Arriving in Florida in the late 1760s, wealthy Scottish physician Andrew Turnbull established the colony settlement of New Smyrna with the aim to cultivate cotton, hemp, indigo, and silk. As his first public act, Turnbull had the Old Stone Wharf built at the end of King's Highway as a point of import and export of goods to support the colony's plantations. Once the center of town, the Stone Wharf, built of native coquina rock, survived the Seminole Indian War and was still intact as late as the 1860s when, during the Civil War, it was the site of an engagement between Confederate and Union forces, and was shelled by Union gunboats. At low tide, visitors can still see the remains of the wharf and highway from Clinch Street, as well as a commemorative plaque placed at the site.
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