Henry Addison DeLand
(1834-1908)

Died aged c. 74

Henry Addison DeLand was born in 1834 and visited the area that is now DeLand in 1876. He became interested in establishing a community that could become the "Athens of Florida"-‑ an educational, spiritual and cultural center and began to acquire real estate. He encouraged friends and family to the area to enter the citrus business. He gave land for streets running north and south and for a school and a church. In 1883 he established the DeLand Academy which in 1889 became Stetson University. He also founded the city of Lake Helen, naming it for his daughter. Henry DeLand died in 1908.

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