If you haven't caught this guy, Charlie Carlson as he tours all of the unusual and cool places we have along FL's east coast and beyond. Check him out. Some places of interest as you plan your family FL get aways:
In Ormond Beach by Bullow State Park, the Haunt Oak or Fairchild Oak history has it that someone was hung or rather died under it, it's over 400 years old and 133 feet wide, one of the largest oaks in FL
In New Smyrna Beach, Old Fort Park, coquina ruined Spanish fort, 40 ft. by 80 ft., ruins believed to have been within a preexisting Indian Shell mound, legend has it could have been the location for Dr. Andrew Turnbull's mansion.
If you are up for a farther drive:
If your a FSU fan and headed to Tallahassee's Old City Cemetery, go see the "Witch Grave", legend has it a Witch names Bessie was laid to rest here in one of the most ornate and elaborate tombs
If your a UF fan and headed to Gainesville, just Northwest is the "Devil's Millhopper" a gigantic funnel shaped hole in the ground, many legends surround the hole from sinners being swallowed up by it to the real story from a geologist is that an ancient sink hold formed, one about 10 thousand years ago and the second about a thousand years ago.
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