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DeBary is named for Samuel Frederick deBary, a wealthy New York City wine merchant who bought 400 acres on the St. Johns River in 1871 and built a hunting lodge there.

Frederick deBary founded the DeBary Merchants' Line in 1876, a steamboat service that grew by 1883 into the DeBary-Baya Merchants' Line, with 13 steamboats running between Jacksonville and Sanford.

DeBary Hall, the wine merchant's winter mansion, is now a restored museum listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and it featured one of Florida's first swimming pools.

Long before European settlement, the land around Lake Monroe near DeBary was home to the Timucuan Indians, within the domain of Chief Utina.

DeBary sits on the eastern shore of the St. Johns River near Lake Monroe, in Volusia County.

DeBary is one of Florida's younger cities - it was incorporated on December 31, 1993, after about three-quarters of local voters backed creating the city.

DeBary's population was 22,260 at the 2020 census, up from 19,320 in 2010.

DeBary has about 9,500 households, and 87% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Gemini Springs, a spring-fed Volusia County park in DeBary, was acquired by the county in 1994.

DeBary says it has maintained the lowest ad valorem property tax rate of any municipality in Volusia County since it incorporated.