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70000179 [1] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins. Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins Historic State Park is a Florida State Park located in Homosassa, off U.S. 19. It contains the ruins of a forced-labor farm owned by David Levy Yulee. [2] Yulee was an enslaver and a delegate of the Florida Territorial Legislative Council.
The Gamble sugar mill, one of the antebellum era's largest, was destroyed by Union raiders in 1864. The brick ruins are located one-half mile to the north on State Road 683. The State of Florida acquired the mill property in 2002; it has cleared overgrown vegetation at the site to make the mill ruins visible, while protecting them with a fence. [8]
The town of Fernandina Beach, Florida has a statue of Yulee. [33] In 2000, the Florida Department of State designated Levy Yulee as a Great Floridian in the Great Floridians 2000 Program. Award plaques in his honor were installed at both the Fernandina Chamber of Commerce and the Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins State Historic Site. [22]
The New Smyrna Sugar Mill Ruins (also known as the Cruger and DePeyster Sugar Mill) is a historic site in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, at 600 Old Mission Road, one mile west of the Intracoastal Waterway. On August 12, 1970, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
FIPS code. 12-68950 [2] GNIS feature ID. 1867212 [3] Sugarmill Woods is an unincorporated, census-designated place (CDP) in southwestern Citrus County, Florida. The population was 11,204 at the 2020 census, up from 8,287 at the 2010 census. [4] It is part of the Homosassa Springs, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Among the crops raised were sugar cane, cotton, and citrus. The Yulee Groves were one of the first in Florida to grow sweet oranges budded from sour orange stock. The mill, which was steam-driven, operated from 1851 to 1864 and produced sugar, syrup, and molasses, the last of which was part of the rum-making process.
61-acre State Park and National Historic Landmark that contains Native American burial mounds, temple/platform mounds, a plaza and a midden. 2. Crystal River Old City Hall. Crystal River Old City Hall. More images. May 29, 1998. ( #98000588) 532 North Citrus Avenue. 28°53′55″N 82°35′36″W.