1973 - Wadsworth built a permanent caretaker's home

1976 - Wadsworth built an estate home on an island south of the lodge. Now it is know as the Island House.

1981 - Angela Carpenter Wadsworth died.

1985 - Mr. Wadsworth died. A son, Lewis Wadsworth III of St. Augustine and Bunnell, a daughter Virginia E. Wadsworth of Boulder, Colorado, and his wife Sonia Martin Wadsworth, who now lives on twenty-five acres adjacent to the preserve, survived him.

Lewis Wadsworth's grandchildren, Lewis Wadsworth IV, who resides in Boston, and Brill Wadsworth Mulligan, who resides in Ocala, grew up on the Princess Place Estate in the family home still owned by their mother and stepfather, Donna and Paul Katz.

1988 - After Mr. Wadsworth's death, an acquisition effort by the county failed. Conway and Polly Kitteridge purchased the property.

1993 - County and state environmental funds allowed the county to purchase the first 435-acre parcel. This funding was the first grant of the Preservation 2000 funds.

1994 - Princess Place Preserve was formally dedicated by Governor Lawton Chiles in August.

1995 - An additional 1,000 acres wer added to the preserve with funding from St. Johns River Water Management District, Florida Communities Trust, and Flagler County Land Acquisition funds.

1999 - Flagler County was awarded a Special Category Historic Preservation Grant from the Florida Department of State for restoration and stabilization of the historic Princess Place Lodge. The renovation is complete and the lodge has been restored to its original grandeur.

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