The Greek Revival style farmhouse was possibly built c. 1836 for Burwell Miles McBride shortly after he moved to Territorial Florida from South Carolina.

May was one of the wealthiest planters in North Florida, at one time owning more than 3,000 acres of land in Jefferson County alone.

[4] The home have been may have built in the late 1840's by the enslaved people on Margaret "Martha" (Murray) May's 1,000 acre plantation.

[5] The house and surrounding property were divided out from the rest of the plantation sometime in the 1900s and is currently under private ownership.

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