R e p . M i c a h o l d s a t -s h i r t g i v e n t o h i m b y g u e s t s a t t h e a n n u a l F l y -I n f r o m t h e O r m o n d Y a c h t C l u b .

 

ORMOND YACHT CLUB - 1910

 

 

The original constitution states that the "object of this club shall be to increase the sociability and general upbuilding of the town of Ormond and to promote boating in its broadest sense."

 

Among the original members:

 

John Anderson                         J. D. Price                     Charles McNary

 

J. A. Bostrom                            Lars Bostrom                F. A. Carnell

 

James Carnell                          Stanley Carnell

 

Architect - S. H. Gove (1853-1926)

 

The most prominent of the early builders, Gove planned the first Armory and built the Clarendon, the Colonnades, the Williams, the Prince George, the Ridgewood and an addition to the Ormond Hotel. He also built the school on Bay St. (Mainland Jr ?), Deland High School, the two Burgoyne homes along with many fine residences including what is now the Coquina Bed & Breakfast.

 

The little Ormond Yacht Club boathouse, built in 1910 and located literally on the Halifax River facing north Beach Street, is still standing after 100 years of hurricanes, hail, rain, and high waters.

 

The building was named to the National Register of Historic Places in June of 2005, giving it a future place in the community.         

 

 

 

Below is also a speech made at the Ormond Yacht Club's 2006 Annual Dinner.

 

It is fitting that the Ormond Yacht Club should have it's annual meeting here, at the Anderson-Price Building, where it actually all began. At the beginning of the 20th Century, this was the site of the Village Improvement Association. The men and women members had been taking care of Ormond's public streets and they had maintained a library and reading room in the small wooden building that originally occupied this site. However, the women decided they would enjoy this Village Improvement Association much better...if there were no more men. That group would later change it's name to the Women's Club. And so it was, that on a February evening in 1910, 40 of Ormond's founding fathers met on this site to finalize plans for their own club. They adopted a constitution which stated that the "object of this club shall be to increase the sociability and general upbuilding of the town of Ormond and to promote boating in its broadest sense." Among the founding members were: John Anderson and Joseph Price - builders of the Ormond Hotel, and John Andrew Bostrom - Ormond's first settler and Great grandfather (Ancestor) of current member Don Bostrom.