Collins & Toomey receive Southeast Division DAR Historic Preservation Award

Press Release

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.

Regent Lucinda Glenn (C) presents Historic Preservation Award to Jane Phillips Collins (L)and Gloria Toomey (R).

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.