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The Bulow Plantation Ruins Exploration Scavenger Hunt
The Bulow Plantation Ruins Exploration Scavenger Hunt
An interactive webspace from Stephen Bitgood's "Bulow Cultural Resource Assessment Survey"
Detailed Map of the Bulow Sugar Mill Ruins, Including Interpretive Panels
Maps of the Bulow Plantation Ruins State Park
Maps of the Bulow Plantation Ruins State Park
The Sugar Mill Ruins
This guide will take you through the Ruins one interpretive panel after another. By reading the text in the panels, you will be able to find answers to the questions in this guide.
Down below, you will find the questions for each of the 10 panels as well as an image provided to help you locate where the answers will be provided.
1. "Sweet Dreams" panel
1. "Sweet Dreams" panel
When was the Bulow Plantation built?
What time period did the sugar plantations thrive?
How did the Bulow Plantation compare with others?
When and who burned the Plantation?
2. "Driven by Sweat and Steam" panel
2. "Driven by Sweat and Steam" panel
How was sugar processed before the steam engine?
What were the advantages of steam power?
What was the steam engine used for when not making sugar?
3. "Personal Provisions" panel
3. "Personal Provisions" panel
How were the Plantation population fed?
Are there any images of the Bulow Plantation from the 1820s or 1830s?
4. "Cane Juice" panel
4. "Cane Juice" panel
What is "Bagasse" and how did the sugar cane become bagasse?
5. "Kettles and Operation" panel
5. "Kettles and Operation" panel
What were the five kettles, in the order from largest to smallest, called?
How were the five kettles used to form syrup?
6. "Riding the Jamaica Train" panel
6. "Riding the Jamaica Train" panel
What were conditions like for the workers during the sugar-making season?
What was the "Jamaica Train"?
7. "Just a Spoonful of Sugar" panel
7. "Just a Spoonful of Sugar" panel
What happened in the purgery?
What product was made from the Plantation's molasses?
8. "Storing and Loading" panel
8. "Storing and Loading" panel
What was a "Hogshead"?
What role did Hogsheads play in making sugar?
9. "Beyond the Plantation" panel
9. "Beyond the Plantation" panel
What was the last step in producing sugar?
How was the sugar transported to market?
10. "Shaped by Fire" panel (Found on the hiking trail)
10. "Shaped by Fire" panel (Found on the hiking trail)
What are some of the benefits of fire?
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