Guide to Florida Pioneer Sites : Exploring the Cracker Heritage.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (179 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Central Florida -- 1. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park, Cross Creek -- 2. Wood & -- Swink Store and Post Office, Evinston -- 3. Micanopy -- 4. Silver River State Park Cracker Village, Ocala -- 5. Pioneer Settlement for the Creative Arts, Barberville -- 6. Dudley Farm, Newberry -- 7. Osceola County Historical Society Pioneer Village, Kissimmee -- 8. Lake Kissimmee Cow Camp, Lake Wales -- 9. Pioneer Florida Museum and Village, Dade City -- 10. Homeland Heritage Park, Homeland -- Northeast -- 11. Florida Agricultural Museum, Palm Coast -- 12. Fort Christmas Historical Park, Fort Christmas -- Tampa Bay Region -- 13. Heritage Village, Largo -- 14. Cracker Country, State Fair Grounds, Tampa -- 15. Manatee Village, Bradenton -- 16. Crowley Museum and Nature Park, Sarasota -- Northwest -- 17. Forest Capital State Park Cracker Homestead, Perry -- 18. Tallahassee Museum, Tallahassee -- 19. Panhandle Pioneer Settlement, Blountstown -- Museums -- Bibliography -- Index.
This guidebook provides a tour of more than twenty of Florida's historic pioneer and cracker villages. With more than 50 photographs, it is an indispensable guide for tourists as well as for parents and teachers looking for a meaningful glimpse of the vanishing lifestyles of Florida's pioneers.