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By Julie Szabo, January 15, 2009
Gamble Mansion and Plantation Marker
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1 ► Florida, Manatee County, Ellenton — F-162 — Gamble Mansion and Plantation —  |
| [Marker Front]: At the close of the Seminole War in 1842, this frontier was opened to settlement. Major Robert Gamble and other sugar planters soon located along the rich Manatee River valley, and by 1845 a dozen plantations were producing . . . — — Map (db m15665) HM | |||
| 2 ► Florida, Manatee County, Ellenton — F-218 — Gamble Sugar Cane Mill — |
| In 1842, as the Second Seminole War drew to a conclusion, Major Robert Gamble, Jr. established a sugar cane plantation along the banks of the Manatee River, as did others including Hector and Joseph Braden, William Craig and William Wyatt. By 1850 . . . — — Map (db m67098) HM | |||