Florida Caverns State Park: Marianna, Florida

By Robert O. Vernon

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: May 19, 2021
• ISBN: 4064066170530

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Robert O. Vernon

Florida Caverns State Park

Marianna, Florida

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4064066170530

Table of Contents

FLORIDA CAVERNS A NATURE-MADE WONDERLAND

Solution of Limestone

Land Movements in Florida

Deposits in Cave

Early History

MARIANNA, FLORIDA The Home of Florida Caverns

Scenic and Historic Florida Year Around Attractions

STATE PARKS IN OPERATION (Acreage shown in parentheses)

SCIENTIFIC AREA

STATE PARKS PARTIALLY DEVELOPED

UNDEVELOPED STATE PARKS

HISTORIC MEMORIALS

PARKWAY

VISIT Florida STATE PARKS and HISTORIC MEMORIALS

Here we behold most wondrous sights

No mortal understands,

Of stalactites and stalagmites,

A house not made with hands.

Here Nature set to work her hands

In ages long since gone,

That man might quit his work on lands

To see and ponder on.

What means these fluted columns tall,—

These pendants from the dome?

These sculptured figures large and small,

Excelling Greece and Rome?

This drapery striped with Nature’s hues,

In regular spaces wrought?

These scenes man’s pride at once subdues—

They are beyond his thought.

The brute would look and turn away

To seek his fill of food;

’Tis ours to seek while here we stay,

The Great Creative Good.

The Architect within whose mind

The wonders of the sea,

The land, the sky, and all their kind,

Has wrought for you and me.

That we may look