Sweet cane : the architecture of the sugar works of East Florida / Lucy B. Wayne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wayne, Lucy B. (Lucy Bowles), 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sugar plantations--East Florida--History.

Sugar plantations.

Sugarcane industry--East Florida--History.

Sugarcane industry.

Mills and mill-work--East Florida--History.

Mills and mill-work.

Architecture, Industrial--East Florida--History.

Architecture, Industrial.

Masonry--East Florida--History.

Masonry.

Historic buildings--East Florida.

Historic buildings.

Historic sites--East Florida.

Historic sites.

Industrial archaeology--East Florida.

Industrial archaeology.

East Florida--History, Local.

East Florida.

East Florida--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A look at the antebellum history and architecture of the little-known sugar industry of East Florida. 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 1830's. This industry brought prosperity to the region-employing farm hands, slaves, architects, stone masons, riverboats and their crews, shop keepers, and me

Contents:

pt. I. Sugar and plantations. Plantations as industrial complexes

Sweet cane

Sugar in East Florida

pt. 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8287-9

OCLC:

764543042