- Hey guys.
It's the We are the Davises and today we are going
to be going to the Kingsley Plantation.
So, we're all really excited and we're on our way right now.
And if you didn't notice I just got back from my friend's
house so I have pink hair right now.
It's the first time dying my hair, so I excited.
We'll see you guys later.
Bye.
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- Hi everybody we are on our way into the
Fort Caroline National Monument and
- Monumont - Monumont
(giggling) and we are going to check it out
and see what's in here,
kind of history we have in North Florida.
Did Smelly Belly attack you?
- [Tyler] No Jelly Belly attacked her.
- A jelly bean attacked me
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- [Connie] It's pretty cool though.
Did you tell them how you did it?
- We got Kool Aid and then we mixed it with conditioner
and water and then we put it in our hair and then
- [Connie] So, turn around real quick, I wanna see it
- And then we put wrap around it so that it would stay
and we left it in overnight and then we look it out
in the morning and then she washed our hair
and then
- [Connie] Who washed your hair?
- Tara did.
She made us put our hair in the tub and she washed our
hair and then she blow dried our hair.
- [Connie] What is it?
- [Kayla] It's like a little doll, a little doll made
out of rock.
- [Tyler] Clay.
- [Connie] Aww.
- [Kayla] Clay effigy.
- [Connie] It's a voodoo doll.
- [Kayla] Yeah, it's not nice, it's an effigy.
Yeah, I learned what that was last lesson,
I learned in Social Studies.
- [Connie] Effigy?
- Yeah, it's not nice.
- [Connie] What is it, is it a voodoo doll?
- It's supposedly a life size doll of someone or something.
- [Connie] And what do they do to it?
- Well, when I was learning about something, like I didn't
learn about this room, but what we were learning about
the American Revolution and everything and they made
a life sized effigy and put it on a stick, and it was like
a tax person and then they lit it on fire.
- [Connie] Who?
Nevermind he's clay.
It says he is clay right there.
Maybe that is just his name?
- [Tyler] It's not his name.
- [Connie] How do you know?
- I don't know.
- [Connie] Maybe his name is Clay Effigy.
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- [Connie] All french.
(mumbling)
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- [Connie] The Spanish ran the French out, right?
- Yeah, I think that's what he said.
- Look at this, big pieces.
- [Connie] Oh.
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- So we're going to the fort, which is right over there.
So, let's go check it out.
- [Connie] Your hair, it looks cute.
- [Shawn] I like it too.
- I like it too.
We passed by Kool Aid so she said we should do Kool Aid
hair dye and then we looked up how to do it, so.
- [Connie] Dun dun dun.
- I don't want to go in there.
There's big spider on the ceiling.
- [Connie] There's a big spider in here?
Can you believe people used to live in these things?
- [Tyler] Yup, big spider.
- [Connie] Where do you see the spider?
- [Tyler] Big spider up there.
- [Connie] Where?
Where is they spider?
I don't see a spider.
- [Kayla] It's gotta be in there somewhere.
There's a giant web.
- [Connie] Let's see, AHH!
Just kidding.
- Did you get eaten by the spider?
- [Connie] I'm just looking in this little hut.
♫ Itsy bitsy spider
This is just like an old-fashioned teepee.
I mean, this is just like old-fashioned tent.
- [Kayla] Look, it's a flying worm.
- [Connie] Dun dun dun.
We're going to try to get to this fort over here.
- [Kayla] I see the fishies.
- [Connie] It's really windy right here so.
The fort. - [Shawn] Hey
- I'm not crazy.
- [Connie] Cray, cray, K.
Cray k, Cray k.
(mumbling)
- Got stuff in my shoes
- Watch where you want?
What are you like eight?
- [Connie] Here we are in the fort.
- [Kayla] Look at the big doors.
- [Connie] Look at these great big doors.
What's this door?
- [Kayla] Little tiny door.
- [Connie] What's that tiny door for?
- [Shawn] That's the Kayla door.
- [Connie] Is that for the little ones?
- [Kayla] Knock
- [Connie] Maybe it's like a peek-hole?
An old-fashioned peek-hole, they open it and go
"How who is there?"
- What do you want?
Go away.
Don't you see I have big doors for a reason, go.
- Hiding inside.
- [Tyler] Look what I found at the entrance.
(giggling)
- [Connie] Oh, you found a cannon?
- Not.
- [Kayla] Can this be our house?
- [Connie] I don't see where they light it.
- [Tyler] No, it's not used, it can't be.
- [Connie] Why?
- [Tyler] It's filled up.
- [Connie] It used to be used.
That's what it, there used to be a wick in there.
- [Tyler] Yeah, but you can't.
Nothing can get into it.
- [Shawn] Okay, so-- - [Kayla] I find this place.
- [Connie] Replica supposedly was here so maybe there was
more like an actual roof or something.
- [Kayla] They said it's 1/3 the size of what it actually
was.
- Not just any fence, this is a Fort Caroline fence.
