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MARIANNA, FLORIDA _The Home of Florida Caverns_

Marianna is located in the northwest section of Florida, approximately twenty miles from both the Georgia and the Alabama state lines. The Gulf of Mexico lies forty-five miles to the south, the Apalachicola River fifteen miles to the east, and Port St. Joe only seventy miles southeast of Marianna. It is relatively easy to travel to the various population centers of the southeast because of Marianna’s centralized location.

Airline Service—The city is served by National Airlines, with three flights daily, with direct service to Mobile, New Orleans, and Jacksonville, and good connections to all major cities. Also available is charter service through local flying agencies.

Bus Service—Marianna is a terminal station for Greyhound and Trailway Bus Lines, and approximately 2,000 passengers daily are handled through this station. Thirty-six regular bus schedules serve the city each twenty-four hours. Lee’s Coach Lines, a Jackson County bus system, regularly serves surrounding communities.

Rail Transportation—Marianna is served by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and by the Marianna and Blountstown Railroad. The Atlanta and St. Andrews Railroad traverses Jackson County, serving Cottondale, nine miles west of Marianna, and gives direct connections from Panama City and the Gulf of Mexico to Atlanta and other points.

Hotels, Motels and Restaurants—Marianna is a first-class hotel and motel city, boasting three hotels, the largest of which has 125 rooms, as well as a number of outstanding modern, air-conditioned motels. A number of restaurants and dining rooms serve the traveling and working public. Also rating first-class are several tourist homes along U. S. Highway 90.

Highways—Marianna is served by U. S. Highway 90, and by State Highways 276, 73, 167, and 71. U. S. Highway 231 connects with U. S. 90 only a few miles outside Marianna. An excellent system of hard surfaced highways and roads serve the county.

For further or definite information write Marianna-Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, Marianna, Florida.

Scenic and Historic Florida _Year Around Attractions_

Whether you are a visitor or a resident, you will want to know more about Florida’s State Park System which preserves the tropic lure of primitive Florida and perpetuates memorials of Florida’s absorbing history.

This system of parks and historic memorials, in areas ranging from a few hundred to 26,000 acres, embraces more than 71,000 acres of the most wonderful land in Florida.

These parks in their varied appeals offer recreation possibilities extending from a few hours diversion to extended vacations.

STATE PARKS IN OPERATION (_Acreage shown in parentheses_)

Hugh Taylor Birch (180) Ft. Lauderdale Florida Caverns (1,131) Marianna Fort Clinch (1,086) Fernandina Gold Head Branch (1,338) Keystone Heights Highlands Hammock (3,800) Sebring Hillsborough River (2,777) Zephyrhills Little Talbot Island (2,500) Jacksonville Myakka River (26,747) Sarasota O’Leno (1,388) High Springs Killearn Gardens (306) Tallahassee

SCIENTIFIC AREA

John F. Rollins Bird and Plant Sanctuary (120) Ft. George Island

STATE PARKS PARTIALLY DEVELOPED

Fort Pickens (1,659) Pensacola Manatee Springs (1,381) Chiefland Collier-Seminole (6,423) Royal Palm Hammock Tomoka (712) Ormond Torreya (1,138) Rock Bluff

UNDEVELOPED STATE PARKS

Anastasia (852) St. Augustine DeSoto (216) Titusville Jonathan Dickinson (11,124) Hobe Sound Lake Griffin (726) Leesburg Pellicer Creek (729) St. Augustine Ribaut Refuge (139) Flagler Beach St. Andrews (1,000) Panama City Santa Rosa (1,339) Pensacola Suwannee River (1,831) Ellaville

HISTORIC MEMORIALS

Olustee Battlefield (5) Olustee Battle of Marianna Marianna Constitution Convention (12) Port St. Joe Dade Memorial Park (40) Bushnell Battle of Natural Bridge (6) Woodville Confederate Monument DeFuniak Springs Madira Bickel Mound (10) Terra Ceia Island Yellow Bluff (2) Jacksonville Gorrie State Park Apalachicola Bulow Ruins and Plantation (109) Bunnell Ormond Tomb (9.3) Korona Addison Blockhouse (5) Ormond Turtle Mound (10) Coronado Beach Historic Sugar Mill (17) New Smyrna Beach Green Mound (6) Wilbur-by-the-Sea Yulee Sugar Mill Homosassa Huguenot Historic Site (104) Jacksonville Gamble Mansion—Judah P. Benjamin Memorial (5) Ellenton

PARKWAY

Florida Overseas Parkway Monroe County (Internal Improvement Fund Lands)

VISIT _Florida_ STATE PARKS and HISTORIC MEMORIALS

Transcriber’s Notes

--Original publication information was retained, although this book is public-domain in the country of publication.

--Some obvious typos were silently corrected.

--Moved the information about other Florida state parks from the centerfold to the end of the text.

End of Project Gutenberg's Florida Caverns State Park, by Robert O. Vernon