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Gamble Plantation Historic State Park

Florida

3708 Patten Avenue
Ellenton, FL 34222
United States

Website

https://www.floridastateparks.org/park/Gamble-Plantation

This mansion was the home of Maj. Robert Gamble and served as the center of a large sugar plantation in the antebellum period. Confederate Secretary of State, Judah P. Benjamin, took refuge in the house as he fled the country after the fall of the Confederacy.

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