Kingsley Plantation Kitchen Well - Jacksonville, FL
N 30° 26.377 W 081° 26.268
17R E 457962 N 3367581
This old kitchen well is located at the Kingsley Plantation in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMQN3C
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 03/06/2016
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The old kitchen well is one of two wells that have survived since Zephaniah Kingsley's ownership. The other is called the low stone well and was used to provide water to both humans and horses. (
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The following information is from an audio tour transcript about the kitchen:
"Stop 6: Kitchen
Cooking for the plantation owner and this family was done in a separate building because of heat, noise, smells, and the danger of a fire.
The kitchen was a meeting point between African and European cultures. Slave cooks prepared foods traditionally, altering recipes passed down from African ancestors and mixing in local ingredients and new recipes from the owner's family.
After slave cooks prepared meals they carried them to the owner's house to be served. Water was brought from the well or the cistern near this building. The latticed walkway was added in the 1870s."