Category Archives: Florida History
Crowley Museum and Nature Center – Where Southwest Florida History and Nature Meet!
We had fun at the Crowley Museum and Nature Center – Heritage Festival on Saturday!
“Where Southwest Florida History and Nature Meet” is the motto and it is indeed a perfect blend of both. Take a stroll back in time as you visit the Museum and General Store filled with furniture and artifacts of the Crowley Family dating back… to the Pioneer Days. The General Store is a complete replica of the Original Miakka general store with tools, glassware, and even a paper cut-out of a Grumpy Clerk to give it that old time feel. Continue reading
Immerse yourself in history! Take a short stroll through the Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins State Park
One of the staples of Historic Homosassa Springs and one of my favorite places to take me back in time is the Yulee Sugar Mill.
Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins State Park is one of the most intact historic sugar mills in the state Florida and sits right on SR 490 just outside the historic downtown city of Homosassa Springs. The park offers a small interpretive walk that explains each stage of milling sugar cane into sugar as well as the history of the site. There is a huge Chimney that lies only a few feet from the edge of SR 490 Continue reading
Exploring Florida’s Botanical Wonders: A Guide to the most Spectacular Botanical Sights in the state!
The audience was captivated by the pictures of the wondrous flowers in the presentation as Sandy took us on a journey from the western most edge of the panhandle, down the Florida Peninsula, into the wilds of the Everglades, and then out to the Florida Keys. The diversity of flora in Florida is only surpassed by California and Hawaii in the fifty states. Continue reading
James E Grey Preserve, New Port Richey’s Best Kept Secret
James E Grey preserve is not easy to find but worth the hunt! …..Once you follow this drive the 80 acre preserve encompassing the Pithlachascotee (Cotee) River is an oasis of old Florida Wilderness in the middle of suburban Pasco County. Continue reading
"Totch" – A Life in the Everglades
AnĂșncio OnlineHotel Loren “Totch” G. Brown. His father was a skilled fisherman, hunter and gatherer. Totch learned to live off the sea and the land and survival was second nature to him. Totch’s family lived off the land for many … Continue reading











