Tour of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings home Cross Creek

# Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings made her home in Cross Creek, Florida. This historic state park homestead has been preserved just as it was when she was living there in the 1930s. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived at Cross Creek for 25 years and wrote many of her award-winning literature pieces while living on the farm. Cost: $3.00 per person or a Fl State Park Pass

Marjorie was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author for The Yearling. She also wrote Cross Creek and many other books based on life in Florida during the early 1900s. Cross Creek details her life and people of the town. The Yearling is required reading for high schoolers in Florida. Her Florida farmhouse is just an hour and a half from Orlando. It is National Historic Landmark between Ocala and Gainesville in Alachua County. Before you visit Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s home, reading Cross Creek will set the mood. Her rich, descriptive words about life and nature in rural Florida are mesmerizing. Cross Creek is a true story, an autobiography of her life in the community.

Bring lunch and we will sit in the barn and enjoy old Fla.

Questions: Call or text 407-701-6475