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Beginning in the 1870s, New Yorker Frederick deBary acquired lands near Lake Monroe, built a large vacation house.
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Debary Hall had an in-ground swimming pool.
DeBary Hall was the winter retreat of a European-born wine merchant who chose the St. Johns River country for his hunting estate.
Beginning in the 1870s, New Yorker Frederick deBary acquired lands near Lake Monroe, built a large vacation house, and tried his hand at orange growing and commercial steamboating.
He completed his hunting lodge in 1871, which included an in-ground swimming pool.