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City of Hawkinsville was a paddle steamer constructed in Georgia in 1886. Sold in 1900 to a Tampa, Florida company, it delivered cargo and lumber along the Suwannee River. Eventually rendered obsolete by the advent of railroads in the region, it was abandoned in the middle of the Suwannee in 1922.
Fowler's Bluff is an unincorporated community in Levy County, Florida, United States. It is a small, riverside central Florida community near the southern end of the Suwannee River. [1] The nearest significant city is Chiefland, approximately 15 miles to the northeast. The community provides river access via a public boat ramp located at 15597 ...
Big Shoals State Park in Hamilton County, Florida, [1] is a Florida State Park. It is approximately one mile (1.6 km) east of White Springs, off US 41. The park is situated on the Suwannee River and features limestone bluffs as well as the biggest whitewater rapids in all of Florida. The park also features more than 28 miles (45 km) of hiking ...
White Springs is a town in North Florida, United States, on the Suwannee River. It was developed as a tourist attraction for its mineral spring water baths. The population was 740 at the 2020 census. Home of the annual Florida Folk Festival, it is a tourist destination noted for historic charm, antique shops, and river recreation.
Suwannee Saw and Planing Mills, Ellaville, Florida, July 1884 Men camping in a deserted pool in Ellaville in 1949. Ellaville, Florida is a ghost town in Florida located in the Suwannee River State Park in Suwannee County, Florida, United States. Ellaville was located at the merging place of the Suwannee River and Withlacoochee River.
The Suwannee River is a diverse and rich ecological space, hosting varied aquatic and wetland habitats. It is home to a large number of temperate and subtropical species, including unique and endangered ones. [18] The Suwannee alligator snapping turtle, described scientifically only in 2014, [19] is endemic to the Suwannee river basin.
It was a gift of Florida's Stephen Foster Memorial Association, who intended to place it at a new Foster memorial building in White Springs after the fair. [ 3 ] The installation in at the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park didn't occur until the summer of 1958; by which the bell count had increased to 97.
Fanning Springs is a city in Gilchrist and Levy counties in the U.S. state of Florida. It is part of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The population was 1,182 at the 2020 census, up from 764 at the 2010 census.