Dudley Farm Historic State Park, Heritage farm park in Newberry, United States.
Dudley Farm Historic State Park covers about 325.6 acres in Newberry and holds 21 historic buildings and 13 structures, among them the family farmhouse, an 1880s kitchen outbuilding, a general store and post office, and a cane syrup complex, all with original furnishings and equipment. A trail near the visitor center leads to a segment of the unpaved Gainesville-Newberry Road.
The farm shows Florida agriculture from the late 1850s to the mid-1940s. After that, a few third-generation family members used it only for subsistence farming into the 1990s. Myrtle Dudley, the youngest and last of that generation, died in 1996 and left the site to the Florida Park Service. It joined the National Register of Historic Places on October 4, 2002, and became a National Historic Landmark in January 2021.
The farm keeps a registered herd of Cracker cattle and three Florida Cracker horses, along with chickens and turkeys of breeds common on late 19th and early 20th century U.S. farms. Living-history events, cane boils and corn grinding show the work of the property; the Friends of Dudley Farm help organize them.
The historic farm site is reached by a trail from the visitor center that leads to a segment of the original unpaved Gainesville-Newberry Road. The southern section holds visitor parking, the visitor center, a gift shop, old barns and a 0.3-mile nature walk through a Florida hammock. The visitor center began as a house built in Newberry in 1918.
The farm keeps a registered herd of Cracker cattle and three Florida Cracker horses, plus chickens and turkeys of breeds common on late 19th and early 20th century U.S. farms. Two large heritage Duncan grapefruit trees stand for the citrus boom that shaped north Florida between the 1840s and 1890s.
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