Barbara Whalin Makant, Florida State Regent, Chapter Regent,Betty Cheatham
Bruce Piatek, Executive Director, Florida Agricultural Museum

Old Kings Highway Chapter dedicated an historical marker
 at the site of the Hewitt Sawmill and Dam on the property
 of the Florida Agricultural Museum on Oct. 28, 2010.

 

The marker reads:

  This Revolutionary War Period sawmill and dam, built circa 1770,
 supplied lumber to the surrounding area in the British Colony of
 East Florida and it's capital St. Augustine.  It is believed that the
 mill was destroyed during the Patriot War.  However, it's wooden
 floor still survives in the creek bottom.  The top of the earthen dam
 was once a bridge for Old Kings Road during the American Revolution.
 Construction on this dam began in 1765.  When completed,
it connected southern Georgia with the British settlement of New Smyrna, Florida.