{"id":7785,"date":"2019-05-22T17:24:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T21:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=7785"},"modified":"2019-05-22T17:24:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T21:24:33","slug":"bulow-plantation-ruins-historic-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/22\/bulow-plantation-ruins-historic-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7786\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0520191226_HDR.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7786\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7786\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0520191226_HDR-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Sugar mill ruins\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0520191226_HDR-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0520191226_HDR-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0520191226_HDR-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0520191226_HDR-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0520191226_HDR-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sugar mill ruins<\/p><\/div>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_7787\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0520191229_HDR.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7787\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0520191229_HDR-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Left side of the mill\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0520191229_HDR-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0520191229_HDR-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0520191229_HDR-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0520191229_HDR-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0520191229_HDR-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left side of the mill<\/p><\/div>I finally got to visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bulow_Plantation_Ruins_Historic_State_Park\">Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park<\/a> which is basically adjacent to our RV park.  Despite its proximity it wasn&#8217;t easy to get to, requiring a long drive down a narrow dirt road.  I paid the $4 fee and got in to see&#8230; not much.  There are some ruins, yes, of the sugar mill. But no ruins of the plantation mansion itself.  The plantation was a major sugar cane provider from 1820 to 1836 when it was destroyed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seminole_Wars\">Second Seminole War<\/a>. That war, by the way, was due to the Seminole Indians objecting to the US Army trying to move them out of Florida.  Who knew they would be so sensitive?<\/p>\n<p>It looks like there were some nice nature trails within the park. But there are also some nice ones outside the park.  If I wanted to walk I would save the $4.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_7790\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0520191227_HDR.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7790\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7790\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/0520191227_HDR-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Historic marker\" width=\"480\" height=\"285\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7790\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Historic marker<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got to visit the Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park which is basically adjacent to our RV park. Despite its proximity it wasn&#8217;t easy to get to, requiring a long drive down a narrow dirt road. I paid the $4 fee and got in to see&#8230; not much. There are some ruins, yes, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/22\/bulow-plantation-ruins-historic-state-park\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,41,4,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-fl","category-places","category-tn5"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-21z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7792,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7785\/revisions\/7792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}