Gamble Plantation Historic State Park
Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park
A stately antebellum plantation home preserved and restored
In 1925, the house and 16 acres were saved by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and donated to the state. Today, the mansion is furnished in the style of a successful mid-19th century plantation. Guided tours of the house are given six times a day, Thursday through Monday, and there are picnic tables on the grounds. The visitor center is open from 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Monday; it is closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Located in Ellenton on U.S. 301 South.
https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/judah-p-benjamin-confederate-memorial-gamble-plantation-historic-state-park
GAMBLE PLANTATION HISTORIC STATE PARK
https://www.stateparks.com/gamble_plantation_historic_state_park_in_florida.html
There are 2 chapters of printed history about the Gamble Plantation in the Blanchard House Museum’s office. Ask the docent for the binder.
Gamble on Cattle and Cane - from Edge of Wilderness, A Settlement History of
Manatee River and Sarasota Bay 1528 – 1885, by Janet Snyder Matthews
Sugar Along the Manatee: Major Robert Gamble, Jr. and the Development of
Gamble Plantation by Michael G. Schene (Tequesta, journal of the Historical
Association of Southern Florida)
Florida’s Antebellum Plantation – Part 1
An interesting website that contains a vast amount of Florida Plantation history and data.
http://www.dejaelaine.com/abplantations.html
Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park
A stately antebellum plantation home preserved and restored
In 1925, the house and 16 acres were saved by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and donated to the state. Today, the mansion is furnished in the style of a successful mid-19th century plantation. Guided tours of the house are given six times a day, Thursday through Monday, and there are picnic tables on the grounds. The visitor center is open from 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Monday; it is closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Located in Ellenton on U.S. 301 South.
https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/judah-p-benjamin-confederate-memorial-gamble-plantation-historic-state-park
GAMBLE PLANTATION HISTORIC STATE PARK
https://www.stateparks.com/gamble_plantation_historic_state_park_in_florida.html
There are 2 chapters of printed history about the Gamble Plantation in the Blanchard House Museum’s office. Ask the docent for the binder.
Gamble on Cattle and Cane - from Edge of Wilderness, A Settlement History of
Manatee River and Sarasota Bay 1528 – 1885, by Janet Snyder Matthews
Sugar Along the Manatee: Major Robert Gamble, Jr. and the Development of
Gamble Plantation by Michael G. Schene (Tequesta, journal of the Historical
Association of Southern Florida)
Florida’s Antebellum Plantation – Part 1
An interesting website that contains a vast amount of Florida Plantation history and data.
http://www.dejaelaine.com/abplantations.html
