Sylvania Plantation
N 30° 47.526 W 085° 08.416
16R E 677940 N 3408040
Home of Florida's ill-fated Civil War governor
Waymark Code: WMDECJ
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 01/02/2012
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Near this site stood "Sylvania", the plantation home of John Milton, Florida's Civil War governor, who settled in Jackson County in 1845. Milton's holdings consisted of 2,600 acres, a manor house, a school and family chapel, barns, blacksmith shop, and quarters for 50 slaves. Chief crops were cotton and corn. Here Gov. Milton, exhausted by his labors for the Confederate cause, took his life at the end of the war.
Marker Number: F-35
Date: 1961
County: Jackson
Marker Type: Roadside
Sponsored or placed by: Florida Board of Parks and Historic Memorials
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