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Kingsley Plantation
> Strange feelings, poltergeist and actual sightings have been reported on
> the plantation. One of the apparitions appears to be the wife of the owner
> of the plantation, Anna Jai Kingsley, an African princess.
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If I thought that the road to Ft. Clinch [1] was looming with dark trees,
then that was nothing compared to the road from Tabby House [2] to the
Kingsley Plantation. The Ft. Clinch road was paved, this wasn't; I swear the
car nearly shook itself apart on the road. It was also longer than the Ft.
Clinch access road. On the rare breaks in the dense forest you could see
wetlands and swamp. It then finally breaks and you end up at the slave
quarters.
The two dozen ruins are arranged in a semcircle. One building has been
restored, but the rest are in various states of ruin, from full height to
about a foot high. Each building is not much larger than 15' x 15' and most
are constructed of two rooms each. The buildings themselves were all made of
tabby.
While walking around the slave quarters I came across another banana spider
in a web spanning two trees some ten feet apart. In my twenty years of living
in South Florida I've only seen one, yet in North Florida I've seen two so
far. I guess they're more common up here.
Up the road another hundred yards or so was the main plantation house, a
large imposing wooden structure. It used to be two buildings, the main house
and behind it a smaller kitchen house but now there was a covered walkway
between the two, home to yet another banana spider. That made three.
But yet again, no paranormal manefestations.
[1]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2000/08/13.3
[2]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2000/08/13.4
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