Local Historical Resources

• Edgewater Museum

  • Address: 1108 S. Ridgewood Avenue in the Parks & Recreation Department Office.

  • The museum has historical items that have been donated to the city.

• Edgewater Public Library

  • Address: 103 W Indian River Blvd.; Edgewater , FL 32132

  • Phone: (386) 424-2916

  • Hours:  Mon & Wed: 9 am - 6 pm;   Tue & Thu: 9 am - 7 pm;   Fri & Sat: 9 am - 5 pm; Sun: closed

  • Small section of books on local history and some local family history.

• Edgewater Union Church

  • Address: 500 S Ridgewood Ave, Edgewater, FL 32132

  • Every Sunday there is coffee hour from 9:45-10:45 followed by a service

  • Beverly Palmer is the Church Historian, and she has a wealth of information regarding our town’s history. Several families who attend this church have been in Edgewater over 100 years.​

• Oak Hill Public Library

  • Address:  125 E Halifax Ave.; Oak Hill , FL 32759

  • Phone: (386) 345-5510

  • Hours: Mon - Fri: 9 am - 1 pm, 2 pm - 5 pm; Sat - Sun: closed

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• Oak Hill Museum

  • Address: 126 East Halifax, Oak Hill

  • Hours: Weds, 4:30-6:30 & Sats 9:30-12:30

  • Tanya Petracca Phone: (386) 547-5909 Email: Oakhill.mus.pb@gmail.com

  • Facebook: Oak Hill Museum (Oak Hill Historical Society)

• New Smyrna Beach Regional Library

  • Address: 1001 S Dixie Fwy, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168

  • Phone: (386) 424-2910

  • Hours: Mon - Thu: 9 am - 7 pm;   Fri - Sat: 9 am - 5 pm;   Sun: 12 - 5 pm

  • The library has a small section of books on local history and some local family history.

  • Monday afternoons Genealogical Society of Southeast Volusia County meet to provide support to library patrons.

• New Smyrna Museum – (Only) New Smyrna history exhibits.

  • Address: First Floor; 120 Sams Avenue NSB, FL 32168

  • Hours: Tue - Sat: 10am - 4pm

  • Website: https://nsbhistory.org/

  • YouTube: New Smyrna Museum of History YouTube

  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newsmyrnamuseumofhistory

  • Executive Director: Greg Holbrook; PH: 386-478-0052 Email: NSMofHistory@gmail.com

• Southeast Volusia Historical Society, Inc./The Sheldon Library

  • Address: Second Floor; 120 Sams Avenue NSB, FL 32168

  • Website: https://nsbhistory.org/sheldon-library-at-the-new-smyrna-museum/

  • To request an appointment, please fill out the Online Request Form and a Museum Representative will contact you.

  • The Sheldon Library is up a set of roped off stairs in the back of New Smyrna Museum.

  • “The Sheldon Library is a non-circulating reference library containing a variety of books, photographs, maps, and ephemera related to Southeast Volusia County’s past.”