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First Commercial Store
This Florida Historical Marker is entitled First Commercial Store 1877 and is located in DeLand in Volusia County, Florida. The location is 110 West Indiana Avenue. Marker is on West Indiana Avenue, west of North Woodland Boulevard (U.S. 17/92), on the left when traveling west.
Inscription on the Marker
The inscription reads:
First Commercial Store. Capt. James B. Jordan came to DeLand in 1876. While serving in a North Carolina regiment during the civil war, Capt. Jordan was wounded and taken prisoner in July 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg. Following the war, he came to Florida and opened DeLand’s first commercial store in a wood building on this site. A year later, he sold all his goods – lock, stock, and barrel, – to George P. Dreka and John G. Kilkoff. This site then became the first Dreka store in DeLand. An energetic and successful entrepreneur, Dreka later built a larger store on the corner of E. New York Ave. and Woodland Blvd. in 1882. There he became DeLand’s foremost retailer. The wood building that was here burned to the ground in the fire of 1886.
Marker Sponsor and Install Date for First Commercial Store
Placed by the West Volusia Historical Society.
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The History of DeLand
More than a century before the Pilgrims set foot at Plymouth Rock, in 1513, Florida began its modern-day history, of which Orlando is a part.
During this period, Florida was still part of the United States Territory and not yet a state; therefore, many Native American tribes occupied land throughout Central Florida, including Seminole Indians who had migrated there from Georgia during the First Seminole War (1817-1818).
In 1838, the U.S. Army built Fort Gatlin south of the present-day Orlando City limits to protect settlers from attacks by Indians during the Second Seminole War. During the Civil War, Orlando’s role included supplying the Confederacy with food, cattle, and horses from the vast plantations in the region.
Today Orlando is recognized as a global tourist attraction and entertainment city
About the Florida Historical Marker Program
One of the most well-known and noticeable public history initiatives of the Division of Historical Resources is the Florida Historical Marker Program. It is intended to increase residents’ and visitors’ enjoyment of Florida’s historic places and to increase public knowledge of the state’s rich cultural past.
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