Traveling the back roads of Florida

18/03/2022

13/03/2022

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Alligators get bigger and smarter with age, and local guide Daniel Townsend had been pursuing this giant, old gator for years.

10/03/2022

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Florida has one of the only legal places to swim with manatees in North America. Come spend a day exploring Crystal River.

10/03/2022

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10/03/2022

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09/03/2022

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A day trip that will take you into an entirely new world.

09/03/2022

Village of Hudson First Settled by Alabama Family

By D. B. McKAY

This article apppeared in the Tampa Tribune on Oct. 18, 1953.

The village known as Hudson on the Gulf Coast of Pasco County is one of the most picturesque and naturally beautiful on the Gulf Coast Scenic Highway No. 19, and it also has an interesting history—it was frequently the landing place of Confederate blockade-runners when the Federal navy had all of the principal ports on our coast closed during the Civil War, and it was suspected that it was a rendezvous for rum-runners and smugglers during the prohibition era.

Because access was difficult except by water there was little interference with these illicit operations. Nearby Bayport, however, was better known as a port used during the Civil War by blockade-runners and subsequently by evaders of the law.

Among the earliest settlers were the pioneer Hudson family, who left Alabama in 1868 in a caravan of covered wagons.

The only road in that section at the time was what was known as the Old Salt Road, so called because during the Civil War people from the interior came to the coast at that point to make salt, as the Yankees had all other sources of supply closed. The process of distilling salt from Gulf water was used at many points along the coast. Some West Pasco residents obtained their salt from Salt Springs behind Gulf View Mall.

In 1881, the people of the area got together and built a log school house. In chilly weather the children would build a fire in the schoolyard, as the cracks between the logs let plenty of cold air into the little building.

There was no place to hold religious services, so a pulpit was built in the old school house and that was used. The first sermon was preached by old “Uncle” Alderman Wilson. Services were held thereafter by circuit riders.

John Paul was running a schooner from Bayport to Cedar Keys, and he was induced to make Hudson a port of call. The settlers sold their produce and bought their supplies in Cedar Keys, as that was the only port on the Gulf then having a railroad.

A few years after the arrival of the earliest families a small fish business was established by Bush, Lang, Frierson, Knowles, Stevenson and Brady families. Fish were abundant in the adjacent waters, and the catches were large. The average price of roe mullet was one cent each. People would come from as far as fifty miles to buy fish which they would split, salt and pack in barrels. The average family would haul home five barrels. With the improvement of transportation and facilities for ice storage in the early 1900s, the fishing industry became the main interest by the Carl Hatchers and Knowles families.

Saw this posted in another group and thought it should be shared here

14/01/2022

Dunedin Florida causeway Sunday funday

07/12/2021

Florida chickens 🐔

05/12/2021

This is a shame this beautiful Home will be Demolished soon but Rachel Sannuto and I went by there today and we were able to walk through the downstairs of pure Historic home

28/11/2021

Crystal River Florida today

18/11/2021

St Augustustine Beach ⛱ Florida last week

03/11/2021

Videos 📹 and photos of 301 in the middle of the state of Florida to Hawthorne Florida and st road 20 to st Augustustine Florida comeing next week on Rachel Sannuto and my honeymoon 😀 😍 😎

31/10/2021

Curlew hills memory gardens graveyard Clearwater Florida

07/09/2021

Sarasota Florida area

06/09/2021

Siesta key Florida tiny homes

31/08/2021

30/08/2021

St Petersburg Beach Florida

23/05/2021

Safety harbor Florida today

07/03/2021

Ft desoto state park in pinellas County Florida