Bethune Beach, Florida

Bethune Beach is an unincorporated community in Volusia County, Florida, United States.

Bethune Beach is located south of New Smyrna Beach, Florida (with Silver Sands in between), and its southern border is the northern end of the Canaveral National Seashore. Due to its remote location, Bethune Beach is accessible by only one road, County Road A1A, entry being permitted only from the north. There is no outlet to the mainland, and the Canaveral National Seashore and the Kennedy Space Center lies to the south.

The area is now populated with large and expensive beach homes.

History

The town was once the only beach that African Americans were permitted to use in Volusia County during the first half of the century and is named after the famous black educator Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman College. In 2007, Bethune Beach residents overwhelmingly voted to reject an annexation attempt by New Smyrna Beach.

Municipalities and communities of Volusia County, Florida, United States

County seat: DeLand

Cities	Daytona Beach Daytona Beach Shores DeBary DeLand Deltona Edgewater Flagler Beach‡ Holly Hill Lake Helen New Smyrna Beach Oak Hill Orange City Ormond Beach Port Orange South Daytona

Towns	Pierson Ponce Inlet

CDPs	DeLeon Springs DeLand Southwest Glencoe North DeLand Ormond-by-the-Sea Samsula-Spruce Creek Seville West DeLand

Unincorporated communities	Alamana Allandale Barberville Bethune Beach Boden Cassadaga Cow Creek Creighton Eldora Emporia Enterprise Farmton Fort Florida Lemon Bluff Maytown Osteen Pennichaw Senyah Volusia Wilbur-by-the-Sea

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 28°56′57″N 80°50′16″W / 28.94917°N 80.83778°W / 28.94917; -80.83778

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/25/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.