DAYTONA BEACH

 

The area where Daytona Beach is today was once inhabited by the indigenous Timucuan Indians who lived in fortified villages. The Timucuas were nearly exterminated by contact with Europeans through war, enslavement and disease and became extinct as a racial entity through assimilation and attrition during the 18th century. The Seminole Indians, descendants of Creek Indians from Georgia and Alabama, frequented the area prior to the Second Seminole War.

During the era of British rule of Florida between 1763 and 1783, the King’s Road passed through present-day Daytona Beach. The road extended from St. Augustine, the capital of East Florida, to Andrew Turnbull’s experimental colony in New Smyrna. In 1804 Samuel Williams received a land grant of 3,000 acres (12 km2) from the Spanish Crown, which had regained Florida from the British after the American Revolution. This land grant encompassed the area that would become Daytona Beach. Williams built a slave-labor-based plantation to grow cotton, rice and sugar cane. His son Samuel Hill Williams would abandon the plantation during the Second Seminole War, when the Seminoles burned it to the ground.

In 1871, Mathias Day, Jr. of Mansfield, Ohio, purchased a 2.144.5 acre tract of the former William’s Plantation, on the west bank of the tidal channel known as the Halifax River. He built a hotel around which the initial section of town, today the Daytona Beach Historic District, arose. In 1872, due to financial troubles, Day lost title to his land; nonetheless, residents decide to name the city Daytona in his honor, and incorporated the town in 1876.

In 1886, the St. Johns & Halifax River Railway arrived in Daytona. The line would be purchased in 1889 by Henry M. Flagler, who made it part of his Florida East Coast Railway. The separate towns of Daytona, Daytona Beach, Kingston, and Seabreeze merged as “Daytona Beach” in 1926, at the urging of civic leader J.B. Kahn and others. By the 1920s, it was dubbed “The World’s Most Famous Beach”.

Daytona’s wide beach of smooth, compacted sand attracted automobile and motorcycle races beginning in 1902, as pioneers in the industry tested their inventions. It hosted land speed record attempts beginning in 1904, when William K. Vanderbilt set an unofficial record of 92.307 mph (148.554 km/h).[7] Land speed racers from Barney Oldfield to Henry Seagrave to Malcolm Campbell would visit Daytona repeatedly and make the 23 mi (37 km) beach course famous.[8] Record attempts, including numerous fatal endeavors such as Frank Lockhart (Stutz Black Hawk, 1926) and Lee Bible (Triplex Special, 1929), would continue until Campbell’s March 7, 1935 effort, which set the record at 276.816 mph (445.492 km/h) and marked the end of Daytona’s land speed racing days.[9]

On March 8, 1936, the first stock car race was held on the Daytona Beach Road Course, located in the present-day Town of Ponce Inlet. In 1958, William France Sr. and NASCAR created the Daytona International Speedway to replace the beach course. Automobiles are still permitted on most areas of the beach, at a maximum speed of 10 mph (16 km/h).

Source: Wikipedia

First National Bank Of Daytona (10545)

1902 $10 Plain Back Charter #10545

1902 $10 Plain Back
Charter #10545  signed by president Wm. Hankins

1902 $20 Plain Back Charter #10545

1902 $20 Plain Back
Charter #10545  Signed by C.D. Dyal, cashier and Wm. Hankins, president

The original name of the First National Bank of Daytona was the Peoples Bank of Daytona established in 1910. When a brazen robbery took place on February 27, 1917 and poor investments came to light, the first National Bank of Daytona surrendered its charter and became Daytona Bank and Trust Co.  Of the three notes known on this very rare charter, two are in this collection.

First Atlantic National Bank Of Daytona Beach (12546)

1929 $5 Type 1 Charter #12546

1929 $5 Type 1
Charter #12546  Signed by E.A. Thomas, cashier and R.E. Niven, president

1929 $10 Type 1 Charter #12546

1929 $10 Type 1
Charter #12546

1929 $20 Type 1 Charter #12546

1929 $20 Type 1
Charter #12546

1929 $5 Type 2 Charter #12546

1929 $5 Type 2
Charter #12546

1929 $10 Type 2 Charter #12546

1929 $10 Type 2
Charter #12546

Only 18 notes known on this charter #12546.

Originally chartered as the First National Bank of Seabreeze, under which there was no issue in June of 1924. The First Atlantic National Bank of Daytona Beach was adopted on August 18, 1930, becoming an affiliate of the Atlantic National Bank of Jacksonville.   E.A. Thomas signed as cashier and Richard E. Niven as president.  In 1974 the bank’s title was changed to the Atlantic First National Bank of Daytona Beach.

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