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Photographer: Jay Kravetz
Taken: June 6, 2017
Caption: An additional Garcia-Dummett House Marker
Additional Description: Anna Maria Dummett was born in Barbados, the Bahamas in 1819 to English parents. She came to Florida with them about 1830 where they occupied a sugar plantation near present day Titusville. As the Seminole Wars accelerated, the family moved to St. Augustine. In 1845, she inherited the Garcia-Dummett House (now the St. Francis Inn) and operated it as a boarding house. During the Civil War, she cared for the children of her brother-in-law General Hardee, volunteered as a nurse and may have been a Confederate spy. In 1866 she returned to St. Augustine and helped found the Ladies Memorial Association, serving as president until her death in 1899. She helped establish a Confederate memorial on the Plaza. When the United Daughters of the Confederacy formed a chapter in St. Augustine, the women named it after Anna Dummett. Her Great Floridian plaque is located at the Garcia-Dummett House/St. Francis Inn, 279 St. George Street, St. Augustine.
Submitted: September 10, 2017, by Jay Kravetz of West Palm Beach, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p398159
File Size: 1.497 Megabytes

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