ITT: International Telephone and Telegraph Company, a major international 
conglomerate that developed Palm Coast, Florida.

Cuba: Here Mr. Clegg refers to the First Spanish Period, 1565- 1763, during 
which Cuba was supplied by colonies in Florida.

Princess Place: Groves were planted at the site that is now known as the 
Princess Place, or Princess Estate.  

Haw Creek: An early farming community settled around 1907. See: Haw Creek: 
Florida's Call to the Farmer. Dupont Land Co. Dupont, Florida.1920(?).

StJohns Park: An early farming and citrus producing community first settled in 
the 1880's. See Holland, Mary Ketus Deen, Ed. Unto This Land: A History of the 
St. Johns Park Area of Flagler County.  St. Johns Park Pioneers. Bunnell, 
Florida,1987.

Turpentine industry: Turpentine has been an important product in the area 
since the days of Spanish colonization. See: Blount, Robert S. Spirits of 
Turpentine: A History of Florida Naval Stores 1528 to 1950. Florida Journal 
Monograph, Number Three. Florida Agricultural Museum. Tallahassee, Florida. 
1993.

Rayonier Inc: A forest products company formed in 1926. They acquired their 
first pulp mill in Florida in 1939 and in 1968 became a wholly owned subsidiary of 
ITT.

Roy: A small, remote settlement in the North West corner of the county with a 
few farms and turpentine still. It has been abandoned for some time.  

Strickland Side Camp: After an unsuccessful attempt to farm this poorly drained 
area near Haw Creek, the Strickland family purchased land and began turpentine 
production. Children of the Black workers were enrolled in the one room school.

Edward Waters College: The oldest historically African- American College in Florida, 
founded in 1856 and associated with the African American Methodist Episcopal 
Church. 

Bethune Cookman College: Founded in 1904 by Dr. Mary Mc Leod Bethume in 
Daytona Beach Florida. It is a historically Black college associated with the 
United Methodist Church.

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