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Daytona Beach

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Daytona Beach , city (1990 pop. 61,921), Volusia co., NE Fla., on the Atlantic coast and Halifax River (a lagoon); inc. 1876. Center of a rapidly urbanizing area, in a region settled by Spanish Franciscans in the 17th cent., Daytona Beach is a popular year-round resort, now noted as a spring-break mecca for collegians. Its economy has diversified to include aerospace industries. Noted for its hard, white beach, the city has been the scene of automobile racing since 1902; the annual Daytona 500 is an important event. Daytona USA, an interactive motor-sports museum, opened in 1996. Institutions of higher education include Bethune-Cookman College and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ.

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Daytona Beach

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Daytona Beach, Florida/USA Founded in 1870 by Mathias Day and named after him in 1876. To his name was added ton ‘town’ and a superfluous a, possibly to differentiate it from Dayton.

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	Daytona Beach fears its first family may leave.(Sports) Newspaper article from: The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA); 7/8/2007
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