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Unit Name: Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park<br />

Acres: 32.69 Managing<br />

Agency:<br />

Description:<br />

DRP<br />

Current Management Plan<br />

Approved:<br />

This antebellum mansion was home to Major Robert Gamble and headquarters <strong>of</strong> an extensive<br />

sugar plantation. Today, the mansion is furnished in the style <strong>of</strong> a successful mid-19th century<br />

plantation. Guided tours <strong>of</strong> the house are given and there are picnic tables on the grounds.<br />

Accomplishments:<br />

Resource Management<br />

• Removed exotic vegetation from canals along the northern and eastern park boundary, and a<br />

maintenance program was developed with the County.<br />

• Installed a new fence at the Sugar Mill Ruins to keep feral pigs <strong>of</strong>f the site.<br />

Visitor Services<br />

• The Park CSO formed an interior design committee to oversee the replacement <strong>of</strong> deteriorating<br />

fabrics and textiles, to be funded by the CSO<br />

Capital Improvements<br />

• National Park Service specialists replaced all windows in the north wing <strong>of</strong> the mansion and<br />

stabilized the west wall.<br />

223<br />

2003

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