River side of the Zephaniah Kingsley house at the Kingsley Plantation State Park on Fort George Island in Jacksonville, Florida.

Title

• River side of the Zephaniah Kingsley house at the Kingsley Plantation State Park on Fort George Island in Jacksonville, Florida.

Image Number

• RC12640

Year

• 192-?

Series Title

• General: Reference collection

General Note

• Kingsley Plantation later became a state park from the 1950s until 1989. Tours of the house, furnished with antiques purchased in the 1950s and 1960s, were offered by park staff. In 1989, U.S. Representative Charles Bennett negotiated the creation of the Timucuan Ecological and Historical Preserve, which would include national, state, and city properties and parks. As part of the negotiation, the State of Florida purchased Fort George Island to be used as a state park, but transferred Kingsley Plantation to the National Park Service.
• Accompanying note: "Built in the 1810s".

Physical Description

• 1 photoprint - b&w - 7 x 10 in.

Subject Term

• Dwellings--Florida--Jacksonville
• Historic buildings--Florida--Jacksonville
• Architecture, Domestic--Florida--Jacksonville
• Plantations--Florida--Jacksonville
• Historic sites--Florida--Jacksonville
• Houses--Florida--Jacksonville
• Widow's walks

Geographic Term

• Kingsley Plantation (Jacksonville, Fla)
• Kingsley Plantation State Historical Site (Fort George Island, Fla)--History
• Fort George Island (Fla)--Buildings, structures, etc
• Jacksonville (Fla)--Buildings, structures, etc
• Duval County (Fla)--Buildings, structures, etc

Personal Subject

• Kingsley, Z. (Zephaniah), 1765-1843--Homes and haunts

Shelf Number

• Shelf number: 16534.

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