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Uncle Remus Museum, Eatonton, Georgia, Putnam County, Georgia, includes a log cabin created from two slave cabins.The museum is dedicated to portraying Southern life as in the Uncle Remus stories.
Location of Leon County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Leon County, Florida. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Leon County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts ...
DeLeon Springs is named for Juan Ponce de León. [5] It was originally called Spring Garden and the name was changed in the late 1800s to attract tourists. [6] The region was developed in 1925 with a hotel/restaurant the DeLeon Spring Inn, later called the Ponce de Leon Springs Hotel, which was expanded into a larger tourist attraction in 1953. [6]
A hotel was built near the spring, and a small steamboat brought visitors by water. In 1925, the fourteen-room Ponce de Leon Hotel was constructed; this was the first resort with all the amenities, attracting more upscale northern clientele. In 1953, after a one million dollar project, the Ponce de Leon Springs attraction opened.
The forced-labor farms of Leon County were numerous and vast. Leon County , Florida , was a hub of cotton production. From the 1820s through 1850s Leon County's fertile red clay soils and long growing season attracted cotton planters from Georgia , Virginia , Maryland , North and South Carolina , among other states as well as countries abroad.
The first known mention in print of the Dominickers is an article in Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State, published by the Federal Writers' Project in 1939. The article "Ponce de Leon" identifies the Dominickers as being mixed-race descendants of the widow of a pre-Civil War plantation owner and one of her black slaves, by whom she had five children.
Gamble lived in the mansion and used it as the headquarters of his extensive sugar plantation. By 1850, he had hired an overseer, 30-year-old David Lanner from Georgia. That year on the US Census, Gamble declared his real estate to be worth $19,000. [6] He enslaved a total of 62 people. [7] From starting with 160 acres, [5] he rapidly acquired ...
DeLeon Springs Colored School: Malloy Elementary School or Malloy Head Start: 330 East Retta Street: DeLeon Springs, Volusia County: August 1, 2003 Orange City Colored School: Marian Coleman Elementary: 200 East Blue Springs Avenue: Orange City, Volusia County: August 1, 2003 Osborne School: Osborne Elementary School: 1718 South Douglas Street