DREW MANSION SITE
House Ruins — Ellaville, Madison County County, Florida
Status: Demolished · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/drew-mansion-site-ellaville-florida/

Site of Governor George F. Drew's fire-destroyed home.

Drew Mansion site is a ruined house in Ellaville, Florida. Site of Governor George F. Drew's fire-destroyed home. It sits in the archive under ruins and dark history. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. Demolished — only the file and the location survive. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.

The house at the center of Ellaville was built in the late 1860s by George Franklin Drew — the lumberman whose mill made the town, and later Florida's governor from 1877 to 1881. His mansion on the Suwannee was the kind of structure a company town was supposed to have overlooking it: the owner's seat, the landmark that told the settlement who it belonged to and how well it was doing.
It outlasted the town it watched. The sawmill economy collapsed after the turn of the century and Ellaville drained away — the post office closed in 1942 — but the mansion stood empty on the riverbank for another three decades until fire destroyed it in 1970. What is left is a Florida historical marker and a ruin site; the file's research note is careful with the geography, recording that the actual house site lies roughly half a mile northwest of the marker rather than beneath it.
The archive keeps the site as the anchor of Ellaville's documented story: a governor's house, a sawmill town, a river, and a fire — the whole sequence on the record.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The mansion was built in the late 1860s and later housed Florida governor George F. Drew. Fire destroyed it in 1970. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Drew Mansion Site and the Town of Ellaville' documents the entry. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Drew Mansion Site and the Town of Ellaville — Florida Division of Historical Resources
  https://markers.flheritage.com/home/details/459

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