The History of Florida
“Grant ( seated, left front) and a party of northern friends journey down Florida’s most picturesque river, the Ocklawaha, on the paddle steamer Osceola. Similar steamboats plied the St. Johns, Suwannee, and Apalachicola Rivers. One nervous passenger on the Ocklawaha recorded: “The hull of the steamer went bumping against one cypress-butt, then another, suggesting to the tyro in this kind of aquatic adventure that possibly he might be wrecked, and sub- jected, even if he escaped a watery grave, ...to a miserable death, through the agency of mosquitoes, buzzards, and huge alligators.”
270 · Jerrell H. Shofner the Civil War. But Hart also added a popular tourist attraction by opening up the Ocklawaha River to Silver Springs, which by 1873 was being visited by 50,000 tourists annual y.
Frederick DeBary, a Belgian wine merchant, also transported visitors up the St. Johns as far as Lake Monroe, where he built a hotel at the new community named for him. The Brock Line operated between Jacksonville and Enterprise on the northern shore of Lake Monroe.MoreLess
270 · Jerrell H. Shofner the Civil War. But Hart also added a popular tourist attraction by opening up the Ocklawaha River to Silver Springs, which by 1873 was being visited by 50,000 tourists annual y.
Frederick DeBary, a Belgian wine merchant, also transported visitors up the St. Johns as far as Lake Monroe, where he built a hotel at the new community named for him. The Brock Line operated between Jacksonville and Enterprise on the northern shore of Lake Monroe.MoreLess
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