Additional Information for Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park
Plant Life
The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park offers a variety of cultivated and natural plant life for viewing. The farmyard area has a variety of citrus including tangerines, grapefruit, oranges, lemons, and kumquats. A kitchen garden is planted in the fall and again in the spring with varieties of herbs, flowers, and vegetables to reflect Rawlings' writings, time, and place. Ornamentals, including the beautiful Angel Trumpets, surround Rawlings historic farmhouse and restoration is underway to recreate a historic sand yard around the tenant house.
Two loop trails into the surrounding woodland provide access to Rawlings natural world. The East Grove Trail across CR 325 from the farmhouse is a wide sand path through a second-growth woods which only 50 years ago was Rawlings' young orange grove. The grove is gone, replaced by oak, pine, palmetto, and magnolia. Behind the old house and chicken pens is the Jungle Hammock Trail. This narrow trail retraces the path through what was once the old grove and into the cypress Rawlings wrote about. When we have wet weather, a short stretch of fern forest springs up halfway back.
Wildlife
Resources
The most critical resources at the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park are the historic structures and objects. Many of the items and furniture in the house were hers; many others are original to the period. Our purpose is to preserve and restore these resources for the future and still find a way for the visitor to fully experience the place as it was lived in.
Pets
Please see our General Parks Pet Policy for more information.
Links
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