Dummitt Sugar Mill Ruins, on an Early Florida Morning

Video and Sound By: Emily Suzanne 2024
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Dummett Sugar Mill Ruins - Ormond Beach, Florida
The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War. In its heyday, the Dummett plantation harvested some 2,000 acres of sugarcane to be distilled into rum. Built in 1825, it was the site of the first steam-powered cane crushing mill, helping bring the Industrial Revolution to the growing United States.Today, little remains of the plantation, which was burned to the ground during the Second Seminole War. The ruins of the mill are a large, irregular wall made from brick and coquina (a native limestone formed from broken shells) with twin chimneys. Some say the site is haunted by active spirits, but the eerie structures remains silent relics of the area’s troubled past.The plantation swapped owners from 1804 to 1825, when Colonel Thomas Dummett, a British Marine officer, bought the land and the 200 slaves working there. At the time, Florida was experiencing a rush of people hoping to make fortunes by growing sugarcane for rum.Dummett named the plantation “Carrikfergus” and established the largest sugar processing plant south of St. Augustine. He recruited an Irish engineer to build the first steam-powered cane crushing mill in the area, an innovation that could produce four times the power compared to water-powered mills. The mill ceased running in 1835 when the plantation was raided by local Seminoles, during a time when the American government was forcefully relocating Native Americans under the Indian Removal Act. The tribes refused to leave, prompting the Second Seminole War. The Dummett family fled to St. Augustine while Seminoles raided and burned the plantations that occupied the land that was once theirs.

[@richard1849]

2,34 min in. yes, thank you, get after it, boots on the ground... love it! There is a ton going on here and clearly multiple periods of "restoration" and varying times Btwn the brick, the old stone, the new brick, the wood etc.. nice job, im following. peace.

[@curvebuster]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮

[@whereemilywanders4392]

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[@TimothyMichaels]

Haunted by active "spirits," I see what you did there Emily 😅

[@Notavlogger817]

So how old is this

[@whereemilywanders4392]

1825, so it says. There is more info in the description as well ☺

[@Notavlogger817]

@@whereemilywanders4392 cool thank you