The other day, I went on a field trip to look at a local former slave plantation. I ran across information about the Bulow Plantation, a former sugar plantation that has been converted into a state park. I've lived in Flagler County in Florida for nearly three years now and had never heard of the Bulow Plantation, which is literally within walking distance, given I once walked that far while participating in a walk-a-thon while in college.
There isn't much left of the original plantation. Seminole Indians burned down the sugar mill during the Second Seminole War, which lasted seven years. It seems plantation owner John Joachim Bulow got along rather well with the local Seminole tribe. He traded with them and was against them being forced west of the Mississippi River under the Indian Relocation Act of 1830. The Seminoles were good with Bulow until the Mosquito Roarer militia made the plantation their headquarters while trying to enforce relocation of the Seminoles. When the Mosquito Roarers approached, John Bulow fired a warning shot with a cannon. He was placed under house arrest and taken away to St. Augustine when the militia lost decisively in a battle with the Seminole at Dunlawton Plantation to the south.