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old boards on the bridge as cars drove across it — it was a sound that
was indigenous to Ormond, and remembered with nostalgia by many.
The arrival of the St. Johns and Halifax River Railroad in 1886 and the
bridging of the Halifax River in 1887 gave John Anderson and Joseph
Price the opportunity to fulfill a dream of building a hotel on the
peninsula near the east end of the bridge. Stephen Van Cullen White
was again the financier, but the skeptics scoffed at the idea of
building a hotel in the wild, bear-infested woods of the Ormond
peninsula. However, the shrewd Wall Street broker along with
Anderson and Price were willing to take on the risk and in 1887 tall
pine trees fell under the woodmen's axes as the land was cleared to
build The Ormond hotel. The Ormond hotel was born...

From Kirk Munroe. COCOANUT GROVE, FLA., M ay II, lof t.
The friendship between John Anderson and myself was
almost lifelong, it having begun in Portland forty years ago and
continued in unbroken harmony to the day of his death.
In his early youth John Anderson formulated for himself a rule
of conduct from which he never afterward deviated, and which I,
for one, watched him follow through all succeeding years with ever-
increasing interest and admiration. "My best for the best" was
his motto, and he never hesitated to give his best for the
attainment of the best in whatever line of endeavor he followed.

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