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Welcome to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park. Visitors to this old Florida homestead can walk back in time to 1930s farm life when Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived and worked in the tiny community of Cross Creek. Her cracker-style home and farm, where she wrote her Pulitzer prize-winning novel "The Yearling" and other wonderful works ...
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The park grounds are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily....
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Rawlings' historic Cracker farmhouse has her original...
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Sep 2021. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's homestead is where she lived for 25 years and wrote The Yearling and Cross Creek. Marjorie had an orange grove to supplement her income in the early years and employ area folks. Reading Cross Creek before visiting the park will bring her words to life.
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- When is Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park open?Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park is open:Sun - Sat 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
- What hotels are near Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park?Hotels near Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park: (0.41 mi) Yearling Cabins (0.40 mi) The Secret River Lodge (0.49 mi) Cross Creek Lodge Pa...
- What restaurants are near Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park?Restaurants near Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park: (0.42 mi) The Yearling Restaurant (4.05 mi) Antonio's Made in Italy (7.44 mi) Blue H...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park is a Florida State Park and historic site located on the former homestead of Pulitzer Prize-winning Florida author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953). A National Historic Landmark , it is located in Cross Creek, Florida , between Ocala and Gainesville at 18700 South County Road 325.
- September 29, 1970
- September 20, 2006
- circa 1890
Oct 1, 2021 · 18700 S CR 325. Hawthorne, Cross Creek, FL 32640. 352-466-3672. Website Get Directions. A National Historic Landmark, the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings house and grounds is nestled between a quiet country road and Lake Orange. The homestead is completely restored and preserved as it was in the 1930s including a barn, tenant house, orange grove ...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Park preserves the Cross Creek Farm where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Yearling, lived and worked 1928 - 1953. the historic house and farmyard are maintained much as when she lived there in the 1930s and is interpreted by costumed tour guides. The historic orange grove has many varieties of citrus including orange, grapefruit ...
- 18700 S. C.R. 325, Cross Creek, 32640, FL
- (352) 466-3672
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At Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park, docents in 1940s dress take you through the living and working space of this Pulitzer-winning novelist beloved by regional historians for her accurate depictions of rural North Florida.
History. The Rawlings park is preserved in memory of the times, life and work of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. She came to rural Cross Creek in 1928 to find a home closer to the land and a place to write. “I do not know how any one can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to,” she later wrote in "Cross Creek."
