April 17, 2024
1870's FLORIDA pioneers in CAMP@Lake Monroe/Mellonville
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Very rare c.1878-1884 albumen stereoview hand titled in period ink,"Our camp on the beach of Lake Monroe near Mellonville .Debogory".We can see three men in camp with Sharps carbines near at hand and the American flag flying above their tent.The early American history of what is now Seminole County in Florida started first with military activity and its concomitant exploration of the interior. Then came homesteaders whose early agricultural pursuits engendered development of the first steamboats and then railroads. Eventually intensive agribusiness developed, followed by early urban development.Military history began in 1837 on the shore of Lake Monroe. During the three-hour attack by Seminole Indians on February 8 against a U.S. Army camp, Captain Charles Mellon was killed. Tafter Camp Monroe was named Fort Mellon, and the surrounding village became known as Mellonville. In 1842 a group of 160 men and women of all ages and occupations landed at Fort Mellon to take possession of the fine lands bordering Lake Jesup. They called their settlement Camp Defiance, but when the government reversed its land policy, soon all but a few left the area. Those who remained became some of the early Seminole County pioneers.While the Camp Defiance colony mainly dissolved, a small community called Mellonville was growing in the shadows of Fort Mellon.
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