On the Lake County bank of the St. Johns, across from DeLand, a steamboat landing called Crow's Bluff once had a general store, a post office, and the only ferry for miles. Today, the name only survives as a short country road.
Volusia County
Crow’s Bluff: The Ghost Town That Leaped the River
Mayaca-Jororo, the native people of Orlando
If you ask most residents who lived in Central Florida when the Spanish arrived, they’d probably tell you the Seminoles. However, the Seminoles didn't even exist when the Spanish arrived. Instead, they were bands of refugees fleeing to Florida long...
Visit to Lake Harney’s Mansfield Island in 1891
In January 1891, photojournalist Clarence Bloomfield Moore traveled down the St. Johns River with a small crew. It had become an annual tradition since he first journeyed deep into the Florida wilderness in 1879. Moore was a Harvard-educated archeologist from...