Sad Past
These are slave quarters at the Kingsley Plantation part of the Timucuan Preserve. There are about 80 of these tabby 2 room houses in a large semicircle at what would have been the edge of the fields. A sobering reminder of a difficult time. This plantation was unique in that the owner married one of his slaves and she was the mistress of the plantation for years until changing political climate hastened a move of his wife and children to Haiti for them to remain free. He remained on the plantation but would visit them in Haiti.