Mission

We are a small non-profit dedicated to preservation of all local west volusia county history with a special emphasis on local military history. we operate the military collections in the deland memorial hospital & veterans museum in deland florida and i serve as military curator for the city of deland. we coordinate memorial day and veterans day events help cleanup local african american veterans graves; and one major project we are now involved in is the return of a ww2 us army st small harbor tug from sweden where it was sold off after ww2..it is coming home as it was built in deland in 1944! a huge donation helped us this year; normally our income is less than $50,000...but that money has brought st479 tiger to within 15 miles of home after a trip of over 4,900 miles...