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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVBX_from-the-boardwalk_Port-Orange-FL.html
Welcome to Dunlawton's boardwalk - a modern structure offering views of the former sugar factory while reducing foot traffic inside. (More on the nineteenth-century floorplan can be found in an interpretive panel near the ruins' south side.) Today…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVBV_sugar-making_Port-Orange-FL.html
In the early nineteenth century, many of this region's large agricultural ventures focused on sugar - coarse, brown, and valuable. To get the most from their sugar cane, some planters had their own crushing and cooking operations. At plantations l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVBT_dunlawtons-building-blocks_Port-Orange-FL.html
The ruins here include chimneys and other structures made of coquina, Spanish for "tiny shell." Quarried locally (and elsewhere in the Southeast), this native stone contains mollusk shell fragments and quartz sand, bound together by calcium carbon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVBR_the-dunlawton-sugar-factory_Port-Orange-FL.html
These are the ruins of people's dreams, left by successive landowners, free workers, and slaves. Hoping to make sugar in the nineteenth century, they faced isolation, hurricanes, and dispossessed Seminoles. Some lost money in their ventures, and o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUKM_the-freemanville-settlement_Port-Orange-FL.html
Founded soon after the U.S. Civil War, the settlement that would become "Freemanville" was established by Dr. John Milton Hawks, an abolitionist and Union Army surgeon, along with other Union Army officers and the Florida Land & Lumber Company. In…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNBQ_bongoland_Port-Orange-FL.html
Several attempts were made to operate Dunlawton Plantation as a tourist attraction in the the 1950's Dr. Perry Sperber leased the premises from J. Saxon Lloyd for a park to display prehistoric monsters and had a number of replicas, molded in concr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN66_confederate-oak_Port-Orange-FL.html
This great tree is called the Confederate Oak because according to legend, Confederate Soldiers frequently camped under it.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMY9_battle-of-dunlawton-plantation_Port-Orange-FL.html
During the 2nd Seminole War, 1836, the Mosquito Roarers, a company of Florida militia under Major Benjamin Putnam, engaged a large band of Seminoles pillaging Dunlawton, a sugar plantation on the Halifax River. Heavy fighting ensued, but the milit…