Sugar-mill Ruins Travel Park
The sugar mill was built in the early years of the 19th century during Indian uprisings and saw its demise during the Seminole Wars when Native American warriors raged against intrusive white settlements. citysearch.com
Old St. Rita Colored Mission Church
The old St. Rita's Catholic Church Mission Building is one of the oldest surviving church buildings in the city. It was built in 1899 as the Sacred Heart Catholic Church of New Smyrna Beach, moved to this site in 1956 to serve ... hmdb.org
Jesse Linzy
Born in Savannah on August 7, 1872, Jesse Linzy came to Mosquito (now Ponce) Inlet possibly in the late 1890s. A skilled concrete worker, he built the sidewalk from the tower down to the river, replacing an old wooden boardwalk... hmdb.org
Sugar Making
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 operatio... hmdb.org
The Freemanville Settlement
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 & ... hmdb.org
Battle Of Dunlawton Plantation
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 e... hmdb.org
Florida Hammock Trail
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, ... hmdb.org
The Most Dangerous Chieftain
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.... hmdb.org
Halifax Historical Museum
The Halifax Historical Museum houses memorabilia from the early plantation period to the present. There is a fine research library with rare books, letters, manuscripts, and pamphlets relating to Halifax area history. The... museumland.net
Georgetown And Goldsboro
African Americans were first brought to the Sanford area by slave-holding families settling in the Fort Mellon area during the 1840s. Later in the nineteenth century, Henry Sanford welcomed black residents to his city when it w... hmdb.org
Sanford's First Residents
Over 1,000 years ago, the Timucua (tee-MOO-quo) people established villages in this area. They fished, hunted, and grew crops such as maize, squash, and beans. By the 1700s, the Timucuans began to disappear as they succumbed to... hmdb.org
Site Of Fort Mellon
Formerly Camp Fanning where on February 8, 1837 during one of the fiercest battles of the Seminole Wars Capt. Mellon Commandant was killed in an attack of 400 braves led by King Philip and Coacoochee hmdb.org
Georgetown
The community of Georgetown, a suburb east of Sanford Avenue, and north of Celery Avenue was established circa 1870. It was comprised of lots sold by Henry Sanford to the early black pioneers who had made their way from Virgini... hmdb.org
St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint James African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church has been located on Cypress Avenue since 1880 on land purchased from General Henry S. Sanford. The current structure was designed by Prince W. Spears and built in 1910-191... hmdb.org