Press Release
Amelia Island Chapter DAR
Submitted by Cara Curtin
November 15, 2016 11:00 a.m.
Amelia Island Chapter Regent Lucinda Glenn presents the NSDAR
Historic Preservation Committee Award for the Southeastern Division. Jane
Philips Collins stands to the left and Gloria Toomey to the right in the
photo.
The Amelia Island Chapter, with Mrs. Collins and Mrs. Toomey in
the lead, provides perpetual care for the Vaughan-Scott Cemetery on First
Coast Highway on Amelia Island.
John Daniel Vaughan was a Revolutionary War veteran who settled
in the area after the war. His pension was 200 acres on the island, which
grew into Mt. Hope, a cotton plantation. Vaughan descendants married into
the Scott family, and both families are represented in the cemetery on what
is left of plantation land.