Historic Ponceannah, Lake County, Florida

Author(s): Michael (Mike) Wisenbaker

Year: 2015

Summary

This historic site was first recorded in the Florida Master Site File as LA2780 in 2003 during an archaeological and historical reconnaissance survey conducted by James Dunbar and Christine Newman, both former employees of the Florida Division of Historical Resources, Bureau of Archaeological Research, CARL

Archaeological Survey (now Public Lands Archaeology program) of Seminole State Forest in Lake County, Florida. Dunbar and Newman reported their findings in "An Assessment and Documentation of Cultural Resources in Seminole State Forest, Lake County, Florida," which was completed in January of 2004. While the entire report is available from the site file as a pdf file (Manuscript #9364), we have extracted (and edited for clarity and flow) portions of the report that addressed Ponceannah:

Cite this Record

Historic Ponceannah, Lake County, Florida. Michael (Mike) Wisenbaker. 2015 ( tDAR id: 454745) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8454745

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Keywords

Culture
early white settlement of Lake County (then part of Orange County), Florida • Euroamerican

Material
Primarily archival and historic research-no artifacts recovered

Site Name
8LA2780, Historic Ponceannah, 8LA2781

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Cemetery • Church / Religious Structure • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Historic settlement originally centered around sawmill • Milling Feature • Non-Domestic Structures • Settlements

Investigation Types
Historic Background Research • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Records Search / Inventory Checking

General
Historic Ponceannah, Keppler Disney, Elias Disney, Walt Disney, Roy Disney, Flora Call, Cassia

Temporal Keywords
Late 19th/Early 20th century

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1850 to 1930 (Approximate times for Town of Ponceannah)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -81.644; min lat: 28.944 ; max long: -81.604; max lat: 28.975 ;

Notes

General Note: Site warrants consideration for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and warrants much better interpretation by Seminole State Forest

File Information

  Name Size Creation Date Date Uploaded Access
Report-on-Historic-Ponceannah.pdf 3.20mb Sep 5, 2019 11:00:02 AM Public