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Plantation is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is a part of the South Florida metropolitan area. The city's name comes from the previous part-owner of the land, the Everglades Plantation Company, and their unsuccessful attempts to establish a rice plantation in the area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 91,750.
The Seward Plantation is a historic Southern plantation-turned-ranch in Independence, Texas. Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the 20th century. The complex included everything from the main residence down to the pens for livestock. Until the abolition of slavery, such ...
93000774, 93000775, 93000777, Kilauea Plantation. 1983. Kīlauea. Kauaʻi. Sugar cane plantation that operated from 1880 to 1971; 5 historic buildings NRHP-listed: Manager's House, Head Luna's House, Head Bookkeeper's House, Kilauea School, Kong Lung Store. 66000296. Old Sugar Mill of Koloa. December 29, 1962.
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.
Plantation house on Verdura plantation in Leon County, Florida, built in 1832, burned in 1885. Drawing produced in about 1870. Drawing produced in about 1870. American settlers began to establish cotton plantations in northern Florida , which required numerous laborers, which they supplied by buying slaves in the domestic market.
70000189 [1] Added to NRHP. August 12, 1970. The Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park, also known as the Gamble Mansion or Gamble Plantation, is a Florida State Park, located in Ellenton, Florida, on 37th Avenue East and US 301. It is home to the Florida Division United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).
The National Historic Landmarks in Florida are representations of a broad sweep of history from Pre-Columbian times, through the Second Seminole War and Civil War, and the Space Age. There are 47 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Florida, [1] which are located in twenty-two of the state's sixty-seven counties.
The history of Florida can be traced to when the first Paleo-Indians began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago. [1] They left behind artifacts and archeological evidence. Florida's written history begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 made the first textual records.