Sweet cane : the architecture of the sugar works of East Florida /

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From the late eighteenth century to early 1836, the heart of the Florida sugar industry was concentrated in East Florida, between the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean. Producing the sweetest sugar, molasses, and rum, at least 22 sugar plantations dotted the coastline by the 1830s. This industr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wayne, Lucy B. (Lucy Bowles), 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Sugar plantations > History.
Sugarcane industry > History.
Mills and mill-work > History.
Architecture, Industrial > History.
Masonry > History.
Historic buildings.
Historic sites.
Industrial archaeology.
Canne à sucre > Industrie > Histoire.
Architecture industrielle > Histoire.
Maçonnerie > Histoire.
Lieux historiques.
Archéologie industrielle.
industrial archaeology.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Antiquities
Architecture, Industrial
Historic buildings
Historic sites
Industrial archaeology
Masonry
Mills and mill-work
Sugar plantations
Sugarcane industry
East Florida > History, Local.
East Florida > Antiquities.
Floride orientale > Histoire locale.
Florida > East Florida
History
Local history
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Sugar and plantations
  • Introduction
  • Plantations as industrial complexes
  • Sweet cane
  • Sugar in East Florida
  • II. The architecture of East Florida sugar plantations
  • Architectural influences
  • The Spanish trains: Oswald/Yonge Three Chimneys and McHardy
  • The adaptive sugar works: Dummett and Spring Garden
  • The fully evolved sugar works: Bulow, Macrae, Cruger-DePeyster, and Dunlawton
  • The end of an industry.

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