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  2. National Register of Historic Places listings in Leon County ...

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    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 ...

  3. List of plantations in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.

  4. List of slave cabins and quarters - Wikipedia

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    Point of Pines Plantation Slave Cabin, Edisto Island, SC, NRHP-listed Slave Houses, Gregg Plantation , Mars Bluff, South Carolina, NRHP-listed Annandale Plantation (Georgetown County, South Carolina)

  5. DeLeon Springs, Florida - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Strawn Historic Citrus Packing House District - Wikipedia

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    The Strawn Historic Citrus Packing House District (also known as the Bob White Historic Citrus Packing House District) is a U.S. historic district (designated as such on September 13, 1993) located at 5707 Lake Winona Road in DeLeon Springs, Florida in Volusia County. It contains 12 historic buildings and 3 structures.

  7. Plantation house - Wikipedia

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    A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and expensive architectural works today, though most were more utilitarian, working farmhouses.

  8. Plantations of Leon County, Florida - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Dominickers - Wikipedia

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    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.