Exploring The Bongoland Ruins

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Today we explore the old bongo land ruins!
The Bongoland Ruins are part of the Dunlawton Sugar Mill Gardens. The area is completely free and open to the public. They are open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except for Christmas and New Year's Day. This place is now Sugar Mill Gardens, plantation ruins of an old sugar mill surrounded by 12 acres of flowering trees, holly magnolia, and other native flora. But from 1948 to 1952 it was Bongoland, a theme park with a miniature train, a replica Seminole village, and "prehistoric monsters" made by cement worker M.D. "Manny" Lawrence, out of concrete and chicken wire.

Four of the monsters survive and are now protected as relics of Florida's heritage. Their paint is long gone, their bodies are darkened with grime and mold and covered with moss and spider webs. The Triceratops, 25 feet long, isn't a bad reproduction, but the 42-foot-tall T-Rex was awful (It collapsed into rubble during a rainstorm in July 2019). Evidently more of these creatures were in the park, and one wonders what other marvels wrought by Manny have been lost forever.

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