Gamble Plantation Historic State Park, Ellenton, FL
Our visit to the Gamble Plantation Historic State Park in Ellenton, FL.
Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park Pt 1
In the 1840's Major Robert Gamble, Jr. oversaw the construction of this house which served as the headquarters for the largest sugar plantation in Florida at that time. By the late 1850's due to economic downturn Gamble was forced to sell the property. The property's greatest claim to fame, and the sole reason the house stands today, is that during his successful evasion from federal capture, Confederate States of America, Secretary of State, Judah P. Benjamin briefly resided at this house on his journey toward his eventual departure point in present day Sarasota. Regardless, this house is the quintessential example of tabby construction in this part of the state, and the fact that it was saved from destruction is a testament to the work of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park Pt 3
In the 1840's Major Robert Gamble, Jr. oversaw the construction of this house which served as the headquarters for the largest sugar plantation in Florida at that time. By the late 1850's due to economic downturn Gamble was forced to sell the property. The property's greatest claim to fame, and the sole reason the house stands today, is that during his successful evasion from federal capture, Confederate States of America, Secretary of State, Judah P. Benjamin briefly resided at this house on his journey toward his eventual departure point in present day Sarasota. Regardless, this house is the quintessential example of tabby construction in this part of the state, and the fact that it was saved from destruction is a testament to the work of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park Pt 2
Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park
In the 1840's Major Robert Gamble, Jr. oversaw the construction of this house which served as the headquarters for the largest sugar plantation in Florida at that time. By the late 1850's due to economic downturn Gamble was forced to sell the property. The property's greatest claim to fame, and the sole reason the house stands today, is that during his successful evasion from federal capture, Confederate States of America, Secretary of State, Judah P. Benjamin briefly resided at this house on his journey toward his eventual departure point in present day Sarasota. Regardless, this house is the quintessential example of tabby construction in this part of the state, and the fact that it was saved from destruction is a testament to the work of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
AnthroAlert Podcast Episode 14: Community Archaeology
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## Episode 14: Community Archaeology
Originally aired 26 August 2017 on bullsradio.org
In this episode, we engage further into the discussion around heritage and historical archeology.
Our guest, Dr. Diane Wallman, will speak about ongoing archaeological research at the Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park, in Ellenton, Florida.
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Dr. Diane Wallman is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of South Florida in Tampa. She is a historical archaeologist who works on sites associated with Atlantic Slavery. As a zooarchaeologist, her research focuses on issues of human-environment dynamics during the colonial period in the Caribbean, Southeastern United States, and West Africa.
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We will discuss ongoing archaeological research at the Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park. Gamble Plantation is an important site for Florida and Tampa Bay history and heritage. Major Robert Gamble Jr. was one of several planters who established sugar plantations along the Manatee River in the mid-19th century. Gamble arrived in 1844 with a small group of enslaved individuals and purchased land to the north of the river for sugar cane production. Using slave labor, Gamble erected a tabby mansion that still stands on the parcel today, along with a large tabby cistern and several outbuildings. During the Civil War, Captain Archibald McNeill, a famous Confederate officer, temporarily occupied the premises. Confederate Secretary of State, Judah P. Benjamin, escaping Federal troops, took brief refuge on the property in May of 1865. After the war, George Patten bought the property, and his son constructed a Victorian-style house on the property in 1895. The house was relocated in the 1970s where it remains on park property today.
Ongoing archaeology research at the site, via archaeological field school, aims to expand on the understanding of the nuanced history at the site, including a diachronic and spatial examination of landscape transformation and material culture. During the field schools, the excavations are open to the public, and we invite community members to participate in the dig. The significance of the project encompasses more than just the history of the mansion, Robert Gamble, and the confederate occupants. Archaeological research focuses on a multidimensional exploration of the varied histories and occupations at the site, including the enslaved peoples who lived and labored on the plantation.
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Torreya State Park part 1 Gregory House
Part 1 of Torreya State Park in northern Florida, along the Apalachicola River. So close to the date line that my cell phone was displaying central time. So I guess that I really did go back in time.
In the park is the Gregory House. Finished in 1849. Moved here to the park in the 1930s/40s by the CCC, who did an amazing job of disassembling and reassembling the house. Now it overlooks the river from a high bluff.
A trail from here starts and goes around to the Confederate gun emplacements; built during the Civil War to prevent Yankee ships from going up the Apalachicola River, and eventually getting to the ship manufacturing yard in Columbus, Georgia.
The park is named after the Torreya Tree, a small conifer tree that is one of the oldest tree species surviving on the earth. Now extremely rare, they once covered everywhere, I suppose.
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AMH 102: The Negro Fort
The Battle of Negro Fort was a short military siege in 1816 in which forces of the United States assaulted and managed to blow up an African-American fortified stronghold in the frontier of northern Spanish Florida.
Judah P. Benjamin | Wikipedia audio article
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Judah P. Benjamin
00:02:30 1 Early and personal life
00:08:18 2 Louisiana lawyer
00:11:33 3 Electoral career
00:11:43 3.1 State politician
00:15:36 3.2 Mexican railroad
00:16:44 3.3 Election to the Senate
00:19:20 3.4 Spokesman for slavery
00:23:20 3.5 Secession crisis
00:27:55 4 Confederate statesman
00:28:04 4.1 Attorney General
00:31:39 4.2 Secretary of War
00:38:58 4.3 Confederate Secretary of State
00:39:26 4.3.1 Basis of Confederate foreign policy
00:41:49 4.3.2 Appointment
00:43:27 4.3.3 Early days (1862–1863)
00:48:14 4.3.4 Increasing desperation (1863–1865)
00:52:52 5 Escape
00:57:41 6 Exile
01:03:22 7 Appraisal
01:09:25 8 See also
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Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 11, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced that faith, and was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America.
Benjamin was born to Sephardic Jewish parents from London, who had moved to St. Croix in the Danish West Indies when it was occupied by Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. Seeking greater opportunities, his family immigrated to the United States, eventually settling in Charleston, South Carolina. Judah Benjamin attended Yale College but left without graduating. He moved to New Orleans, where he read law and passed the bar.
Benjamin rose rapidly both at the bar and in politics. He became a wealthy planter and slaveowner and was elected to and served in both houses of the Louisiana legislature prior to his election by the legislature to the US Senate in 1852. There, he was an eloquent supporter of slavery. After Louisiana seceded in 1861, Benjamin resigned as senator and returned to New Orleans.
He soon moved to Richmond after Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed him as Attorney General. Benjamin had little to do in that position, but Davis was impressed by his competence and appointed him as Secretary of War. Benjamin firmly supported Davis, and the President reciprocated the loyalty by promoting him to Secretary of State in March 1862, while Benjamin was being criticized for the rebel defeat at the Battle of Roanoke Island.
As Secretary of State, Benjamin attempted to gain official recognition for the Confederacy by France and the United Kingdom, but his efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. To preserve the Confederacy as military defeats made its situation increasingly desperate, he advocated freeing and arming the slaves late in the war, but his proposals were only partially accepted in the closing month of the war. When Davis fled the Confederate capital of Richmond in early 1865, Benjamin went with him. He left the presidential party and was successful in escaping from the mainland United States, but Davis was captured by Union troops. Benjamin sailed to Great Britain, where he settled and became a barrister, again rising to the top of his profession before retiring in 1883. He died in Paris the following year.
October 3, 2019 – BCC land Use Meeting
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