City: Marianna   County: Jackson   Year: 1961
Location: on C.R.164, 4.2 miles E. of its intersection with

Near this site stood "Sylvania", the plantation home of John Milton, Florida's Civil War governor, who settled in Jackson County in 1845. Milton's holdings consisted of 2,600 acres, a manor house, a school and family chapel, barns, blacksmith shop, and quarters for 50 slaves. Chief crops were cotton and corn. Here Gov. Milton, exhausted by his labors for the Confederate cause, took his life at the end of the war.

Portrait of John Milton between 1861 and 1865

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