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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24B2_port-orange-veterans-park-a-war-memorial_Port-Orange-FL.html
Dedicated to those who have served
in the Armed Forces of the
United States of America
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVC8_florida-hammock-trail_Port-Orange-FL.html
This trail leads through hammock land. The word hammock was an Indian term. This is the way the land looked when it was the free domain of the Indians, the home of wildlife and birds.
The land had to be cleared to plant crops, build shelters an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVC7_destruction-of-dunlawton-plantation_Port-Orange-FL.html
In January 1836, during the second Indian War, the Indians burned Dunlawton Plantation. Only the brick walls, the chimneys and the heavy iron machinery were left. The Plantation was not rebuilt until the 1840's.
The war cost the United States …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVC6_historic-sugar-cane-machinery_Port-Orange-FL.html
Animal powered rollers, used to crush sugar cane, came from the Samuel Williams Plantation. This Plantation was destroyed by the Indians and never rebuilt.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVC5_spanish-mills-and-bongoland_Port-Orange-FL.html
After the 1850s, Dunlawton's days as a serious sugar venture were through. John Marshall moved away, tried to rid himself of the Florida plantation, and finally snared a buyer in 1871. His successors included Charles Dougherty (a noted lawyer-poli…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVC4_living-on-the-edge_Port-Orange-FL.html
One reality of this sugar plantation was its isolation. When owner John Marshall asked for help against the Seminoles, an army commander in St. Augustine offered muskets and a lecture: "I need scarcely add," he warned, "that the best reliance of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVC3_telling-dunlawtons-stories_Port-Orange-FL.html
How do we know what we know about Dunlawton? The information sources range from period documents to objects in the ground. Questions remain, but researchers have made a start at uncovering the plantation's key stories.
Among the written sources…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVC1_the-most-dangerous-chieftain_Port-Orange-FL.html
When Sarah Anderson and her sons owned Dunlawton, Mosquito County settlers formed a militia unit called the Mosquito Roarers. Even with its fine name, this group reportedly lacked anyone who had ever "seen a gun fired in anger." By the mid-1830's,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVBZ_working_Port-Orange-FL.html
The Dunlawton Plantation was no leisure spot. As a frontier agricultural and processing site, it demanded hard, physical, un-glamorous work. Without the labor of African-American slaves and hired free workers, this nineteenth-century venture would…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVBY_the-roof_Port-Orange-FL.html
Dunlawton's new metal roof is meant to protect stonework and machinery. But it also makes an important point. Though not an exact replica of the wooden roof that protected it, this shelter reminds us that a large, enclosed factory once stood here.…