BlockBefore
Photograph of Glen Saint Mary Nurseries Company
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Glen Saint Mary Nurseries Company

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1917.

From the record

“The Glen Saint Mary Nurseries Company is a historic site in Glen St. Mary, Florida, located at 7703 Glen Nursery Road.”

Wikipedia article Glen Saint Mary Nurseries Company, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Baker County · listed in 2003 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 7703 Glen Nursery Rd., Glen St. Mary, 32040
  • When was it listed? November 2003
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Sanderson
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 03001111 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1917 to 1954

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 37 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Glen Saint Mary Nurseries Company, surveyed 1954
Topographic sheet covering Glen Saint Mary Nurseries Company, surveyed 1917

Fires near this property

366 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 366 fires within 5 miles of Glen Saint Mary Nurseries Company between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,897 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 28 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use122
Debris and open burning65
Natural40
Railroad operations and maintenance40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism28
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNOEL RD(02)
4 September 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service05-02-NOV/COW FIRE-1339
28 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1997Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceRAY GIVENS (02)
7 August 2013Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSMOKEY ROAD
31 August 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePALMETTO PL (02)
26 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCOW PEN ROAD (02)

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 1,397 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,397 specimens collected within 10 miles of Glen Saint Mary Nurseries Company between 1887 and 1975: 1,207 Animalia, 121 Plantae, 66 Fungi, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A H Curtiss, A. H. Antonie, A. H. Curtiss and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of SphaerostilbeSphaerostilbe1906E.M. BergerMacclenny
Specimen of Coleosporium vernoniae Berk. & Curt.Coleosporium vernoniae Berk. & Curt.1909W.T. SwingleGlen St. Mary
Specimen of Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863Bombus impatiens Cresson, 18631914H. HumeGlen Saint Mary
Eriocaulon compressum Lam.1887Miss H.M. Heading
Leucothoe axillaris (Lam.) D.Don1887Miss H.M. Heading
Pinguicula caerulea Walter1887H.M.H.Macclenny
A photograph of the species Osmunda regalis, not of this specimenOsmunda regalis L.1890Alice J. HeadingMacclenny.<br/>
Ludwigia linearis Walter1897A. H. CurtissMcClenny.
Schizachyrium tenerum Nees1897A. H. CurtissMcClenny.
Scleria distans Poir.1897A. H. CurtissNear Maclenny, Fla.
Woodwardia angustifolia Sm.1897A. H. CurtissMcClenny.
Rorippa teres (Michx.) Stuckey1899L. H. LighthipeLow grounds, Glen St. Mary.

All 1,397 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Old Baker County Courthouse3.6 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03001111 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Baker CountyAll 4 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.