Individual Visitors:
Tours are offered October through July, every Thursday through Sunday at 10am, 11am and 1, 2, 3, and 4pm; except for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Group Tours:
A. Marjorie Rawlings’ Life and Times
B. Literary Tour
C. African American History
Area Historic Highlights:
The adjacent county park, which has a boat ramp, playground and picnic facilities, is the site where MKR kept her milk cow. Both historic Evinston and Micanopy are on the scenic highway route from Gainesville to Cross Creek, along with Paynes Prairie State Preserve.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Historic State Park
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This park preserves the old Cross Creek farm where Pulitzer-Prize winning author, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, lived and wrote, creating universal stories from the lives and landscapes of backwoods Florida. Her works include The Yearling and Cross Creek. The park includes a historic farm, barn, tenant house, farmyard, grove, garden, woods, and trails. The park is open every day from 9am to 5pm, with guided walks offered periodically.
Don’t Miss — Historic home and farmyard, garden, grove, chickens and ducks, two fifteen-minute walking trails
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18700 S. CR 325
Cross Creek, FL 32640
(352) 466-3672
MKR@gvlhistorichomes.org
www.Floridastateparks.org/marjoriekinnanrawlings