The Bulow Plantation, founded by Charles Wilhelm Bulow II (who bought the land) and John Joachim Bulow (who built the plantation), only was operational from 1821 to 1836, when US Army troops led by Major Benjamin Putnam used the plantation as a fortress briefly during the winter of 1835 and 1836. Then after it was abandoned, it was soon burned down by Seminole forces. 

If you currently are in the main entrance area around the picnic pavilion, you are standing close to where the main Bulow house was formerly located. These two images on the left are representations of what the Bulow mansion could have looked like, due to the fact that there are no surviving paintings or photographs of the Bulow plantation (the only major painting that presumably represents the Bulow plantation: "Tell-tale Godwit, or Snipe" by John James Audubon (1836) below, only shows some of the slave cabins).