New Smyrna Beach is a city in Volusia County, Florida, United States, located upon the central east coast of the state, with the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Its population is 30,142 in 2020 by the United States Census Bureau.
The downtown section of the city is located on the west side of the Indian River and the Indian River Lagoon system. The Coronado Beach Bridge crosses the Intracoastal Waterway just south of Ponce de Leon Inlet, connecting the mainland taking into account the beach on the coastal barrier island.

The surrounding area offers many opportunities for outside recreation; these count fishing, sailing, motorboating, golfing, and hiking. Visitors participate in water sports of whatever kinds, including swimming, scuba diving, kitesurfing, and surfing. In July 2009, New Smyrna Beach was ranked number nine upon the list of “best surf towns” in Surfer. It was approved as “one of the world’s top 20 surf towns” by National Geographic in 2012. It has as a consequence been dubbed “The Shark Bite Capital of the World.”

The area was first established by Europeans in 1768, when Scottish physician Dr. Andrew Turnbull, a buddy of James Grant, the commissioner of British East Florida, established the colony of New Smyrna. Dr. Turnbull had married Gracia Dura Bin (some sources have the funds for her publish as Maria Gracia Rubini), the daughter of a Greek London merchant from the Ottoman city of Smyrna (modern-day İzmir in Turkey) and named the settlement in rave review of his wife’s birthplace, and the homeland of some of those in his complex labor force who were Greek from the Mani peninsula. No one had since attempted to settle correspondingly many people at one mature in a town in North America.

Turnbull recruited approximately 1,300 settlers, intending for them to build up hemp, sugarcane, and indigo, as capably as to manufacture rum, at his plantation on the northeastern Atlantic coast of Florida. The majority of the colonists came from Menorca (historically called “Minorca” in English), one of the Mediterranean Balearic Islands of Spain, and were of Catalan culture and language. Around 500 or fittingly came from the Mani peninsula of Greece.