For the island in James Bay, Canada, see Chisasibi.
Fort George Island Historical Marker
Fort George Island Historical Marker (reverse)
Tabby ruins of uncompleted building built by Charles Thompson in 1854, Fort George Island
Fort George Island shell mound, 1870
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. was a plantation owner, born in England, who moved as a child with his family to South Carolina, and became a planter, slave trader, and merchant. He built four plantations in the Spanish colony of Florida near what is now Jacksonville, Florida. He served on the Florida Territorial Council after Florida was acquired by the United States in 1821. Kingsley Plantation, which he owned and where he lived for 25 years, has been preserved as part of the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, run by the United States National Park Service. Finding his large and complicated family progressively more insecure in Florida, he moved them to a vanished plantation, Mayorasgo de Koka, in what was then Haiti but soon became part of the Dominican Republic.
Ad for Zepheniah Kingsley Sr.'s store, Charleston, S.C., 1772
Main house, Kingsley Plantation
Maam Anna's apartments, now restored by the National Park Service, were above the kitchens. The rear of the main house is in the background.