During its heyday in the 1820's and 30's, "Bulowville" was a thriving 4,600 acre plantation where sugar cane, cotton, rice and indigo were successfully grown and harvested to help supply the appetite of a growing America. Florida, however, was a true frontier in those days and the natives were restless.

.....As the United States government prepared to relocate the Seminole nation to reservations in the west, the Indians grew ever more hostile. The outbreak of the Second Seminole War forced the plantation owner, John Bulow, to abandon his beloved Bulowville to seek protection from troops to the north. Alas, in late January of 1836, the Seminoles burned Bulowville, leaving only coquina rock ruins of the sugar mill, several wells, a spring house and the foundation of a once beautiful mansion. Eventually the cleared fields were reclaimed by the forest, leaving the area looking just as it did when it belonged to Florida's natives.

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