Until the 1880s, it was an area of scattered farms and untrammelled forests that were a refuge for runaway slaves.

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About 30 minutes west of present-day Daytona, the park area (named, of course, after Ponce de Leon) offers swimming in the 72F spring, a wildlife refuge and a sugar-mill-turned-restaurant where you can make your own pancakes.

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The tented refuge includes a living area furnished with a central warming stove, fur rugs, a library and maps of the South Pole in tribute to early Victorian explorers.

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