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  Location within Volusia County | |
| Location | 234 East Michigan Avenue DeLand, Florida |
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| Coordinates | 29°01′59″N81°18′00″W / 29.03313°N 81.29992°W |
| Type | Science museum [1] |
| Website | The Gillespie Museum |
The Gillespie Museum is located in DeLand, Florida, on the Stetson University campus. It houses one of the largest gem and mineral collections in the southeast. [2]
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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.
DeLand is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Volusia County. The city sits approximately 34 miles (55 km) north of the central business district of Orlando, and approximately 23 miles (37 km) west of the central business district of Daytona Beach. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 27,031. It is a part of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metropolitan area, which was home to 590,289 people as of the 2010 census.
Stetson University is a private university with four colleges and schools located across the I-4 corridor in Central Florida with the primary undergraduate campus in DeLand.
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