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After the Civil War, the St. Johns River became a popular tourist
destination for northerners who visited to tour the river and its
tributaries aboard steamboats. By 1885, seven steamboat lines
operated out of Palatka, rivaling Jacksonville as one of the major port
cities along the St. Johns River. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant
took farewell voyages on steamboats down the St. Johns, and
President Grover Cleveland enjoyed a steamboat trip after attending
the Subtropical Exposition in Jacksonville in 1888. John Anderson
attended the Exposition in Jacksonville that year and displayed many
of the fruits and vegetables produced in Ormond.
The credit for bringing the railroad to Ormond and Daytona belongs to
two men, Stephen Van Cullen White, and Utley J. White. Although they
had the same surnames they were not related. Stephen Van Cullen
White was a wealthy Wall Street broker who had been staying at the
home of his sister-in-law, Amy Chandler Shaw, while recuperating
from an illness. Mr. White was called the "Deacon" by his business

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