Yulee Railroad Days
The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park
Was On Board for the 2007 Celebration of Yulee Railroad Days
May 30 - June 3, 2007
The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park accepted the invitation to join other historic sites in Alachua County in celebrating our railroad heritage during Yulee Railroad Days from May 30 to June 3, 2007. Our exhibit at the Rawlings barn featured artifacts such as tall wooden grove ladders, orange crates, canvas picking bags, and other objects related to citrus harvesting in the 1920s through the 1950s.
Once the oranges were picked and packed into field crates, they were sent to nearby packing houses that were built next to the railroad tracks. Without the railroad to take fruit to market, growers such as Charles and Marjorie Rawlings would not have been able to earn a living. The exhibit, prepared by the Friends of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Farm with the help of a grant from the Alachua County Tourist and Convention Bureau, graphically displays the variety of packing houses and railroad freight trains that Marjorie Rawlings would have become familiar with as she harvested her "Golden Apples."
The exhibit will be featured next year as well, when the 2008 Yulee Railroad Days is celebrated throughout north central Florida.
For more information, visit http://www.yuleerailroaddays.org/.
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Old Barn was the Center of Grove Activity |
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