Dakin Family Picnic by Bettye Reagan

Dakin Family Picnic by Bettye Reagan

Dakin Family Picnic by Bettye Reagan

Georgetown (Fla.)

Painting--Florida

Art--Southern States

A painting by Bettye Reagan, a local artist in Central Florida, inspired by a photograph of the Dakin family in Georgetown, Florida. The family consisted of George W. B. Dakin and Anna Marie Olcott Dakin, along with their children: Florence Dakin, Leonard Dakin, Paul Dakin, and Jesse Messmore Dakin. The Dakins owned Racimo Plantation, an orange grove along the St. Johns River, in 1887. Within the next decade, Leonard Dakin developed the Racimo Plantation with 5,000 orange trees, 40 laborers, and a packinghouse. The grove was destroyed by a freeze in 1895.

Reagan, Bettye Jean Aulin

Original painting: Reagan, Bettye. Dakin Family Picnic. 1997: Private Collection of Bettye Reagan.

1997

1997

Reagan, Bettye Jean Aulin

Digital reproduction of original painting: Reagan, Bettye. Dakin Family Picnic. 1997.

Oviedo Historical Society Collection, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

"Dakin Family in Georgetown." RICHES of Central Florida. https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/items/show/6942.

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Georgetown, Florida

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Originally created by Bettye Reagan.

Copyright to this resource is held by Bettye Reagan and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Cepero, Laura

Private Collection of Bettye Reagan

"Florence Dakin picnicking with her parents at the Racimo Plantation - Georgetown Region, Florida." Florida Memory. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/27452.

"George Dakin and his son Leonard (in buggy) at the Racimo Plantation - Georgetown Region, Florida." Florida Memory. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/27460.

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