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Nicknamed “The Athens of Florida,” the Volusia County city of DeLand was founded in 1876 by Henry DeLand, a prosperous businessman from New York. The town is home to Stetson University, Florida’s oldest college founded in 1883 and named after its benefactor and famous hat maker, John B. Stetson. Situated on DeLand’s “main drag” of Woodland Boulevard, Stetson’s stately red-brick buildings, Greco-Roman columns and magnificent oaks exude the aura of a quaint New England college town.

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