Johns County records, and the book by H.A. The information in this article is based on countless interviews with family elders, St. He has been helping his brother, Jim, do genealogical research over the past 20 years. The Kangaroo convenience store and the Smokin D BBQ exist in the field where so many family reunions were held.įred DuPont is a lifelong resident of St. Lenora and three of her daughters remained in the farm house until their passing. The roadhouse was used as an auction barn before it was sold to Drozd Atlantic. The restaurant is now Bob's Bait and Tackle, without the bean soup. Upon the death of Cornelius in 1947, the land was further divided amongst Lenora and her children. It became a place for travelers to gas-up, cold hunters to get a warm bowl of bean soup, and Saturday night dances. In the 1930s when this intersection was established, the family decided the gas stations, restaurants, and a road house were more profitable than farming. Because of those "donations", the government declared that intersection to be "DuPont Center." During the first half of the 1900s, it was the accepted custom of landowners to donate the right of way that the government wanted for highways, which Cornelius and Lenora did when the government wanted to widen U.S. The farm was on both sides of the Old Kings Highway that became the Old Dixie Highway when it was paved with bricks in 1916. It was there, with their 10 children, that they raised cattle and grew crops. They subsequently purchased another 120 acres for a total of 160 acres. It came into existence when Cornelius Dennis DuPont and his wife, Lenora Carter DuPont, purchased 40 acres of land in 1900. It is Abraham's grandson, Cornelius Dennis DuPont, to whom DuPont Center can be attributed.ĭuPont Center was originally a farm. Johns, Putnam and Flagler counties descend. Upon his death in 1858, his estate was divided amongst his children, from whom the majority of DuPonts in St. He was on the building committee for the Trinity Episcopal Church in 1830. Augustine and 1,000 acres of land in what is now Flagler County. When Abraham's wife, Jane Verdier Pepper DuPont, died in 1828, he moved back to St. When the First Indian War broke out in 1800 they returned to the Charleston area thus abandoning their land grants. Along with Josiah's young nephew, Abraham, they acquired Spanish land grants for many acres. Augustine area were Josiah and Anne DuPont and their children Gideon and Anne. Our branch of the family immigrated from France to England, circa 1680 and from England, to this country in 1699, and settled in the Charleston, S.C. Samuel's branch of the family, the Delaware DuPonts, immigrated from France to this country in 1799. However, you have to go back to 1538 to find that relationship. It is also true that the DuPonts living here at that time were related to him. Augustine surrendered to Union Navy Admiral Samuel F.