volusia County and provides additional law enforcement support to Daytona Beach during such events as the Daytona 500 and aids in joint investigations of certain crimes. The Volusia County Beach Patrol provides law enforcement as well as EMT services along Volusia County beaches including the beaches in the city of Daytona Beach.

Eminent domain case

The city of Daytona Beach made national headlines when it designated the several–mile radius around Main Street on the barrier island portion of the city as a blighted area and has targeted it for redevelopment by private developers. This follows the

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decision of the eminent domain case in '' Kelo v. City of New London'', which upheld the right of municipalities to use eminent domain to take private property for redevelopment by private entities.

Federal, state, and county representation

The United States Postal Service operates a post office at 500 Bill France Boulevard in Daytona Beach. The Daytona Beach Armed Forces Reserve Center is home of the Florida Army National Guard 1st Battalion,

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, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, Battery D. Daytona Beach is part of Florida's 6th congressional district. It is part of Florida's 25th and 26th State House of Representatives Districts and the 6th and 8th State Senate Districts. Florida's 6th congressional district, which extends from the southern Jacksonville suburbs to New Smyrna Beach and includes

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and Daytona Beach, is currently represented by Republican Michael Waltz.

Demographics

As of 2010, there were 33,920 households, out of which 19.5% were vacant. As of 2000, 18.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 30.1% were married couples living together, 14.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 51.6% were non-families. Of all households, 39.4% were made up of individuals, and 14.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.06 and the average family size was 2.77. In 2000, the city the population was spread out, with 17.6% under the age of 18, 16.6% from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 19.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.5 males. In 2000, the

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for a household in the city was $25,439, and the median income for a family was $33,514. Males had a median income of $25,705 versus $20,261 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,530. 23.6% of the population and 16.9% of families were below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 34.9% of those under the age of 18 and 12.1% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.

Languages

As of 2000, English spoken as a first language accounted for 90.37% of all residents, while 9.62% spoke other languages as their

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. The most significant were Spanish speakers who made up 4.01% of the population, while French came up as the third most spoken language, which made up 0.90%, and German was at fourth, at 0.86%, as well as,

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with 0.66% of the population.

Culture

The Museum of Arts and Sciences is the primary cultural facility for Daytona Beach and Volusia County. Other museums located in the city include the

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. The Museum of Arts and Sciences is actually a collection of museums and galleries and includes the Klancke Environmental Complex, the Cuban Museum, Root Family Museum featuring one of the largest Coca-Cola collections in the world, the Dow American Gallery and the Bouchelle Center for Decorative Arts which together form what is probably one of the finest collections of furniture and decorative arts in the Southeast. It also includes the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art, which houses the largest collection of Florida art in the world. There are also changing exhibitions and a children's science center opened in 2008. Since 1952, the non-profit Daytona Beach Symphony Society has sponsored performances by U.S. and international orchestras, opera and dance companies each season at the Peabody Auditorium.

Beaches and parks

Daytona Beach has over of white sandy beaches open to pedestrians without time restrictions. Cars can be driven on some of the beaches during daylight hours. There are more than ten waterfront parks in Daytona Beach. Thong bikinis are prohibited in all areas of Daytona Beach, with a penalty of up to $500 and 60 days in jail.

Sports

Daytona Beach is home to the headquarters of the

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, NASCAR, IMSA, International Speedway Corporation, in Florida.

Motorsports

The Daytona International Speedway hosts the annual

(Rolex 24 at Daytona) and

races, among other events.

Baseball

In addition to motorsports, Daytona is also the home of the Daytona Tortugas, a minor league baseball team of the Low-A Southeast who play at Jackie Robinson Ballpark; it was established in 1993 and currently has 6 championships.

Golf

There are a number of golf courses in Daytona Beach. *

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: Two courses, North and South Courses designed in 1922. * LPGA International: The golf club offers two 18-hole courses, Hills and Jones (originally Legends and Champions).

Special events

The city attracts over 8 million tourists each year. Special events that draw visitors to Daytona Beach include: * Speedweeks (

NASCAR race, Rolex 24 sports car race, and others) * Coke Zero Sugar 400, NASCAR race held on the first Saturday of July (formerly called the Pepsi 400 and the Firecracker 400) * Daytona Beach Bike Week Daytona 200 motorcycle races, bike shows and biker reunion in March * Spring break (date varies, usually the first and second week of March) During motorcycle events ( Bike Week and Biketoberfest), several hundred thousand bikers from all over the world visit the greater Daytona Beach area. The city is also often associated with spring break, though the efforts of the local government to discourage rowdiness, combined with the rise of other spring break destinations, have affected Daytona's preeminence as a spring break destination. It is the destination of Dayton 2 Daytona, an annual event that draws over 3,000 University of Dayton college students since 1977.

