Our next stop was down the street at the Ormond Beach Historical Society where we learned that this city is called the "Home of Speed".  The race cars were brought from the north and Europe, then driven on the beach as fast as they could go to set speed records.  Flagler took over the Ormond Hotel so many of his wealthy buddies came to winter including his partner in Standard Oil, Rockefeller, who later built his own home across the street.  The story is that Rockefeller found out he was paying a higher rate than anyone else in the hotel, so he moved out!  We had lunch at La's Bistro on the land side of Ormond and drove back to Daytona Beach along the Intracoastal Waterway. 

After a slight break, we drove across the Silver Beach Bridge to the beachside to tour Lilian Place.  Interestingly, boaters call this bridge Memorial on VHF 16 to have it opened for passage.  This lovely Victorian home was built in 1884 by one of the city's first settlers -- Laurence and Mary Eliza Thompson who came from Cincinnati.  He owned a dry goods store on the land side; however, they built on the beach side and there wasn't a bridge back then.