Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-17
HAWTHORNE.
A Florida ParEdise-Its History.
aHeSIthfulness and PIcsuretque
SURROUNDINGS.

HAWTHORNE, ALACHUA Co, FLA, June IA
Editor Morning NelCs: AS other places
are being praised, 1 think it time to imi-
tate the example of the illustrious Roman
General, leave the plowshare. and come to the
rescue of my country. Hawthorne has i'm
proved great deal since came to Florida. In
July, 1877, this place was mere cipher We
had no railroad here, the nearest station being
twelve miles off. the Ocklawaha river over
fourteen; but now behold the change. Hith-
erto our products, such as sugar, syrup and
vegetables, would scarcely pay one to raise,
whereas now, by the facilities we have in rail
road transportation, the farmer can produce
many things which will remunerate him, be-
side cotton. corn, OATS rice, cane and rye, all
of which our country is capable Of producing.
AS the mighty tide of emigration has for a
long period been instrumental in peopi ing this
great continent, so has Florida been the recip-
lent of many favors, in having good land and
tropical fruit, to which she is indebted to the
"Giver of all Life.''
Hawthorne-named after Mr. James NJ. Haw-
thorne, native Georgian. and the owner of
fine place not very far off where one C an see
the banara and the orange, the peach and the
APPLE and partake of Southern hospitality-is
situated on the Peninsula Railroad from Waldo
TO Ocdla ana In6 EIOr1Qa southern from Hd-
latka to Ocala and Gainesville Our pOpula-
ton, suppose. is about two hundred inhabi
tantS, dwelling houses twenty or more. and
stores eight kept by the following enterpris-
Mr.. Calvin Waits, of Waits crossing, a part of
this town, Mr.. s. L Hawthorne, w. w. John
sons drug store, Messrs. Adkins Bros, Messrs.
Bullard & Stewart, Mr.. T. J McRae and Mr.. L.
Wertheim. The post office is admirably kept
by Mr.. James Bell, the owner of pretty grove
not far off. We expect to have a post
daV a ~.
and new church. Our first Mayor
was Professor Bailey. who is good teacher,
and cur present Mayor is Mr. Samuel Grimes
Hawthorne is on a pretty little lake. and is
farming country, all in the orange belt. What
we need here is hotel Give us that and our fu-
ture Is decided. Thenceforth let other places
in Florida yield us the palm. Why? Naturally
the settler Oesires to live where he can be
healthy. Can we prove this to btB a healthy
country and one in which an invalid can feel
free from all the ills that flesh is heir toS
answer yes have practced ia the State over
three and one half years, and have yet to find
a more healthy country than that by which we
are surrounded. L nave never seen case
OF diphtheria, scarlet fever or any of
the highly dangerous forms of eIuptive dis
eases indigenous to other climes. Our type of
disc 4se belongs to the bilious rRmittent order;
chill and fever is a rare thing here as is the
case with typho-malaria and congestive fever.
Our fevers. which appear for the most part in
summer, are OF q mild form, and easily con-
death more than fifty persons, men, women
and children, within the last five years With
in radius of ten miles we must have five
thousand people; so l consider the fatality to
be exceedingly small The summers, though
long, are not unbearable; cool nights and pleas
ant breezes take prominent part in making
Florida pleasant land, and our
fruit. such as the orange, lemon guava, lime,
the LIE Conte pear, Peento peach and s. raw
berry, will furnish to the inner man all that
heart can desire. Our groves-the McMeekin,
Monroe, McNabb. Thomas Hawthorne. + m EFT
Johnson, DIR. Johnson's. the Crumptons, Mr..
Wylly's and Others are beautiful enough to
satisfy the taste Of the most aesthetic. Our
lakes, Little Orange, Lochloosa and other
smaller ones, in which this county abounds,
upon which the sportsman will find the alli-
gator and duck, and around whose shores
nature in all her loveliness casts her smile, is
enough to have made the red man hate to
leave a scene SO lovely and yet so grand. Mag
nesia Springs is not far away, where one can
have a good bath and bask in the smiles of the
genial proprietor. DR.. Simmons. See Florida
and die. JOSEPH GAsToN BULLOCK, M. D.