Media

Newspapers

* '' The Daytona Beach News-Journal'' – Daily newspaper covering the Greater Daytona Beach Area. * ''Hometown News'' – Weekly newspaper covering the Greater Daytona Beach Area. * ''East Coast Current – Community Newspaper covering Volusia County. www.ECCurrent.com * '' Orlando Sentinel'' – Newspaper and news site based in Orlando with a bureau covering Daytona Beach and Volusia County. * ''

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'' – Student college publication of

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in Daytona Beach. * ''The Daytona Times'' – Black newspaper covering Daytona Beach * ''HeadlineSurfer.com'' – Internet-only newspaper covering the Greater Daytona Beach-Orlando Area.

Radio

AM * WNDB, 1150 AM, Daytona Beach,

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/ Talk/ Sports * WROD, 1340 AM, Daytona Beach, Oldies * WMFJ, 1450 AM, Daytona Beach, Religious * WDJZ, 1590 AM, Daytona Beach, Adult Contemporary/Newstalk FM * WHOG-FM, 95.7 FM, Ormond Beach,

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* WCFB, 94.5 FM, Daytona Beach, Urban Adult Contemporary * WQMP, 101.9 FM, Daytona Beach, Modern rock * WIKD-LP, 102.5 FM, Daytona Beach, Campus Radio of

*W231CN, 94.1 FM, Daytona Beach, Urban Contemporary "HOT 94.1"

Television

* WESH, Channel 2,

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channel 11, NBC * WDSC-TV, Channel 15,

channel 24, Educational independent * Central Florida News 13, Bright House Networks cable channel 13

Economy

A major part of the Daytona Beach area economy is involved in the tourist industry. Over 8 million visitors came to the Daytona Beach area in 2004. The area's economy includes other industries besides tourism, such as manufacturing. Daytona Beach has industrial sites within an enterprise zone and sites within a

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adjacent to Daytona Beach International Airport. Prime

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and

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sites are available with access to road, air, rail and

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. Companies and organizations that have their

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or a major presence in the area: *

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* Halifax Media Group * International Speedway Corporation * Gambro-Renal Products * Ladies Professional Golf Association * NASCAR * TopBuild * Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University *

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Shopping

* Volusia Mall, 1700 West International Speedway Blvd. The largest shopping mall in Daytona Beach. Anchored by Sears, JCPenney, Macy's, and

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. * Ocean Walk Shoppes, 250 North Atlantic Ave. Open-air shopping center, located in the heart of the beach area. * Tanger Outlets, located in the southeast quadrant of Interstate 95 and LPGA Blvd. The retail center was completed in November 2016.

Top employers

According to the City's 2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are:

Education

Primary and secondary schooling

Public primary and secondary education is handled by Volusia County Schools. Daytona Beach has two public traditional high schools, two middle schools and six elementary schools. Some of the larger private schools include Father Lopez Catholic High School. Elementary schools * Bonner Elementary * Ortona Elementary * Champion Elementary * Palm Terrace Elementary * R.J. Longstreet Elementary * Turie T. Small Elementary * Westside Elementary Middle schools * David C. Hinson Middle * Campbell Middle High schools * Seabreeze High * Mainland High * Father Lopez Catholic High School

Colleges and universities

* Bethune–Cookman University *

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* University of Central Florida, Daytona Beach Campus Vocational schools * The Airline Academy – Offers flight training for pilots and other airline professionals. *

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* Phoenix East Aviation – Offers flight training for pilots. * WyoTech ''(formerly AMI)'' motorcycle repair, and marine repair training.

Infrastructure

Health systems

Healthcare in Daytona Beach is dominated by

(formerly known as Halifax Hospital). The Halifax Hospital Taxing District was established in 1927 by an Act of the Florida Legislature as a public hospital district. There are dozens of individual practitioners and Professional Associations (PA) in the Daytona Beach area.

