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Port Orange in Volusia County, Florida — The American South (South Atlantic)
 

Historic Sugar Cane Machinery

 
 
Historic Sugar Cane Machinery Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by AGS Media, August 13, 2010
1. Historic Sugar Cane Machinery Marker
Inscription. Animal powered rollers, used to crush sugar cane, came from the Samuel Williams Plantation. This Plantation was destroyed by the Indians and never rebuilt.
 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: AgricultureAnimalsIndustry & CommerceWars, US Indian.
 
Location. 29° 8.489′ N, 81° 0.446′ W. Marker is in Port Orange, Florida, in Volusia County. It can be reached from Old Sugar Mill Road east of Herbert Street, on the left when traveling east. The marker is on the grounds of the Dunlawton Sugar Mill Botanical Gardens. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 950 Old Sugar Mill Road, Port Orange FL 32129, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Florida’s First Coast. It is also in the American South. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Florida Hammock Trail (within shouting distance of this marker); Bongoland (within shouting distance of this marker); Destruction of Dunlawton Plantation (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Emathla (King Philip) (about 500 feet away); Battle of Dunlawton Plantation (about 500 feet away); Spanish Mills and Bongoland (about 500 feet away); Dunlawton's Building Blocks (about 500 feet away); The Dunlawton Sugar Factory (about 500 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Port Orange.
 
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Another marker is no longer nearby.
Confederate Oak (was about 400 feet away but has been permanently removed).
 
Historic Sugar Cane Machinery Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by AGS Media, August 13, 2010
2. Historic Sugar Cane Machinery Marker
Historic Sugar Cane Machinery image. Click for full size.
Photographed by AGS Media, August 13, 2010
3. Historic Sugar Cane Machinery
Historic Sugar Cane Machinery image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Glenn Sheffield, August 13, 2010
4. Historic Sugar Cane Machinery
At Dunlawton Sugar Mill Botanical Gardens
Related Sugar Cane Machinery image. Click for full size.
Photographed by AGS Media, July 31, 2011
5. Related Sugar Cane Machinery
Found elsewhere in the gardens
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on August 26, 2011, by Glenn Sheffield of Tampa, Florida. This page has been viewed 869 times since then and 22 times this year. Photos:   1. submitted on August 26, 2011, by Glenn Sheffield of Tampa, Florida.   2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on August 27, 2011, by Glenn Sheffield of Tampa, Florida. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
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