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Unit Name: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park
Acres: 99.02 Managing
Agency:
Description:
DRP
Current Management Plan
Approved:
Visitors to this Florida homestead can walk back in time to 1930s farm life, the period when
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived and worked in the tiny community of Cross Creek. She lived here
for 25 years, wrote her Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Yearling, came to love the land and the
people surrounding the tiny rural community. Her cracker-style home and farm has been restored
and preserved as it was when she lived here. The site was designated a National Historic Landmark
in 2006.
Accomplishments:
Resource Management
• Added a well and pump to facilitate irrigation system.
Visitor Services
• Modified guided tours to allow walk-through tours to accommodate larger groups and enhance
visitor access.
Capital Improvements
• Completed construction of two full-service volunteer camp sites.
• Installed several miles of fence and gates to new properties.
Other
• Initiated volunteer camper program, with volunteers assisting primarily in visitor services,
maintenance, and cultural resource maintenance.
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2008