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Historic Jefferson County’s 25 Must-Do Ideas
There is one county in Florida that doesn’t have a single stoplight—Jefferson—my kind of place! By Florida standards, this historic county is quite old. When it was chartered in 1827, Florida was still a territory. The county was named for the country’s third president, Thomas Jefferson. The county seat, in honor of his Virginia home, …
June 2011 Travel Writers Press Trip, Day 2, Madison and Jefferson Counties, FL
Day 2 of the Natural North Florida Writers Press Trip began early, with Doc feeling low from an overdose of Makers’ Mark. However, he was rejuvenated by the time we reached Tuten’s U-Pick farms in southern Madison County. There, we saw huge fields of peas, watermelons, tomatoes, peppers and eggplant ready for the picking by …