Pioneer Village From A Distance - Exploring Shingle Creek / Revisiting Pivotal Location From My Past
A visit to Pioneer Village at Shingle Creek in Kissimmee Florida . Although temporarily closed the trails and paths nearby are currently open to the public .
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today's adventure begins the starting
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point of what I will be finding and
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roaming around through is at 2:49 1 Babb
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Road in Kissimmee Florida the site of
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the Pioneer Village at Shingle Creek
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where you can do hiking biking paddling
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trails and a picnic area and that's not
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all now normally this is opened the
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civil section of history these old-timey
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buildings and facades from this neck of
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the woods
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however today it might not be welcome
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everyone Adam so we'll hear my thoughts
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were correct closed until further notice
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however there are plenty of paths to
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walk around this section and just kind
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of look over the fences and just read
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the placards a little historical
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information as I try to stay away from
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crowds congregations of people but also
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take in some fresh air and stay active
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I'm inviting you to join me shall you
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nice little train stations set up over
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there and water tower and it states
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pioneer village on on the side zoom out
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just a little bit the information I was
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referring to are written here for
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example the Yates Ford's in the 1880s
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and before when settlements in Osceola
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County were just beginning there were
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few roads as such mainly wagon trails
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and no bridges over Shingle Creek you
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can get a pretty good vibe and ambiance
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from these old structures takes one back
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this map gives a kind of a general
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overview of the layout of the land back
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then
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there is a a mail route designated here
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you can see some of the lakes and other
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other objects in there as well date
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stamp says 1915 this workshop if you
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look to the left of the screen under
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that cover out of the elements little
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pickup truck or tractor of some sort
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also that same year an equipment storage
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shed funding for the acquisition of the
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site was provided by the Florida the
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community's trust and while it is open
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to the public to wander around due to oh
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goodness the fenced off portion where
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the historical buildings are State is
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just a small percentage of the area you
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can see here just how vast it us and
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we're used to seeing a lot of dispensers
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you put your hands under lately but this
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is for sunscreen I think I've ever seen
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a sunscreen dispenser before that's a
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new one the US flag the state flag as
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well as the county up there waving in
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the breeze Sun glimmering down really is
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a beautiful day
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a beautiful warm day a better look at
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that vehicle that's sitting here
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it almost looks as if it's on tracks
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like it would go on a I think the wheels
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just been removed
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yeah the back wheel is there the front
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wheel at least the wood portion of the
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wheels gone pole bar and also from 1915
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you can see the parking lot only about a
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dozen cars or so people who have parked
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and doing a little hiking out about me
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that's a fantastic tree something very
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nostalgic and gives you the proper feels
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by seeing a church steeple like this you
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know what from way back in the day good
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old days can see john-boy walking by
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blacksmith shop all sealed up no sign of
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the blacksmith
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if you'd like to sit on a skunk these
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are available the skunk on the far end
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and this is a squirrel a very giving
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squirrel is holding an acorn almost like
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saying take this acorn you know you want
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it that's just my interpreter
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there my interpretation of his voice
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some remnants have been unearthed that's
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a dinosaur there
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and some prehistoric footprints and
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bones 0.06 miles I was gonna say that's
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a little over half a mile 0.06 that's
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not half a little over half a mile
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that's half of 1/10 of a mile guess
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they're referring to this little stretch
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here the limbs are touching the ground
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and protruding upward have to look from
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afar
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at any moment a wagon horse and wagon
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buggy could cruise by it wouldn't
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surprise me a little over seven years
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ago I stood at this spot
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so seeing this overturned root system
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brings back some memories
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now that was before the Pioneer Village
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you see off in the distance was moved
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from across highway 192 to this current
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spot it now resides that this was a lot
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more desolate than it is now and looking
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at this tree it makes me realize how
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certain things that you do when you're
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younger and the way you react to them
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you wish you could have a redo sometimes
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you just wish you could talk to your
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younger self and say the heck were you
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doing calm down a bit calm down
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younger Adam it'll all be fine and it is
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everything's good
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this particular section is a habitat
