PAYNES CREEK STATE HISTORIC PARK
888 Lake Branch Road
Bowling Green, FL 33834
Photos by: Teresa and Amy McGowin
Site of the Kennedy-Darling Trading Post on Payne's Creek. The trading post was established in April 1849. On July 17, 1849 a small party of Seminole Indians attacked the trading post, killing Captain George Payne and Dempsey Whidden. William and Nancy (Whidden) McCullough were wounded but escaped with their infant daughter.
The granite monument was originally placed at this site in 1895. The monument was damaged by vandals and reset in concrete in 1929.
(Source: Informational marker placed near the monument.)
Last revised:
August 30, 2006.
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