Florida Memory • Leonard Dakin with family and friends at the Racimo Plantation near Georgetown.

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Leonard Dakin with family and friends at the Racimo Plantation near Georgetown.

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Image Number

MSC6304

Photographer

F.B. Pine's Floating Photographic Studio of the Saint Johns River.

Date

1880 (circa)

Rights

Collection

Manuscript collection
, M82-37

Physical Description

1 photoprint - sepia - 4.5 x 7.75 in.

General Note

In the early 1880s George Dakin bought property on the Saint Johns River near Georgetown and established Leonard there. In the next ten years Leonard developed a plantation called Racimo with 5000 orange trees, 40 workers and a large packing house. The grove was destroyed by the 1895 freeze. Leonard Dakin is in the buggy at the left.

Leonard Dakin with family and friends at the Racimo Plantation near Georgetown.

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Title

Leonard Dakin with family and friends at the Racimo Plantation near Georgetown.

Subject

Sepia prints

Cabinet photographs

Agriculture--Florida--Putnam County--Georgetown Region

Farms--Florida--Putnam County--Georgetown Region

Plantations--Florida--Putnam County--Georgetown Region

Farmers--Florida--Putnam County--Georgetown Region

Plantation owners--Florida--Putnam County--Georgetown Region

Landowners--Florida--Putnam County--Georgetown Region

Creator

F.B. Pine's Floating Photographic Studio of the Saint Johns River.

Date

1880 (circa)

Identifier

MSC6304

Image URL

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Geographic Term

Putnam County (Fla.)

Racimo Plantation (Georgetown Region, Fla.)

Color

b&w

Physical Description

1 photoprint - sepia - 4.5 x 7.75 in.

Series Title

Manuscript collection

Manuscript Collection, M82-37

General Note

Subject - Person

Dakin, Leonard, 1858-1940.

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Chicago Manual of Style

F.B. Pine's Floating Photographic Studio of the Saint Johns River. Leonard Dakin with family and friends at the Racimo Plantation near Georgetown. 1880 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/343402>, accessed 7 June 2026.

MLA

F.B. Pine's Floating Photographic Studio of the Saint Johns River. Leonard Dakin with family and friends at the Racimo Plantation near Georgetown. 1880 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/343402>

AP Style Photo Citation

(State Archives of Florida/F.B. Pine's Floating Photographic Studio of the Saint Johns River.)

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Leonard Dakin with family and friends at the Racimo Plantation near Georgetown.