AARC, let us not forget Marion county with DeSoto setting loose the dogs of war on the Ocali tribe they encountered on the Ocklawaha River, the several Seminole War forts, two Confederate forts and suppliers of pork, grits, sugar, and whiskey to the Confederacy by way of river blockade runners, the first cattle drives in the US of cracker cattle, the Union raid on Marshall Plantation and Holly's Grist Mill on March 10,1865, the escape route of CSA Sec of State Judah P Benjamin, CSA Sec of War John C Breckinridge, and Jefferson Davis' nephew and Zachery Taylor's grandson, CSA Captain John Taylor Wood of the CSS Tallahassee, the riverboat trade, and less we not mention the Tarzan movies and the Creature of the Black Lagoon filmed at Silver Springs, and those resus monkeys running wild along the river and the Ocala National Forest.
