...the Courthouse in Monticello is located 235 feet above sea level, one of the highest points in Florida.

 

…the building styles in Aylesbury Plantation will reflect the architecture of southern homes 75 to 165 years ago.

Sign up for more information and updates about Aylesbury Plantation or other great rural North Florida properties.

AYLESBURY’S PLANTATION NEIGHBORS

Lyndhurst Plantation

 

Lyndhurst Plantation was established by Col. William J. Bailey who built this Greek Revival Plantation home in the 1850s.  The old store and school house that were built to serve the surrounding community still stand today.  The site was originally settled by Aylesbury Shehee before he sold to Bailey in the 1840s.  The Lyndhurst house is one of three surviving pre-Civil War plantation homes in the county.  The house is located one mile southwest of Aylesbury Plantation.

 

Glendower Plantation

Glendower was founded in 1839 by John Finlayson, the son-in-law of Aylesbury Shehee.  At the time of his death in 1864, Finlayson’s estate had grown to 3,200 acres.  Most of that land is still owned and farmed today by Finlayson’s descendant. 

 

 

Finlayson planted this avenue of oaks in 1850.  The original plantation home burned in 1910.  The current Craftsman/Bungalow style home, typical of the period, was built on the original home site in 1920.  Aylesbury Plantation borders the Glendower land on the west.

 

Dixie Plantation

Dixie Plantation is a 9,200 acre conservation reserve whose southeast corner is about 1.5 miles north of Aylesbury Plantation.  The large former hunting plantation is a preserve for bobwhite quail habitat. 

 

 

Gerald Livingston assembled most of the Dixie Plantation land in the 1930s.  Livingston was a wealthy investor and financier who astutely sold his stock holdings shortly before the 1929 market crash.  He built the elegant Neoclassical Revival mansion in the early 1940s.