Civil War | Historic Site
Gamble Plantation Historic State Park
Florida
3708 Patten Avenue
Ellenton, FL 34222
United States
This mansion was the home of Maj. Robert Gamble and served as the center of a large sugar plantation in the antebellum period. Confederate Secretary of State, Judah P. Benjamin, took refuge in the house as he fled the country after the fall of the Confederacy.
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