Kingsley Plantation-Timucuan Preserve - Jacksonville, Florida
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gparkes
N 30° 26.416 W 081° 26.290
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During Florida’s plantation period (1763-1865), Fort George Island was owned by many planters. The site name comes from one of those owners, Zephaniah Kingsley. The Kingsleys lived here from 1814 to 1837.
Waymark Code: WMAG8C
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 01/11/2011
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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many people came to Florida. Some, like Zephaniah Kingsley, sought to make their fortunes by obtaining land and establishing plantations. Others were forced to come to Florida to work on those plantations, their labor providing wealth to the people who owned them. Some of the enslaved would later become free landowners, struggling to keep their footing in a dangerous time of shifting alliances and politics. All of these people played a part in the history of Kingsley Plantation.
(Quoted from National Park Service website.)