Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins
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| YULEE SUGAR MILL RUINS STATE HISTORIC SITE This 6 acre historic site was given by Claude Brooks Root in 1923 to the Citrus County Federation of Women's Clubs, who in turn donated it to the state of Florida |
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| DAVID LEVY YULEE (1810-1886), who built Florida's first cross
state railroad, was the States first U. S. Senator. He came to Florida
as an immigrant and rose to become an outstanding businessman and statesman. He served in Florida's territory counsel as territorial delegate to congress and helped write the States first constitution. His sugar mill began operation in 1849. During the Civil War he supplied the Confederates with sugar, syrup and molasses. Federal raiders burned the Yulee home May 29, 1864, but the mill and plantation escaped destruction. |
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| The fertile, moist soil and mild climate
of Florida's coastal areas was ideal for growing sugar cane and many
plantations went into operation during the early 1800's. Due to the
enormous amount of waste associated with the making of sugar, the cane
could not be economically shipped to a central mill for processing;
thus each plantation had its own equipment for removing the juice from
the cane and cooking it into sugar. The sugar produced here, unlike the white fine-granulated sugar that we use today, was moist, coarse and light brown in color. |
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| CANE HARVESTING...Sugar cane was planted in January and February and was ready for harvesting by the middle of October.Field workers cut the cane and loaded it on wagons to be brought here to make sugar. | |
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 BOILER A fire was built in this furnace which heated the boiler above providing steam to run the steam engine. |
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 WELLS This well and the one across the walk near the machinery supplied water for the boiler. |
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