Welcome to Florida

Episode 297: Turnbull Plantation and Menorcans


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Florida U.S. Representative Cory Mills is one of the most unscrupulous politicians and businesspeople in the state, or nation.

Colonial history in what is now Florida typically revolves around the Spanish, but for a period between the 1760s and 1780s, the English occupied the state. Andrew Turnbull tried establishing a British-style plantation in the New Smyrna Beach area with disastrous results. Greg Holbrook, Executive Director at the New Smyrna Museum of History, tells us all about it.

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