- February 18, 2026
The Cedar Point property, located south of the River to Sea Preserve, has several imperiled species. It is owned by the DuPont family. Courtesy of Flagler County
The Cedar Point property, located south of the River to Sea Preserve and on east side of the Intracoastal Waterway, has several imperiled species. It is owned by the DuPont family. Courtesy of Flagler County
The Cedar Point property, located south of the River to Sea Preserve, has several imperiled species. It is owned by the DuPont family, and has the DuPont family cemetery on site. Courtesy of Flagler County
The Cedar Point property, located south of the River to Sea Preserve, has several imperiled species. It is owned by the DuPont family. Courtesy of Flagler County
Flagler County has added a 21-acre property in The Hammock to its Environmentally Sensitive Land acquisition list.
The property, called Cedar Point, is located 0.33 miles south of the River to Sea Preserve and contains “one of the last unprotected tracts of high-quality maritime hammock,” according to Flagler County documents. The Flagler County Commission unanimously approved the addition of Cedar Point to the ESL’s A List of priority properties at its Feb. 9 meeting.
Cedar Point is located on the eastern margin of the Intracoastal Waterway and is owned by the DuPont family. According to Flagler Commission meeting materials, the property would be a conservation easement to ensure the preservation of the site’s natural resources.
Six imperiled species can be found on the land, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service. Those species include the tricolored bat, West Indian manatee, eastern black rail, Florida scrub-jay, piping plover and eastern indigo snake. Almost 15 acres of maritime hammock
A small cottage is located on the property, which the family may improve or replace in the future, the documents said. The property also includes the DuPont family cemetery site.
The Flagler property appraiser listed the site’s 2025 just market value as $1.6 million. The ESL has a budget of over $10 million.
Also added to the priority ESL A List is the initiative to add 153 acres of Bulow Creek floodplain to the Florida Forever boundary.
Land Management Director Erick Revuelta said in the meeting the LAC decided to add the property to the list in case Florida Forever is either unwilling to amend its boundary or if it is unable to afford helping Flagler purchase the property from the Veranda Bay and Summertown developers.
“That will give us some flexibility as to potentially funding that acquisition through the ESL,” he said.
To accommodate adding Cedar Point and Bulow Creek floodplains to the A List, the LAC dropped a property known as the Double C Ranch to the B List. This property is moving forward with the Rural Family Lands conservation easement and no longer needs ESL funding, he said.
Revuelta said the LAC is also removing an 80-acre property known as the Strickland property from the list, located near Hunter’s Ridge in Bunnell. The county and the property owner could not come to an agreement, he said.
According to information from the Land Acquisition Committee’s January meeting agenda, the county is still working on purchasing land near Marineland. The purchase is a joint effort between the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Florida Forever Program, the North Florida Land Trust and the University of Florida’s Whitney Lab.
FDEP is working on selecting an appraiser for the Marineland properties, according to the LAC meeting document, and Flagler County has agreed to use the same appraiser for consistency.
The property owner has obtained their own property appraisal valuing the property at $28 million. Flagler County’s portion of the acquisition, around 10 acres of land, would be valued approximately at $8 million based on that appraisal.