Utilities

Basic utilities in Daytona Beach (water and sewer) are provided by the City Government. * Florida Power & Light is Daytona Beach's local electric power provider. * TECO/People's Gas is Daytona Beach's natural gas provider

* Charter Spectrum, Spectrum and AT&T networks are Daytona Beach's local cable providers. * AT&T (formerly BellSouth) is Daytona Beach's local phone provider. The city has a successful recycling program with separate pickups for garbage, yard waste and recycling. Collection is provided by several private companies under contract to

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Transportation

Airports

Passenger airline services are located at Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB), which is centrally located within the city adjacent to Daytona International Speedway. The site was first used as an airport with terminals being constructed in 1952 and 1958. The present facility was constructed in 1992 at the cost of $46 million, and includes both a domestic terminal and an International terminal. Despite the new facilities, DAB has found difficulty in attracting and retaining carriers;

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, and United Airlines discontinued flights to Daytona in 2007 and 2008. LTU & American Airlines also serviced Daytona Beach during the 1980s and 1990s, both of which ended all flights in 1994 & 1997. Current passenger airlines serving DAB include

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(with nonstop service to Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta) and American Airlines (with non-stop service to Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, Charlotte). Both carriers offer connecting service from those cities to destinations worldwide. International flights from DAB fly to destinations in the Bahamas through air taxi and charter services Airgate Aviation and IslandPass; non-stop flights are available from DAB to Marsh Harbour Airport, Marsh Harbour, Treasure Cay Airport, Treasure Cay, and North Eleuthera Airport, North Eleuthera. Sunwing Airlines also operates seasonal flights from Toronto Pearson International Airport. DAB is also heavily used for general aviation, largely due to Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, whose campus is located at the airport. Larger airports nearby are Orlando International Airport and Jacksonville International Airport, each of which is approximately 90 minutes away.

Buses

* Daytona Beach is served by Greyhound Bus Lines, which has a terminal located at 138 South Ridgewood Avenue (US 1). The Greyhound routes from Daytona Beach connect with hubs in Jacksonville and Orlando. * Votran is the local bus service provided by Volusia County.

Automobiles

Daytona Beach is easily accessible by Interstate 95 in Florida, I-95 that runs north and south and Interstate 4, I-4 connecting Daytona Beach with Orlando and Tampa. U.S. Route 1 in Florida, US 1 (Ridgewood Avenue) also passes north–south through Daytona Beach. U.S. Route 92, US 92 (International Speedway Boulevard) runs east–west through Daytona Beach. Florida State Road A1A, SR A1A is a scenic north–south route along the beach. The Volusia County Parking Garage is located at 701 Earl Street at North Atlantic Avenue (SR A1A). The garage is strategically located, next to the Ocean Center, Daytona Lagoon, and across the street from the Hilton Hotel and Ocean Walk Shoppes. Over one thousand parking spaces are available inside the garage, which also houses an intermodal transfer station for VoTran.

Bridges

There are four bridges over the Halifax River (and Intracoastal Waterway) at Daytona Beach. They include (starting from furthest downstream) the Veterans Memorial Bridge (which carries CR 4050 traffic), the Broadway Bridge (Daytona Beach), Broadway Bridge (which carries U.S. Route 92, US 92 traffic), the Main Street Bridge (which carries CR 4040 traffic), and the Seabreeze Bridge (which carries Florida State Road 430, SR 430 traffic). All four bridges charge no Road pricing, toll to traffic. In June, 2016, the Veterans Memorial Bridge was closed as part of a three-year project to demolish the drawbridge and replace it with a high span bridge.

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Rail

Passenger railroad service to Daytona Beach was established no later than 1889 by the Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax River Railway, predecessor of the Florida East Coast Railroad (FEC). Long-distance trains such as the ''City of Miami'' and the ''South Wind (train), South Wind'' (both from Chicago), ''Champion (train), East Coast Champion'' (from New York City) and the ''Havana Special'' (New York City) made stops at Daytona Beach. Long distance routes were diverted to Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad routes on the Florida interior south of the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center, Jacksonville Union Station, following the beginning of a labor dispute on the FEC in 1963. Passenger trains continued calling at Daytona Beach until July 31, 1968, when the FEC terminated passenger operations system-wide. The FEC currently operates freight trains through Daytona Beach. Daytona Beach is served by Amtrak by way of a Thruway Motorcoach connection between the beachside and Amtrak's DeLand (Amtrak station), DeLand Station, to the west. There, the service connects northbound with train 92, the ''Silver Star (Amtrak train), Silver Star'', and train 98, the ''Silver Meteor''. Southbound connections from Daytona Beach are limited to ''Silver Meteor'' southbound train 97. The DeLand, Florida, DeLand – Daytona Beach service is Amtrak's only Florida Thruway Motorcoach route provided by a taxi-cab, rather than a bus.

