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Author Wayne, Lucy B. (Lucy Bowles), 1947-

Title Sweet cane : the architecture of the sugar works of East Florida / Lucy B. Wayne.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 176 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents I. Sugar and plantations -- Introduction -- Plantations as industrial complexes -- Sweet cane -- Sugar in East Florida -- II. The architecture of East Florida sugar plantations -- Architectural influences -- The Spanish trains: Oswald/Yonge Three Chimneys and McHardy -- The adaptive sugar works: Dummett and Spring Garden -- The fully evolved sugar works: Bulow, Macrae, Cruger-DePeyster, and Dunlawton -- The end of an industry.
Summary From the late eighteenth century to early 1836, the heart of the Florida sugar industry was concentrated in East Florida, between the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean. Producing the sweetest sugar, molasses, and rum, at least 22 sugar plantations dotted the coastline by the 1830s. This industry brought prosperity to the region--employing farm hands, slaves, architects, stone masons, riverboats and their crews, shop keepers, and merchant traders. But by January 1836, Native American attacks of the Second Seminole War, intending to rid the Florida frontier of settlers, devastated the whole.
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Subject Sugar plantations -- History.
Sugar plantations.
History.
Sugarcane industry -- History.
Sugarcane industry.
Mills and mill-work -- History.
Mills and mill-work.
Architecture, Industrial -- History.
Architecture, Industrial.
Masonry -- History.
Masonry.
Historic buildings.
Historic buildings.
Historic sites.
Historic sites.
Industrial archaeology.
Industrial archaeology.
East Florida -- History, Local.
East Florida -- Antiquities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Local history.
Other Form: C Original 9780817316969 0817316965 (DLC) 2009047699
ISBN 9780817382872 (electronic book)
0817382879 (electronic book)
9780817316969
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