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Gamble Plantation
Major Robert Gamble, Jr., a bachelor, homesteaded 160 acres along the southwest coast at Ellenton, Florida, just inland from the Little Manatee River. He used slave labor to build a two-story, ten-room mansion over a six-year period. Begun in 1843, the Gamble mansion took six years to complete. Although Gamble used the acreage to start
Lisa Browder 