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In 1914, a few years after John Anderson’s death in 1911, Billy Fagan
constructed a house on the remains of the sugar boiling facility and
set up a tourist attraction known as Camp Fagan. In John Anderson’s
Will, he bequeathed to his friend and foreman, Billy Fagan the
following: “Vera Cruz cottage and lot, other Ormond property, books,
rifle, etc., and Billy Fagan will also get my trusty brush-hook…”
Camp Fagan included a small
museum, a couple of alligators
to entertain guests from the
Hotel Ormond and a tree stand
where visitors could climb up
and view the area, all the way to
the Atlantic Ocean.
The Fagan era ended by the late 1920’s and the area became
farmland until the 1960’s. The Three Chimneys were but a small and
mostly forgotten footnote of local history until the late 1980’s when
local residents took a renewed interest in these archaeological ruins
and their history. Almost 100 years after John Anderson recognized
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