Historic Haile Homestead at Kanapaha Plantation
8500 Archer Road
Gainesville, FL 32608
Phone: 352-336-9096
Historic Haile Homestead at Kanapaha Plantation
Welcome to the Historic Haile Homestead at Kanapaha Plantation. In 1854 Thomas Evans and Serena Chestnut Haile moved their family from Camden, South Carolina to Gainesville, Florida. It is there they established a 1500-acre Sea Island cotton plantation they named Kanapaha. Completed in 1856 by enslaved craftsmen, the 6,200 square foot homestead stands today as one of the few remaining antebellum homes in North Central Florida. The Historic Haile Homestead is unique in the nation for its “Talking Walls.” For a reason lost to time, the Haile family wrote on the walls of their home – over 12,500 words in almost every room and closet. Come visit them this weekend and see this gem of history, frozen in time-let the walls speak to you of joys and sorrows of more than a century ago.
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