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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M83- 14
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Title, Dates: Orange Park photographs, 1895.
Amount: 2 photographs
Medium Included: photographs
Organization/Arrangement: Unarranged.
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Biographical/Historical:     Orange Park is a town in northeast Florida on the banks of the St. Johns River in Clay County. In 1803, the land in this area was developed by the forced labor of Black men enslaved by Zephaniah Kingsley, creating his Laurel Grove labor farm. In 1877, the Florida Winter Home Improvement Company of Boston, Massachusetts, founded Orange Park. The founders designed the town's street system, including Plainfield Avenue, River Road, and Kingsley Avenue, and divided the area into residential and farm plots. They planted orange trees at each plot, a valuable cash crop in North Florida at the time, to attract buyers.
Summary:     This collection consists of two photographs that document the rural nature of Orange Park in the late nineteenth century, as well as the architecture of the area. One image is of Kingsley Avenue lined by orange trees and residences. The other image is of a local farm with two boys playing out front with animals and workers visible in the background.
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General Note: Florida Photographic Collection Number P1983-14.
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Subject Access Fields: Agriculture Florida
Roads Florida.
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Clay County (Fla.)
Orange Park (Fla.)
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