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but he had a fair sized orange grove and a large Scuppernong grape
arbor.
With the many working people coming into the area, Utley James
White built three houses in the area. Utley also put up telephone lines
and all the homes had telephone service. Railroad bridge timbers for
the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway would later
be cut from the Haw Creek section and manufactured in the Utley J.
White sawmill at Dupont. Cornelius Augustus DuPont, a former
butcher and horse trader who is linked to one of many branches of
DuPont family trees in this part of Florida, got things started in the
1890s with a mill and timber operation.

The early train route traveled through Windemere where settlers were
already raising cattle. Rail transportation spawned tremendous
growth in timber and turpentine production in this area, now known
as Espanola. Tram railroads built by Utley J. White extended into
remote areas of what would later become Flagler County, serving the

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