Cross Creek ..

Less than 30 miles southeast of Gainesville is the

small community of Cross Creek. A place of citrus groves,

fish camps and gator infested swampland.

Aptly named for the creek that unites two lakes.

Orange Lake and Lochloosa Lake.
During the 60's and 70's , the Yearling Restaurant
was a very special place to dine.
It still serves Cracker style food.. a local musician
( a one man band ) usually sets up in the larger
dining area and performs on weekends.
In my opinion the food and ambience is not
like it was in its heyday... but what is ...

The most notable feature of Cross Creek today..

unless you are there for fishing is the Cracker Style

home and farm of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

This was home to her from 1928 until her death

( cerebral hemorrhage) in 1953.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ending to her memoir CROSS CREEK.

“It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its seasonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers and not masters. 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.”