Points of interest

National Historic Places

Daytona Beach looking north near Ormond Beach border

* The Abbey (Daytona Beach, Florida), The Abbey * Mary McLeod Bethune Home *Bethune–Cookman College Historic District *Delos A. Blodgett House *City Island (Daytona Beach, Florida), City Island *City Island Ball Park *Cypress Street Elementary School *Daytona Beach Bandshell and Oceanfront Park Complex *Daytona Beach Surfside Historic District *Bartholomew J. Donnelly House *El Pino Parque Historic District *Amos Kling House *S.H. Kress and Co. Building *Merchants Bank Building (Daytona Beach, Florida), Merchants Bank Building *Olds Hall *Rogers House (Daytona Beach, Florida), Rogers House *Seabreeze Historic District *Seybold Baking Company Factory *South Beach Street Historic District *South Peninsula Historic District *South Ridgewood Elementary School *Southwest Daytona Beach Black Heritage District *Tarragona Tower *Howard Thurman House *Tourist Church *US Post Office *White Hall (Daytona Beach, Florida), White Hall *S. Cornelia Young Memorial Library

Other points of interest

* Daytona 500 Experience * Daytona International Speedway * Daytona Beach Boardwalk * Daytona Lagoon Water Park *

Halifax Historical Museum The Halifax Historical Museum displays local history from 5,000 BC to the present day in a National Register of Historic Places listed building designed by Wilbur B. Talley in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. The museum is housed in the fo ...

* Jackie Robinson Ballpark * Main Street Pier * Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center and Visual Arts Gallery * Museum of Arts and Sciences * The Daytona Beach News-Journal, News Journal Center *

Southeast Museum of Photography The Southeast Museum of Photography is located in Daytona Beach, Florida, on the campus of Daytona State College. It opened in 1992, and moved to a new facility (the Mori Hosseini Center) in 2007.Ausländer, Phillip; ''Performing Glam Rock: Gender And Theatricality in Popular Music''; p. 210. Also, about half of the video for the song "Steal My Sunshine" by Len (band), Len was filmed at Daytona Beach. Daytona Beach was also the destination of a group of plagued teenagers in the movie ''Final Destination 2''. Daytona Beach was also one of the settings in the 2008 film ''Marley & Me (film), Marley & Me''. Daytona Beach was the setting of the Season 2 finale of the web series ''The Most Popular Girls in School''.

Notable people

* Duane Allman and Gregg Allman, musicians * Perry Baker (rugby union), Perry Baker, rugby player for United States national rugby sevens team, U.S. national team * Fulgencio Batista, 19th President of Cuba * Pete Carr, musician * Vince Carter, basketball player, 8-time NBA All-Star * Ed Charles, former Major League Baseball player * Bill France Sr., founder of NASCAR * Roland G. Fryer Jr., economist; In 2007, at age 30, he became the youngest African-American to be given tenure at Harvard University * Lee H. Hamilton former Indiana U.S. Congressman * Danielle Harris, actress * Carrenza Howard, baseball pitcher * Zora Neale Hurston, writer, anthropologist * Alex Kinsey, singer * E. J. Kuale, professional football player * Gary Russell Libby, art historian, curator, and former director of Museum of Arts and Sciences * Ryan Lochte, swimmer, winner of 12 Olympic medals including six gold * Martin Mayhew, pro football player and executive * Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights activist * Walter M. Miller Jr., author of ''A Canticle for Leibowitz'' * Blackbear (musician), Matthew Tyler Musto, musician * Kevin Nash, professional WWE wrestler * No Kum-sok, North Korean defector * Ransom Eli Olds, automobile pioneer * Pavlina Osta, radio host * Josef Papp, engineer * Kitty Pryde (rapper), Kitty Pryde, rapper * Fireball Roberts, Glen "Fireball" Roberts, NASCAR driver * Jackie Robinson, professional baseball player * Bob Ross, artist and television host * Galen Seaman, lawyer, Wisconsin State Assemblyman, and mayor of Daytona Beach * David Sholtz, 26th governor of Florida * Mike Skinner (racecar driver), Mike Skinner, NASCAR driver * Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, painter * Howard Thurman, author and theologian * Denzel Washington, actor * Eric Weems, professional football player * T. K. Wetherell, president of Florida State University * Robert Wright (writer), Robert Wright, musical theater writer * Aileen Wuornos, serial killer executed in 2002 * Smokey Yunick, mechanic and motor racing innovator

References

Citations

General sources

* Kettlewell, Mike. "Daytona", in Northey, Tom, ed. ''World of Automobiles'', Volume 10, pp. 501–503. London: Orbis, 1974. * Northey, Tom, "Land-speed record: The Fastest Men on Earth", in Northey, Tom, ed. ''World of Automobiles'', Volume 10, pp. 1161–1166. London: Orbis, 1974.

External links

City of Daytona Beach

Daytona Beach Chamber of Commerce

Daytona Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau

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