William Bartram and the Ghost Plantations of British East Florida

161 Pages·2010·16.281 MB·English

by  Daniel L. Schafer

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Intr~~n~ti~n
The Bartram Scenic Highway, known popularly as the Bartram Trail
in honor of the naturalist William Bartram, is a forty-mile segment of
northeast Florida's State Road 13 that runs south from Julington Creek to
the town of Spuds, where it meets State Road 207. For much of its route
the Bartram Scenic Highway is a two-lane road that parallels the east
ern shore of the St. Johns River as it wanders through western St. Johns
County. Until the late 1980s the area was a sparsely settled rural coun
tryside known more for its large cypress, pine, and live oak trees than
for residential neighborhoods. That situation is changing rapidly. Addi
tional lanes are being added to the northern stretch of the highway, and
housing developments, golf courses, schools, retirement communities,
and shopping centers are replacing the trees. Each morning, commuters
travel north toward Jacksonville wrapped in cocoons of steel and plastic,
stopping often in the heavy traffic. With car engines idling and radios and
cell phones chattering while they wait for the next green light, commuters
seldom see beyond their windshields to the red bay, cedar, cypress, and
live oak trees whose more majestic predecessors inspired awe and reverie
in William Bartram in 1765-66 and 1774.
Given the trends of the past two decades, subdivisions will continue to
expand to the south in pace with the increasing population of northeast
Florida. For now, however, the lower thirty miles are still sparsely popu-
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