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Overturning The Turnbull Settlement: Artifact Analysis Of The Old Stone Wharf In New Smyrna Beach, Florida, Tracy R. Lovingood
Overturning The Turnbull Settlement: Artifact Analysis Of The Old Stone Wharf In New Smyrna Beach, Florida, Tracy R. Lovingood
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This thesis is a report on an internship at the New Smyrna Museum of History, which primarily focused on the analysis of artifacts found at the primary import and export site of the Turnbull Settlement, called the Old Stone Wharf (8VO4298). The Turnbull settlement in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, was a plantation settlement founded by Dr. Andrew Turnbull of England, using the labor force of primarily European indentured servants. The settlement only lasted from 1768 to 1777. After it failed, all the inhabitants moved 75 miles north to St. Augustine and were able to flourish there, leaving a descendent community …