Wednesday, February 12, 2025 (continued)
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| Mandarin Museum (2004) |
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Harriet's Veranda exhibit highlights the
contributions of Harriet Beecher Stowe,
author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, who spent
summers in Mandarin 1867-1884 |
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The book Palmetto Leaves (1872) is a
compilation of her stories about Mandarin
that were published in periodicals |
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A display of the window (1916) commissioned
from Louis Comfort Tiffany dedicated to
Harriet and Calvin Stowe at the Church of
our Saviour in Mandarin, which was
destroyed by 1964 Hurricane Dora |
Harriet Beecher Stowe helped found and raise funds for the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour; she operated an orange grove and shipped her produce to northern markets; and in 1869 she worked with the Freedmen’s Bureau to establish a school for Black children in the community, providing the land and hiring the first teacher.
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Model (2023) of the life-size statue group,
Harriet Beecher Stowe in Mandarin |
Evolution in Clay: Vina Schemer:
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| Butter dishes |
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| Scarabs (1986); experimenting with glazes |
The
Maple Leaf Shipwreck:
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A replica of the mine used by the Confederates to sink the
Union Army steamboat Maple Leaf in the St Johns River;
four freed African-American crew died in the explosion |
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| Model (1999-2003, by Douglas Carlton) of the Maple Leaf |
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| The bow of the Maple Leaf that was recovered in the 1980s |
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Artifacts from the Maple Leaf, including fragments of the
November 18, 1863 issue of the New York Times |
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| More artifacts related to military issue |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe in Mandarin
(2024, by Brenda Councill) |
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| Tamiko sits with her supposed ancestor (KSS) |
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St Joseph’s Mission Schoolhouse for African-American
Children (1898); among those few committed to teaching
Black children in post-war Florida were the Sisters of
St Joseph, members of a Roman Catholic
religious order from Le Puy, France |
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| Harriet's Garden |
Walter Jones Historical Park:
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| Losco Winery (1892) made wine from scuppernong grapes |
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| A boardwalk overlooks the St Johns River (KSS) |
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Farmhouse (c 1875) was built by Major William Webb,
a Union soldier who relocated here to run an orange grove |
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| Kitchen garden |
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The original kitchen was separate rom the farmhouse,
which eventually belonged to Walter Jones and his family |
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| This building may have been for servants' quarters or storage |
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| Chicken house and run |
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| Perhaps part of the Wheeler Sawmill from the 1950s |
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| Webb barn (1876 |
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| Artistic view (!) of the 1876 barn |
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