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restoration area
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do not walk over into there so peaceful
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out here
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this is a great idea from keeping
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certain animals from getting the birds
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food for example if a squirrel was to
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come along and the bird had its food up
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in the house there the squirrel could
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simply just climb up or other animals
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but squirrels the first thing that comes
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in my mind would climb up stick its paws
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down in there and dig the food out
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leaving the birds none of their food
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that's designated for them so that's
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where this little cone object comes that
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makes a little more difficult unless the
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squirrel is crafty maybe jumping from
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that limb I could see that happening oh
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yeah now that I see that no food for the
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birds
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some burrowing going on these holes down
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in the ground the most prominent one or
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a prominent series of them are here
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something is digging maybe not burrowing
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but something is digging into the soil
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as evident by these not your standard
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type roof on those three buildings
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little picnic areas
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it's made of fat or grass or leaves of
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some sort whoa that is a healthy walk 25
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miles if I were to continue down this
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path I'll take it for a little bit and
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then kind of circle back not sure how
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well this will show up on camera but
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there are dragonflies just swirling
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around in here
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lots of dragonflies fifty or a hundred
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of them or more
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stay away from those bird feeders you
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hear me it's not for you squirrel a few
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different types of trees including a
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palm and one that kind of has a swirling
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upward motion look at the roots they are
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how they just kind of swirl in and
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thence we're almost looks like
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soft-serve ice cream as it goes up the
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trunk and all the way higher than the
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other ones that are around look at that
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you are here early settlers harvested
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cypress trees for use as shingles thus
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giving the name to the headwaters of the
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Everglades
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Shingle Creek I never knew that that's
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that's pretty interesting how's the view
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up there can you see for miles and miles
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oh hey I know it's an overused joke but
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please don't bail on it
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crossed over highway 192 that is the
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thoroughfare the bridge there with the
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traffic going by still on the same Creek
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standing on this dock and there are some
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historical relics over on this side as
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well an array of cypress knees that
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would be the smaller version not quite a
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tree just just little knees there's a
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few there they're usually right by the
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water and a patch of them over there
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cypress knees the families mostly
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farmers and cattlemen lived along the
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creek that provided water fish and a
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waterway to Allendale which in 1883
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became Kissimmee
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I'm gonna go walk across that bridge
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going all the way back to 1880 this
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family cabin was owned by the steffie's
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ste FF EE the first bridge to cross the
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creek was built for the Florida Midland
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Railway and the Depot was less than 1/2
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mile northwest from this location
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these bolts have different coloration
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green yellow red and brown some pieces
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of the older version of the bridge still
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down there
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of course this new one has been
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constructed
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this cat does it have a care in the
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world do you cap
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in 1883 Judson Hartmann Steffi and his
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wife Molly and their three children
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moved from Kentucky to Florida and then
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later in 1911 the family built this
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house decades later it was restored and
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sits hill preserved for all to see
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George used to captain clay Johnson
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steamboat the raw sea otter ro s e a da
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operated it until 1926 when it was
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destroyed by a hurricane
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Henry Haynes later lived in these
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accommodations and that's Henry chillin
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on the front of that vehicle this thing
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is pretty sweet especially for that time
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frame nice porch large porch get all the
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family members there just hanging out
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Wow wraps around tucked away over in
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this corner is a framed photograph of
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some of the the animals you can find
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around these parts a bird called an Ibis
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a limpkin Osprey
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an apple snail on the top right there
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and of course alligators snakes hawks
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and maybe even the occasional north
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american river otter
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also notice that the woodwork there that
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trestle out there in the woods remnants
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of the past
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not the dog that's barking but I heard
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something else rummaging around down in
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there
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might have been a dear don't see it or
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hear it now
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come on see in the next video yeah yeah
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oh dang
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I've been there