- Dunlawton Plantation and Sugar Mill
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Dunlawton Plantation-Sugar Mill Ruins
Location: Port Orange, Florida Coordinates: 29°8′27″N 81°0′22″W / 29.14083°N 81.00611°WCoordinates: 29°8′27″N 81°0′22″W / 29.14083°N 81.00611°W Governing body: Local government NRHP Reference#: 73000606 Added to NRHP: August 28, 1973 The Dunlawton Plantation and Sugar Mill was a plantation that was destroyed by the Seminoles at the beginning of the Second Seminole War. The ruins are located west of Port Orange, Florida off Nova Road.
On August 28, 1973, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places under the title of Dunlawton Plantation-Sugar Mill Ruins.
The ruins are now part of the Dunlawton Sugar Mill Gardens. The botanical garden includes interpretive signs about the enclosed ruins, large concrete sculptures of dinosaurs and a giant ground sloth, a gazebo, and plantings of grasses, flowers, bushes and native plants under a canopy of oak trees.
External links
- Dunlawton Sugar Mill Ruins - official site
- Volusia County listings at National Register of Historic Places
- Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
- Dunlawton Plantation Sugar Mill Ruins at The National Park Service - Links to the Past
- Volusia County at The Florida Seminole War 1792-1859
- Ruins of sugar mill, Dunlawton plantation
- FLORIDA 32) Dunlawton Plantation Sugar Mill Ruins, National Register of Historic Places
- Battle of Dunlawton Plantation - Port Orange, FL
Categories:- Archaeological sites in Florida
- National Register of Historic Places in Volusia County, Florida
- Ruins in the United States
- Seminole Wars
- Plantations in Florida
- Botanical gardens in Florida
- Parks in Volusia County, Florida
- Florida Registered Historic Places building and structure stubs
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