Sea Island Cotton Resources
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Book Resources Porcher, Richard Dwight and Fick Sara; 2005. Story of Sea Island Cotton. Wyrick & Company. Schafer, Daniel L; "Zephaniah Kingsley’s Laurel Grove Plantation, 1803-1813" in Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida, in Landers, Jane G., Ed. 2000. University Press of Florida. Yafa, Stephen; 2005. Big Cotton. Viking. Web Resources (You are leaving the National Park Service website when you click on the following links.) Bellis, Mary. Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin. About.com: Inventors. Cotton’s Journey – The Story of Cotton; 2003. The Alaca Company. The Cotton South before and after the Civil War, Chapter Outline from Major Problems In American Environmental History. The Great Cotton Revolution in England and America. August 31, 1861. The New York Herald. Farmers Urged to Produce Sea Island Cotton. October 18, 2006. Jamaica Information Service. Partners of the Americas Farmer to Farmer Program. Gomes, Anthony, February 1, 2006. Spinning a Yarn. The Jamaican Observer. Nevis Set to Revive Cotton Production. January 13, 2007. Caribbean Net News. Return to Sea Island Cotton. Return to History of Kingsley Plantation. |
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The first translation of a Native American language into a European language – Timucuan to Spanish - occurred on lands within the Timucuan Preserve in the late 1500s. Fray Francisco Pareja did this translation at the Catholic mission of San Juan del Puerto on present day Ft. George Island. More...