View of Bulow Creek at Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park - Bunnell, Florida

Title

• View of Bulow Creek at Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park - Bunnell, Florida

Image Number

• FPS00170

Year

• 1954

Series Title

• General: Florida Park Service Collection.
• Specific: Florida Park Service Collection Series 236, Box 1, envelope 123

General Note

• Bulow Plantation and Mill, built of coquina rock, was the largest in East Florida. In 1821, Major Charles Wilhelm Bulow acquired 4,675 acres on a tidal creek (later Bulow Creek) and using slave labor, cleared 2,200 acres and planted sugar cane, cotton, rice and indigo. He died in 1823, and seventeen year old son, John Joachim Bulow took over. Naturalist John James Audubon was a guest at the plantation during the 1831 Christmas season. 1831. The plantation and its mill was destroyed in 1836 during the Second Seminole War. Bulow left for Paris that year, where he died. The Florida Park Service acquired the ruins in 1945. it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

Photographer/Personal Author

• Schaeffer, Charles H., d. 1959

Additional Corporate Creator

• Florida. - Board of Parks and Historic Memorials.

Physical Description

• 1 photoprint - b&w - 8 x 10 in.

Subject Term

• Parks--Florida--Flagler County--Bunnell
• Recreation areas--Florida--Flagler County--Bunnell
• Historic sites--Florida--Flagler County--Bunnell
• State parks and reserves--Florida--Flagler County--Bunnell
• Rivers--Florida--Flagler County--Bunnell

Geographic Term

• Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park (Fla)
• Bulow Plantation Ruins (Fla)
• Bulow Creek (Fla)
• Bunnell (Fla)
• Flagler County (Fla)

Subject Corporate

• Florida Park Service

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