Named for a Confederate senator. It doesn't come more down home than Baker County. It even has a place named Possum Trot.
Baker County is the smallest of the counties surrounding metropolitan Jacksonville.
Some think it is North Florida's best-kept secret. City folks from Jacksonville regularly traipse to Baker to take up residence in their own little bit of country, where sun-up comes early and twilight lingers long. The county began as a farming area with cotton and corn as the main crops. When the boll weevil destroyed the cotton crop years and years ago, corn became the main crop and was said to be most frequently marketed in jugs and bottles. For a time Baker County was said to be the moonshine capital of America, perhaps a spurious title but hardly abjured by the natives.