ORGT: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park Traditional Geocache
Hidden : 5/29/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Join the Operation Recreation GeoTour from Florida State Parks, now with two challenges! For the full tour, visit 20 caches and win the official Geocoin. The ORGT Kids GeoTour uses the same caches and has its own coin. Get all the details and start your adventure today!

Visitors to this old Florida homestead can walk back in time to 1930s farm life where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived and worked in the tiny community of Cross Creek. Her cracker style home and farm, where she wrote her Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Yearling and other wonderful works of fiction, has been restored and is preserved as it was when she lived here. The park is open every day and visitors may tour the house with a ranger in period costume from October through July on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 10 and 11 am and at 1, 2, 3, and 4 pm. Picnic facilities, a boat ramp to Orange Lake and a playground are located in the adjacent county park. Before you come, you might enjoy picking up a copy of one of Marjorie Rawlings books and use her words to travel back to frontier Florida – and then come see us at the park and explore her farmyard, grove, seasonal garden and trails. Her book about her life here, Cross Creek, will take you directly back to life on this land and in this community. If you have time, explore the rest of the farm, take a trail into the wooded area or join us on a guided tour of the home. We are an important part of your history. Marjorie Rawlings was honored as a First Floridian by Governor Charlie Crist in March 2009. The United States Postal Service released a commemorative stamp in 2008 honoring Rawlings and the literary arts. In 2007, the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings house and farm yard was designated as a National Historic Landmark, our nation’s highest historic recognition.

Follow the “Related Web Page” link to learn about park hours, fees and other recreational opportunities. Get the annual pass for unlimited entry for one year.

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