After the Civil War, John Milton Hawks teamed with a couple of other officers to colonize in Florida with black freedmen. Due to faulty planning and harsh living conditions, of the nearly 1600 settlers recruited in 1865 - only 9 remained on the land in 1868.
Port Orange was incorporated into a town in 1913 and named a city in 1925.
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