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Leroy N. Pearce in his 1914-1915 Chase Flareside truck
1916
Cheves Ice Factory
Cheves Ice Factory
Newberry Train Depot
Newberry High School
The Historic Dudley Farm
Capt. Phillip Benjamin Harvey Dudley, 1814-1881 CSA
In the mid-1800s, the Dudley family moved from Charleston, SC to North Central Florida. Three generations owned and worked the 640-acre piece of land. By the 1880s, the Dudley farm was a significant crossroads community, successfully maintaining livestock, crops and large vegetable gardens and attaining prominence in Alachua County. Phillip Benjamin Harvey Dudley, Jr. assumed ownership of the farm in 1881 and began to develop the complex farm. Eighteen buildings constructed between the 1880s and 1945 include the 1880s family farmhouse and separate kitchen, general store, dairy shed, canning house, smokehouse, syrup house and mill, hay and tobacco barns, stables, and drinking well. Now an authentic working farm, the homestead consists of the original eighteen buildings, including the family farmhouse with some of the original furnishings, an 1880s kitchen outbuilding, a general store, sweet potato cellar, and a cane syrup complex. Interpreters may be working the farm in the lifestyle of the 1880s to 1940s as they perform daily chores, work the crops, and tend to livestock.
Staff and volunteers dress in period clothing and complete traditional chores, including tending to livestock and sugar cane farming. Dudley Farm Historic State Park, also listed on the National Register, has been described as the best-documented pioneer family farm in the nation. Dressed in period clothing, park staff members perform daily chores, raise crops and tend to livestock in traditional ways. Visitors can enjoy seasonal events such as cane grindings and learn about heritage varieties of livestock and plant.
Farm house
Barn and pump house
Oat thrashing
Storing silage
Water tower and well
Bartram Trail
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PO BOX 1909
POST FALLS, ID 83877