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New Smyrna Beach

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New Smyrna Beach , city (1990 pop. 16,543), Volusia co., NE Fla., on Indian River (a lagoon; part of the Intracoastal Waterway) and on Ponce de Leon Inlet of the Atlantic Ocean; inc. 1903. It is a center for citrus-fruit packing and has commercial fishing and seafood-processing industries as well as varied light manufacturing. It is also a tourist city, with 8 mi (11.3 km) of white sand beaches. A Spanish Franciscan mission was established there in 1696. Colonists arrived in 1767, but the settlement did not prosper until the advent of the railroad in the mid-19th cent. Of interest in the area are a huge Native American mound made of shells and artifacts, and the ruins of a Spanish fort (c.1565).

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New Smyrna Beach

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New Smyrna Beach, Florida/USA Caparaco, Atocuimi Originally a Native American village, the Spanish mission of Atocuimi was established here in 1696. In 1767 an unusual group of Greek and Italian immigrants, led by Andrew Turnbull, a Scottish doctor, arrived and renamed the place after the birthplace, Smyrna (now Izmir), of Turnbull's wife. Only in 1937, in recognition of the sandy beach here, was ‘Beach’ added to the name.

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