Kingsley Plantation, also known as the Zephaniah Kingsley Plantation Home and Buildings, is a former estate on Fort George Island in Duval County, Florida, named for its longtime owner Zephaniah Kingsley, who lived there for twenty-five years. Its owner's house, built around 1797 to 1798, is the oldest surviving plantation house standing in Florida. The plantation once covered the entire roughly seven-hundred-acre island, and the site still preserves twenty-three tabby-concrete slave cabins considered among the best-preserved examples of their kind in the United States. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and became part of the National Park Service in 1991.
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Completed YearThe article gives construction of the main residence as between 1797 and 1798 and its infobox says 1797 or 1798, so 1798 is the latest possible completion year. Building TypeFormer plantation estate 1 LocationFort George Island, Duval County, Florida 1 Classification
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Kingsley Plantation (also known as the Zephaniah Kingsley Plantation Home and Buildings) is the site of a former estate on Fort George Island, in Duval County, Florida, that was named for its developer and most famous owner, Zephaniah Kingsley, who spent 25 years there.
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is the site of a former estate on Fort George Island, in Duval County, Florida
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Kingsley Plantation (also known as the Zephaniah Kingsley Plantation Home and Buildings) is the site of a former estate
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The main residence of the Fort George plantation is a unique two-story house that was constructed between 1797 and 1798 by John McQueen
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Kingsley's house is the oldest plantation house still standing in Florida, and the solidly-built village of slave cabins is one of the best preserved in the United States.
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The foundations of the house, kitchen, barn, and the slave quarters were constructed of durable tabby concrete.
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