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Below, you will find multiple academic sources and further readings of the Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park. Please take the time to look at each of the sources which explain further details of the history of Bulowville.
The red area on this present map of Florida is presumably where John Russell's 4,675-acre landholding was from 1812 to 1821, located in present-day Flagler and Volusia Counties.
The Biography of John Russell
The Biography of John Russell
John Russell was the first man to own the land in northeastern Florida that would become the Bulow Plantation, as he would acquire the 4,675 acres of land in 1811 as seen on this map of Florida on the left. After he passed away the next year, his family would sell the land to Major Charles Wilhelm Bulow II 9 years later in 1821. Select the link below to read John Russell's biography.
The Obituary of Charles Wilhelm Bulow
The Obituary of Charles Wilhelm Bulow
Two years after Major Charles Wilhelm Bulow II purchased the 4,675 acres of land held by John Russell's family and started developing the Bulowville Plantation in 1821, on May 7th (or 1st), 1823, Bulow passed away presumably from complications of yellow fever. The East Florida Herald's issue posted his obituary on May 10, 1823, whuch briefly discussed his investment on his plantation. If you would like to read the obituary, click the link below, and make sure you're on Page 3 of the East Florida Herald issue, and the Obituary will be on the top right corner of the page.
Charles Wilhelm Bulow II's obituary posted on the East Florida Herald's May 10, 1823 issue, described him as an admirable person as well as an aspiring sugarcane plantation investor.
The Burial Site of Charles Wilhelm Bulow
The Burial Site of Charles Wilhelm Bulow
Major Charles Wilhelm Bulow II, the founder of the Bulowville Plantation, passed away presumably from yellow fever on May 1st (or 7th), 1823. Bulow was buried in the Huguenot Cemetery outside of Downtown St. Augustine, Florida, approximately 40 miles north of the Bulowville Plantation. The inscription on his burial site describes his death date as May 1st, 1823, at the age of 44 (1779-1823), but his obituary describes him passing away on May 7th, 1823, at the age of 48 (1775-1823).
The Huguenot Cemetery in St. Augustine is open on the 3rd Saturday of each month, from 11:00am - 2:00pm. The cemetery is located north of the City Gates and can be entered from Castillo Drive/Avienda Menendez and from the Visitor's Center. Bulow's burial site is marked with a marble tomb in the southwest quadrant (marker 15) of the cemetery.
The Inscription on Bulow's Burial Site:
"Underneath this stone are deposited the remains of Col. CHARLES W. BULOW of Charleston So. Ca. who died on the 1st of May 1823, aged 44 years"
The Huguenot Cemetery, where Charles Wilhelm Bulow is buried, is located north of Downtown St. Augustine, Florida, and Bulow's tomb is located in the southwest quadrant of the cemetery. The red dots represent the location of Bulow's burial site.
The marble tomb where Charles Wilhelm Bulow II is buried at Huguenot Cemetery north of Downtown St. Augustine, Florida
GPS Mapping of the Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park
GPS Mapping of the Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park
In 2010, the Alliance for Integrated Spatial Technologies (AIST), in collaboration with a couple of USF students, completed a GPS mapping and metal prospection project of the Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park, as they investigated the sites of the slave cabins to find the accuracy of the sites without physically disturbing the sites. They further investigated 3 sites in the northeast quadrant of the Bulow Plantation Ruins because of visible coquina blocks. If you want to learn more about the mapping project, read the results below.
The AIST project used GPS mapping to determine the topographical structure of the Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park and metal prospection tools to determine the sites of the Slave Cabins
Slave Cabin 1 Exacavations of 2014 and 2015
Slave Cabin 1 Exacavations of 2014 and 2015
The excavations at the site of one of the Slave Cabins at the Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park were conducted by the University of Florida (UF) Department of Anthropology in 2014 and 2015. During these, they uncovered the full footprint of the slave cabin as well as many artifacts from the site. including ceramics and munitions. If you want to learn more, click the link below to read the overall results of the excavations.
Above: The Archaeology Team Excavating the Site of the Bulowville Slave Cabin 1.
Below: A partial reconstruction of a blue pearlware bowl found during the exacavations.
A Navigable 3-D Model of the Bulow Sugar Mill Ruins
A Navigable 3-D Model of the Bulow Sugar Mill Ruins
The Florida Public Archaeology Network created a 3-D model of the Bulowville Sugar Mill Ruins in a project sponsored by the US Department of State, Division of Historic Resources, and the State of Florida. Compare the photo of the model on the right to the artist's sketch of the Sugar Mill above, and you will see multiple similarities of the overall structure of what the Sugar Mill looked like. You can view the 3-D model of the Sugar Mill Ruins and look at it from different perspectives by clicking the link below.
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