Earl Brown Park is known for its Art Festival, Easter Egg Hunts, Block Parties, and Events. But it is also one of the largest parks in central Deland. The park contained a small lake which a little peninsula great for fishing or spending the day picnicking. There are shelters, fitness trails, exercise beams and wooden benches. There is a playground, skate park for them skateboarders and bike daredevils, the David E. Disney Tennis Courts and even the Wayne G. Sanborn Activities Center which has outside lawn bowling etc.

I really adore this park the willow trees are so beautiful and the water is so clear on some days. Perhaps though I became interested in investigating it when 2 women stood me up at the park and I sat alone on a bench thinking wait here I feel watched by a unknown energy and presence. So perhaps my curiosity got the best of me but the park turns out to have some rather friendly unseen entities. When I first moved here I would pass the park and was like wow is the only park in Florida ha ha so it did catch my interest right away. But it also is a park full of wild life such as ducks, birds, and sometimes I wonder if there are gators in that lake. 

But before I realized they do ghost tours here after studying some history it is rumored the lake is haunted. Perhaps because at one time people drowned here or maybe its the fact that this at one time was a place where the Seminoles once walked. There is also a story of a couple deaths which took place in the park one of them I was told happened to be a skating accident. The other one is about a boy who was viciously murdered by a group of kids and they moved him to a nearby tree.

The park was dedicated in 1929 in the name of a man named Earl Brown. He was at one time a former Mayor of Deland, Executive Secretary of the Board Of Trade meaning Chamber Of Commerce and one of the founders of the Volusia Country Fair in 1925. Perhaps some have known him through his company called Exhibit Builders. What they would do is building exhibits at events like the Florida exposition, the 1933 Worlds Fair in Chicago, and the 1939 Worlds Fair in NY as well as others. His main goal was to promote Florida in every way possible at various fairs and events. Other then that I do not have much other history on him or the park. I do know we will return here in the future to bring you a second story and do more research on this beautiful place as long as the boys in blue do not bother us as like our first investigation.

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