In 1791, the King of Spain offered a 1,100-acre land grant to Francisco Pellicer. Henry Mason Cutting purchased the property in 1886 and renamed it Cherokee Grove. Built in 1887 in the Adirondack camp style with local materials including tabby block cladding, cedar and palm tree trunk posts, and pink coquina, the lodge was part of a complex that included servant’s quarters, a caretaker’s house, tennis courts, stables, a bathhouse, a pool house, and Florida’s first in-ground concrete swimming pool. The lodge became an entertainment center for many socially prominent Americans and New York families as well as European royalty. After Cutting died in 1892, his widow, Angela Mills Cutting, later married the exiled Russian prince Boris Scherbatoff, who changed the spelling of his name to Scherbatow because he feared for his life. After Prince Scherbatow died in 1949, the Princess used the lodge as her primary residence, and it became known as the Princess Estate. In 1954, Princess Scherbatow sold the property to Lewis and Angela Wadsworth, and Flagler County purchased it in 1993 as a preserve.