Cross Creek in Alachua County, Florida — The American South (South Atlantic)

Cross Creek

Beloved Home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

— Literary Landmarks Register —

Cross Creek Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, November 1, 2021

1. Cross Creek Marker

Inscription. Friends of Libraries U.S.A.
Literary Landmarks Register
Cross Creek
Beloved home of
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
From 1928 to 1953
Designated by the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Society and the Florida Center for the Book
on the occasion of her 100th birthday
August 8, 1996

Erected 1996 by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society; and Florida Center for the Book.

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Arts, Letters, Music • Settlements & Settlers • Women. In addition, it is included in the Literary Landmarks series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1928.

Location. 29° 28.831′ N, 82° 9.617′ W. Marker is in Cross Creek, Florida, in Alachua County. Marker can be reached from County Road 325 north of Southeast 190th Place, on the left when traveling north. Marker is mounted in an interpretive kiosk on the west side of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park parking lot. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 18700 South County Road 325, Hawthorne FL 32640, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 8 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House and Farmyard (within shouting distance of this marker); Kate Barnes Boat Ramp (about 300 feet

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away, measured in a direct line); Dr. Austin Cary (approx. 2.7 miles away); Evinston Community Store and Post Office / History of Evinston, Florida (approx. 3.9 miles away); Second Seminole War (approx. 6.8 miles away); Seminole Heritage in Micanopy (approx. 6.8 miles away); Battle of Micanopy (approx. 6.8 miles away); Stagecoach Stop (approx. 7.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Cross Creek.

Regarding Cross Creek. National Register of Historic Places #70000176.

Related markers. Click here for a list of markers that are related to this marker.

Also see . . .
1. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) was a well-known American writer of the 1930s and ‘40s who drew material for her stories from the rugged Alachua County region and, in particular, a small unincorporated community of Cross Creek, situated about 20 miles southeast of Gainesville. In 1939, her book, The Yearling, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A 1946 movie based on the book and starring Gregory Peck and Jane

Marker detail: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings<br>at her writing table image. Click for full size.

2. Marker detail: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
at her writing table

Wyman won two Academy Awards. (Submitted on November 1, 2021, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)

2. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings History and Legacy. In 1928 Marjorie bought a 72-acre orange grove near Cross Creek, Florida, and she and her husband moved there in November of that year. It was the place and people she encountered that inspired her greatest literary successes. Marjorie did much of her writing on her screened porch, working at her typewriter on a table constructed by Charles Rawlings. (Submitted on November 1, 2021, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)

3. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park. Visitors to this old Florida homestead can walk back in time to 1930s farm life when Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived and worked in the tiny community of Cross Creek. Her book about her life here, "Cross Creek," will take you directly back to life on this land and in this community. (Submitted on November 1, 2021, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)

Marker detail: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings with her pointer Moe in the Big Scrub image. Click for full size.

3. Marker detail: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings with her pointer Moe in the Big Scrub

Cross Creek Marker Kiosk image. Click for full size.

Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, November 1, 2021

4. Cross Creek Marker Kiosk

"Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time”
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Cross Creek (1941)

Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, November 1, 2021

5. Cross Creek Marker Kiosk

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Orange Grove & House image. Click for full size.

Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, November 1, 2021

6. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Orange Grove & House

(located about 150 yards north of marker)

Credits. This page was last revised on November 1, 2021. It was originally submitted on November 1, 2021, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 317 times since then and 22 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on November 1, 2021, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.