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Ron Howell re-enacts John Andrew Bostrom during the Ormond Beach Historical Society's Hillside Cemetery tour on March 3. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Joyce Benedict opens Ormond Beach Historical Society's Hillside Cemetery tour on March 3. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Tom Massfeller and Julie Sterns re-enact John Anderson Price and Mary Belle Price during the Ormond Beach Historical Society's Hillside Cemetery tour on March 3. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
People listen intently during the Ormond Beach Historical Society's Hillside Cemetery tour on March 3. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Hedland Blankeship and Michele Kasler re-enact Daniel and Jane Wright Wilson during the Ormond Beach Historical Society's Hillside Cemetery tour on March 3. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Diane Simmons became Alma W. Chapman during the Ormond Beach Historical Society's Hillside Cemetery tour on March 3. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Douglas Brown holds up a rifle topped with a bayonet for his re-enactment of Confederate soldier Solomon Hamilton during the Ormond Beach Historical Society's Hillside Cemetery tour on March 3. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Jerry Waszak holds up a hardtack biscuit during his re-enactment of Union soldier Edward Ellsworth at the Ormond Beach Historical Society's Hillside Cemetery tour on March 3. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Ron Howell explains what John Andrew Bostrom's role in founding Ormond Beach was during the Ormond Beach Historical Society's Hillside Cemetery tour on March 3. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Alice Howell re-enacts Edith P. Foulke during the Ormond Beach Historical Society's Hillside Cemetery tour on March 3. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
The Ormond Beach Historical Society held their second-annual Hillside Cemetery tour on Saturday, March 3, complete with re-enactors of some of the city's earliest settlers.
Being one of the oldest cemeteries in Volusia County, OBHS board member Joyce Benedict said Hillside is the final resting place for the "movers and shakers" of Ormond Beach. Some of the people buried there include John Anderson Price, who built the Ormond Hotel, and John Andrew Bostrom, who is credited with being the city's first permanent settler.
Benedict said they chose Hillside Cemetery for it's location on the beachside, which back then, was full of sand dunes and palm trees.
"They would be buried by the ocean so that they could hear the waves," Benedict said.
