Kingsley Plantation Historic District Additional Documentation (McQueen Homestead) (for National Register of Historic Places)
National Park Service and Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.. 2016. Kingsley Plantation Historic District Additional Documentation (McQueen Homestead) (for National Register of Historic Places)
The property was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. This nomination constitutes additional documentation to reflect current scholarship and the findings of archeological investigations that have revealed new information about the history and material culture associated with the property. Kingsley Plantation, which lies along the Fort George River at the northern tip of Fort George Island in northeast Florida, twenty-three miles northeast of downtown Jacksonville, features surviving evidence of late-eighteenth-century buildings, structures, and landscape features, and constitutes the oldest extant plantation complex within the state of Florida. The 51-acre property is preserved and protected by the National Park Service as part of Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, a unit of the National Park System. It is bounded by the Fort George River to the north, marshland to the west, land administered by the State of Florida as part of Fort George Island Cultural State Park to the east, and Fort George Road (also referred to as Beatty Road and Edgewood Drive) to the south. Several of the roads that pass through the Kingsley Plantation property are owned by the City of Jacksonville.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- National Park Service; Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.
- Date of Issue
- 2016-09-23
- Units
- TIMU
- Keywords
- Anna Kingsley, Florida, Fort George Island, Kingsley Plantation, McQueen Homestead, National Register of Historic Places, Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, Zephaniah Kingsley