William Pinkston Craig, planter and native of Maryland, came to the Manatee River from Leon County, Florida in the early 1840s. Clearing an original 160 acres, he planted sugar cane and corn and built a sugar and grist mill. Its 45 ft. chimney of . . . — — Map (db m92863) HM
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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
Based on the limited historical records concerning life on the Gamble plantation, this is a conceptual rendering of the first type of cabin erected to house the enslaved people in the late 1840's. They were constructed of Sabal Palm logs which grew . . . — — Map (db m240762) HM
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
Secretary of State Benjamin of the Confederate Cabinet lived in this house between the capture of Richmond, VA, by the Union Army and his escape to England.
This building and the site were purchased by Friends of the Confederacy and . . . — — Map (db m218390) HM WM
