Volusia, on the east bank of the Saint Johns River, is the birthplace of Volusia County and its oldest settlement. United States courts confirmed Horatio Dexter's 1815 Spanish title and Joseph Rattenbury's 1817 title to the 17,000-acre Volusia tract, which extended from the Macayan Indian Mounds of 1558 north to Lake George. Volusia Township was surveyed in 1821, divided into government lots in 1834, and confirmed on the United States Cadastral Survey Map. This site stood at the center of many historic places, including to the southwest the fort and mission San Salvador de Macaya of 1667, to the south Spalding's Upper Store of 1763, which became the Panton, Leslie Indian Trading House in 1776, and in the surrounding area during the Creek-Seminole Indian War period of 1835 to 1858 Forts Volusia, Call, Barnwell, and Columbia. Volusia Military Cemetery adjoined this site, and the Methodist Episcopal Church was built in 1845 within Fort Call's enclosure.