27th Avenue Park - Lake City Beach

3701 S. Atlantic Ave.
New, Florida, USA

27th Avenue Park features an innovative design, which not only enhances the beach, but also provides additional off-beach parking. - Volusia County has leased the 3.4-acre park from the City of New Smyrna Beach as part of an interlocal agreement. The facility has 130 parking spaces, beach cabanas with picnic tables, a promenade, a children?s playground and improved pedestrian beach access. New Smyrna Beach occupies a notable place in history as the site of the largest single attempt at colonial settlement in what is now the United States. Dr. Andrew Turnbull, a Scottish physician and entrepreneur, obtained a grant of land from the British Crown. In 1768 he established a colony of 1225 immigrants on the coastal plantations at New Smyrna, with a view toward the commercial production of such crops as corn, indigo, rice, hemp, and cotton. The land that the Turnbull colonists settled is located along the west bank of the Indian River, opposite one of coastal east Florida's relatively few inlets. For some 10,000 years before the arrival of the Europeans, Native Americans inhabited the ... more on GoingToTheBeach.com, Inc.

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