Dunlawton Plantation-Sugar Mill Ruins

W of Port Orange off Nova Rd., Port Orange, Florida. County/parish: Volusia.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 28, 1973. NRIS 73000606.

1 contributing site.

Also known as:

  • Sugar Mill Gardens

From Wikipedia:

Dunlawton Plantation and Sugar Mill

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.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77844149

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