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Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve & Fort Caroline National Memorial
Closures at Kingsley Plantation
 
A preservation staff member is hewing a sill beam for the historic kitchen house.
Ted Chambers, a member of the Great Smoky Mountains preservation team, is hewing a sill beam for the historic kitchen house at Kingsley Plantation.
 

Stabilization projects are underway at for the Kitchen House, Main House, and Slave Quarters. During this time, historic buildings will be closed. The park and grounds will remain open daily.

The Kitchen House (c. 1820), Main House (c. 1798), and the ruins of 25 of the original 32 slave cabins (ca. 1820s) at Kingsley Plantation are integral parts of the complex associated with the plantation life in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and with the life of Zephaniah Kingsley. The slave cabins are registered on the National Register of Historic Places as one of the most intact examples of the plantation system in Florida.

To learn more about the project and follow its progress, choose one of the links on the right. Have questions? Call the park at 904.251.3537.

Beam installation in kitchen house at Kingsley Plantation
Project Updates and Photographs
Track the progress of the structural work projects at Kingsley Plantation.
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Plantation house at Kingsley Plantatio, circa 1870s
History of a House
Learn more about the history of the plantation house at Kingsley Plantation.
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Did You Know?
Jacksonville, Florida was invaded by the Union Army four separate times during the Civil War and two battles of significance were fought within the boundary of Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve.
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Last Updated: September 06, 2006 at 13:53 EST