Dunlawton Plantation and Sugar Mill
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The Dunlawton Plantation and Sugar Mill was a plantation that was destroyed by the Seminole
s at the beginning of the Second Seminole War. The ruins are located west of Port Orange, Florida
off Nova Road.
On August 28, 1973, it was added to the U.S.
National Register of Historic Places
under the title of Dunlawton Plantation-Sugar Mill Ruins.
The ruins are now part of the Dunlawton Sugar Mill Gardens. The botanical garden
includes interpretive signs about the enclosed ruins, large concrete
sculptures of dinosaurs and a giant ground sloth, a gazebo
, and plantings of grasses, flowers, bushes and native plants under a canopy of oak
trees.
Seminole
The Seminole are a Native American people originally of Florida, who now reside primarily in that state and Oklahoma. The Seminole nation emerged in a process of ethnogenesis out of groups of Native Americans, most significantly Creeks from what is now Georgia and Alabama, who settled in Florida in...
s at the beginning of the Second Seminole War. The ruins are located west of Port Orange, Florida
Port Orange, Florida
Port Orange is a city in Volusia County, Florida, United States. In 2006, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population as 52,793. The city is part of the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area; the metropolitan area's 2006 population was estimated at...
off Nova Road.
On August 28, 1973, it was added to the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
under the title of Dunlawton Plantation-Sugar Mill Ruins.
The ruins are now part of the Dunlawton Sugar Mill Gardens. The botanical garden
Botanical garden
A botanical garden The terms botanic and botanical, and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is a well-tended area displaying a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names...
includes interpretive signs about the enclosed ruins, large concrete
Concrete
Concrete is a composite construction material, composed of cement and other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, aggregate , water and chemical admixtures.The word concrete comes from the Latin word...
sculptures of dinosaurs and a giant ground sloth, a gazebo
Gazebo
A gazebo is a pavilion structure, sometimes octagonal, that may be built, in parks, gardens, and spacious public areas. Gazebos are freestanding or attached to a garden wall, roofed, and open on all sides; they provide shade, shelter, ornamental features in a landscape, and a place to rest...
, and plantings of grasses, flowers, bushes and native plants under a canopy of oak
Oak
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus , of which about 600 species exist. "Oak" may also appear in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus...
trees.
External links
- Dunlawton Sugar Mill Ruins - official site
- Volusia County listings at National Register of Historic Places
- Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
- Dunlawton Plantation Sugar Mill Ruins at The National Park Service - Links to the Past
- Volusia County at The Florida Seminole War 1792-1859
- Ruins of sugar mill, Dunlawton plantation
- FLORIDA 32) Dunlawton Plantation Sugar Mill Ruins, National Register of Historic Places
- Battle of Dunlawton Plantation - Port Orange, FL