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Dudley Farm Historic State Park

Coordinates: 29°39′15″N 82°32′37″W / 29.65417°N 82.54361°W / 29.65417; -82.54361
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Dudley Farm
Dudley Farm visitor center
Dudley Farm Historic State Park is located in Florida
Dudley Farm Historic State Park
Dudley Farm Historic State Park is located in the United States
Dudley Farm Historic State Park
LocationAlachua County, Florida, U.S.
Nearest cityNewberry
Coordinates29°39′15″N 82°32′37″W / 29.65417°N 82.54361°W / 29.65417; -82.54361
Area325 acres (1.32 km2) (NRHP-listed area)
240 acres (97 ha) (NHL-designated area)
BuiltOctober 4, 2002
NRHP reference No.100006234[1]
Designated NHLDJanuary 13, 2021

Dudley Farm Historic State Park (Florida), also known as Dudley Farm, is a U.S. historic district and museum park located in Newberry, Florida. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on October 4, 2002, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021. The address is 18730 West Newberry Road (Florida State Road 26). The farm is a particularly fine and well-preserved example of a mid-19th to mid-20th century farm.

Description

The park encompasses approximately 325.6 acres (1.318 km2), and contains 21 historic buildings and 13 structures, including the family farmhouse with original furnishings, an 1880s kitchen outbuilding, a general store and post office, and a cane syrup complex.

The farm maintains a registered Cracker cattle herd, and at least one Florida Cracker horse. There are also chickens and turkeys on the farm. These are specimens of poultry breeds common on late 19th and early 20th century U.S. farms. During part of its existence, the farm was a large, local egg producer.[2] The site is a working farm, showing agricultural development in Florida from the late 1850s through the mid-1940s. After that period, the farm was used solely for subsistence farming by a few third-generation family members. In 1996, Myrtle Dudley, the youngest and last living member of the third generation, died, leaving the site to the Florida Park Service.

References

See also

References

  • Ferry, Richard J. (1983). Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian, Civil and Spanish-American Wars. Board of State Institutions. OCLC 1164678973.
  • Pickard, Ben; Sally Morrison (2003). Dudley Farm : A History of Florida Farm Life. Gainesville, Florida: Alachua Press. OCLC 58458699.

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