- [Kayla] Can I climb the fence?
- [Shawn] Yes.
- [Connie] So this is like old school Spanish verses French
stuff going on here.
- Ariel, I'm Ariel.
I can't get up.
- Anyways, so yep, we're heading across the river here
and our car is on a boat and it's going to take us across
to see the oldest plantation in Florida.
Where are we going?
Oh my gosh, this is so freaky.
We just keep going deeper and deeper into the forest.
Jungle.
- [Shawn] The forest-y jungle.
Where the haunted head hunters are tracking us down
right now.
- [Connie] Oh my gosh.
- [Shawn] There's one up there with red evil eyes.
- [Connie] We're going into the forest.
So we are at the slave quarters and they build all these
little houses that are in like a circle.
It's not really a straight line.
- [Kayla] It's like a curve.
- [Connie] It's the beginning of the plantation and
they put all the houses along here like a wall almost.
- [Kayla] Can I climb on one?
- [Connie] Yeah, let's go look.
Let's go check it out.
- [Shawn] Why didn't you say something?
- [Connie] Look it, they are made out of sea shells.
- [Kayla] Can I climb on it, or no?
- [Connie] These little houses are made out of sea shells
can you see them?
- [Kayla] Yeah, it's like oysters.
Can I climb on it or no?
- [Connie] I wonder what else that they used.
Yeah, climb on it.
- [Shawn] I remember on one of them, I think it was
the fort that went into St Augustine, that they
were talking about they would take oyster shells
and they would mash them up and mix them with water
and it makes kind of a concrete kind of.
- [Kayla] And sand?
- [Shawn] What's that?
(mumbling)
- Just looking at the clay houses and there's a
butterfly.
(giggling)
- [Connie] I guess butterflies don't mind them.
I just think this is so interesting that they built
them out of these sea shells, oyster shells.
How come the inside?
Aw, there's the butterfly Tyler.
Aw, it's so pretty
- [Kayla] It was collecting nectar.
I saw its little tongue.
- [Connie] How do they make the inside so smooth, the walls?
- [Kayla] They probably used like sand and water.
- [Shawn] That looks like modern stucco,
I don't think that's.
- [Connie] Like they may have put it in there to
preserve them?
- [Shawn] Probably, yeah.
- Possibly.
Hmm, this is very interesting.
Yep, this is proof that there were fireplaces in the house
cause this one is still standing.
I wonder what happened to all the roofs.
The roofs must have been made out of some kind of tree
like the palms or something cause none of these have roofs,
but they have fireplaces.
- [Tyler] That's probably where they cook em.
- [Connie] This is like their bedroom.
This is like a fancier house, this must have been
like a
- [Kayla] Like one of the poetry people, the poets maybe,
I don't know.
(giggling)
- Well, they had like some slaves that watched over
other slaves.
They were in charge of them, and then those slaves
got the bigger houses and then the other slaves
got the smaller houses.
So, as we walk through here, some houses are bigger and
some are smaller.
- [Kayla] Does this talk about the, uh, I forgot what
they're called,
I like spaced out, the ones where they volunteered to
like be slaves for a little while so they could come
to America and then so like they, people brought them
as like sort of an enslaved person but they could get
out at any time they wanted?
But they were enslaved for like--
- I don't know, maybe.
I read this particular plantation actually started
fighting against slavery and they wanted to abolish it
a long time ago, like back when it was--
- [Kayla] So, why is it so big?
- Well, I guess it started off having it and then
the owner realized that he didn't want to have slaves
anymore so they started fighting against it, but it took
years and years for those laws obviously
to finally be overruled and change it,
and change history.
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Tyler's on top of the world.
That one with the roof is probably one of the main houses.
This guy, that was probably the leader that was in charge
of everybody.
All these buildings are 200 years old.
- [Kayla] How long do you think it took them to make all
of this?
- [Connie] I don't know.
We haven't read anything about that part yet.
- [Kayla] It was probably on the tour that we missed.
- [Connie] Yeah.
- [Kayla] Whoops.
- [Connie] Here is the main house.
Yeah, this is definitely.
Look at the size of that fireplace.
- [Kayla] There's like wasp nests in here.
- [Connie] Oh that's kinda freaky, yeah.
- [Shawn] And spiders that are jumping on my head.
I can feel it.
- [Connie] So, it must have been like a bedroom in here
and then
and then the main room in here.
- [Kayla] Are we just going to check out this one
or are we going to go?
- [Connie] So maybe all other houses did have roofs?
This is just the only one left that has a roof.
So, this is the construction, it says on here
200 years ago.
That's how they built it.
They poured all this into molds it looks like.
- [Kayla] Oyster shells, sand, and water.
- [Connie] Still doesn't show how all the roofs were,
but they must have been like this one house.
- [Shawn] Just like that one right there.
I saw a picture.
- [Kayla] They made this out of oyster.
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
- Bye guys.
It was fun.
See you later.
- Until next time, bye!
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