Historic Haile Homestead- Talking Walls

My daughter and I visited the Haile Homestead on Sunday, we had a great time.

The Haile Homestead was once the home of Thomas and Serena Hale who came to the Gainesville, Florida area in 1854 and established a large plantation called Kanapaha. The house is 6,200 square feet, plenty of house for their 15 children!

The Haile’s, even their guests, had a habit of writing on their walls; the oldest date was in 1859. There are 12,500 words all together. To see a video of the Haile Homestead see Haile Homestead Video Tour

Wordless Wednesday: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the 1930 Census

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is the Author of several books, one most of us are familiar with is The Yearling. I am reading her book Cross Creek, The author relates her experiences on a seventy-two acre orange grove in a small Florida village that she called home for thirteen years. In chapter 5 (pg 56) she writes about her experiences while she is traveling with her friend the census taker, in the back county sections of Alachua County Florida in 1930. Cross Creek chapter 5. The Census