Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 15983
Land area (2000): 7.860752 sq. miles (20.359254 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.172146 sq. miles (0.445856 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.032898 sq. miles (20.805110 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71569
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 25.670601 N, 80.436006 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
The Hammocks
Wikipedia
The Hammocks is a historic site in Ormond Beach, Florida, United States. It is located at 311 John Anderson Highway. On September 5, 1989, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Usage examples of "the hammocks".
Several of the hammocks had been moved away, and all the slaves were sitting on the floor.
While the men dropped the shot into the hammocks and joked as they hurried to make up the bags, some of them recognizing their own hammocks by the numbers painted on them and groaning at the thought of scrubbing out the blacking from the shot that was already making the flax look like zebra skin, Ramage was conscious out of the corner of his eye that Southwick seemed to be doing a jig just forward of the binnacle.
Then the men would troop up on deck to stow the hammocks in the racks of netting along the top of the bulwarks.
She was firing fast: the Marines and soldiers packed tight on the quarterdeck and forecastle were blazing away over the hammocks with steady pertinacity: stray ropes and blocks fell on to the splinternetting overhead: smoke hung thick between the ships, continually renewed as it blew away, and through the smoke the Bellone's guns flashed orange--flashes from the Victor too, on the Nereide's starboard quarter.
Slowly and awkwardly it pitched forward, dragging the hammocks behind it as it neared the very edge of the peak.
Jack followed him, jumping perilously on to the muzzle of a run-out carronade and so over what was left of the hammocks on to the American quarterdeck.
They whirled round in a flurry of petticoats, when one of the women in the hammocks screamed a warning to them.
Facing the four, he edged along the wall of the LB, pushing aside the hammocks until he was on the opposite side of the cage from the brachs.
LB, pushing aside the hammocks until he was on the opposite side of the cage from the brachs.
On to the lower deck, where the hammocks swung by night, but empty now, with a candle in each berth and a variety of ornaments and pictures laid out pretty on the seamen's chests.