Sylvania Plantation

Sylvania Plantation is a Florida historical marker in Marianna, Jackson County, dedicated 1961.

on C.R.164, 4.2 miles E. of its intersection with, Marianna

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Near this site stood "Sylvania", the plantation home of John Milton, Florida's Civil War governor, who settled in Jackson County in 1845. Milton's holdings consisted of 2,600 acres, a manor house, a school and family chapel, barns, blacksmith shop, and quarters for 50 slaves. Chief crops were cotton and corn. Here Gov. Milton, exhausted by his labors for the Confederate cause, took his life at the end of the war.

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1837 · Southern States. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1841 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1842 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1845 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1850 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Southern States, 1837, covering the location of Sylvania Plantation, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Southern States, 1837, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Florida Historical Marker Program, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State

Sylvania Plantation

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