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Comment by Craig M. Bozorth on April 5, 2015 at 11:25

The 'Kingsley Plantation' was active from the 1790's to the end of the Civil War. Some freed slaves stayed on to work as 'share-croppers. Crops were sugar, indigo, rice, tobacco, okra and 'Sea-Isle cotton whose strands were soft as silk and could not be cleaned in a 'Gin' as the fibers would be crushed. Sitting on the St, Mary's river and St. George's Island, it was far off the beaten track but quite impressive for the sights. 

Comment by Craig M. Bozorth on April 5, 2015 at 11:18

'Slave' quarters on the Kingsley Plantation. King George's Island; maybe 20 miles north of Jacksonville, FL off A1A.

Comment by Jan Carter on April 4, 2015 at 19:40

Craig,

Where are you?

Comment by Ken Spielvogel on April 4, 2015 at 9:56

Craig, tell us about this, any history?