a return to Cross Creek ......... 2013

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the Florida backwoods homestead bought

by  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings in July 1928

for $7.400 cash and a $2,000 mortgage.

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the house is typical of late 19th century 

Florida 'cracker'  farmhouse style.

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the house was a combination of three buildings..

living, dining and sleeping ..

electricity and indoor plumbing added 

during remodeling after purchase

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the grounds ( 74 acre grove ) , a tenant house

and barn with an assortment of chickens and ducks

comprise the homestead.

Marjorie Kinnan  Rawlings  House 2013 

the barn is a  1994 replica

of the original

tenant house

( Will Mickens House )