Dunlawton Plantation-Sugar Mill Ruins
National Register of Historic Places

Dunlawton Plantation-Sugar Mill Ruins

Port Orange, Volusia County, Florida
Listed
August 27, 1973
Type
Site
Period
Modern
Ref No.
73000606

About this property

The Dunlawton Plantation and Sugar Mill, a 19th-century cane sugar plantation in north-central Florida, was destroyed by the Seminoles at the beginning of the Second Seminole War. The ruins are located at 950 Old Sugar Mill Road, Port Orange, Florida. On August 28, 1973, the site was added to the United States 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 gardens include 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.

Location

Port Orange, Volusia County, Florida
29.14161, -81.00687

Categories

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Sources

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Nearby Historic Sites

Port Orange Florida East Coast Railway Freight Depot
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0.9 mi
Dunlawton Avenue Historic District
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1 mi
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1.2 mi
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3.9 mi
South Ridgewood Elementary School
Civil War
3.9 mi

Nearby Battles

Battle of Simmons Bluff (FL)
1863Civil War
3.8 mi

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When was Dunlawton Plantation-Sugar Mill Ruins listed on the National Register?

Dunlawton Plantation-Sugar Mill Ruins was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 27, 1973.

What type of historic resource is Dunlawton Plantation-Sugar Mill Ruins?

Dunlawton Plantation-Sugar Mill Ruins is classified as a site in the National Register of Historic Places.

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