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The Florida Park Service was created in 1935 under the Board of Forestry (Chapter 17025, Laws of Florida). It was responsible for the development and operation of Florida's state parks. Its duties were transferred to the Board of Parks and Historic Memorials in 1949 (Ch. 25353, Laws). In 1969, the Board of Parks and Historic Memorials and the Outdoor Recreational Development Council were merged into a Division of Recreation and Parks, within the new Department of Natural Resources (Ch. 69-106, Laws). The Division's duties were to preserve, manage, protect, and regulate all parks and recreational areas which were held by the state of Florida. In 1993, the Department of Natural Resources merged with the Department of Environmental Regulation to form the new Department of Environmental Protection (Ch. 93-213, Laws).
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This series contains correspondence files maintained by both the Board of Parks and Historic Memorials and the Division of Recreation and Parks documenting exhibit planning projects which had been proposed or completed at various state parks from 1956 to 1973. The records include exhibit scripts, exhibit sketches, floor plans, inventories of state park properties and artifacts, park related expenditures, National Register nomination forms, invoices, museum objectives, photographs, and other general correspondence regarding each state park facility. The files document exhibits concerning significant historical, political, cultural, military, and social events which occurred throughout Florida, such as Florida's political beginnings at the first constitutional convention held in St. Joseph, Florida; Florida's first Senator, railroad owner David Levy Yulee; Zephaniah Kingsley Plantation documentation of life on a Southern plantation and of how slave ownership, plantation crops, and the forest industry affected the South; Florida's military significance, including several Seminole War battles (e.g. Dade's Massacre in 1835 and the Battle of Olustee in 1864); significant military figures, including General Duncan Lamont Clinch and Captain Francis Langhorne Dade; and several important cultural and social figures, including Alfred B. Maclay, Zephaniah Kingsley, James McNeill Whistler, and Albert E. (Beanie) Backus.
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Clinch, Duncan Lamont, 1787-1849 Kingsley, Z. 1765-1843 (Zephaniah), Yulee, David Levy, 1810-1886
Florida. Dept. of Natural Resources. --Division of Recreation and Parks Florida. Division of Recreation and Parks. Florida Park Service. Parks and Historic Memorials, Board of.
Constitutional conventions Florida Forests and forestry Florida Olustee (Fla.), Battle of, 1864. Parks Florida Plantation life Florida Seminole Indians. Seminole War, 1st, 1817-1818. Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842. Seminole War, 3rd, 1855-1858. Slavery Florida
Fort Clinch State Park (Fla.) Kingsley Plantation (Fort George Island, Fla.)
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