 The area now known as the Daytona Beach Historical District was once the Orange Grove Plantation, a citrus and sugar cane plantation granted to Samuel Williams in 1787.The plantation was situated on the west bank of the tidal channel known as the Halifax River, 12 miles north of Mosquito Inlet.Williams was a British loyalist from North Carolina who fled to the Bahamas with his family until the Spanish reopened Florida to non-Spanish immigration.