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The term cracker was in use during the Elizabethan era to describe braggarts and blowhards. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack, meaning 'entertaining conversation' (which survives as a verb, as in "to crack a joke"); the noun in the Gaelicized spelling craic also retains currency in Ireland and to some extent in Scotland and Northern England, in a sense of 'fun' or ...
Florida cracker style house. Florida cracker architecture is a style of vernacular architecture typified by a wood-frame house. It was widespread in the 19th and early 20th century. Some elements of the style are still popular as a source of design themes. Florida cracker refers to colonial-era English pioneer settlers and their descendants.
Roberts Island complex. Coordinates: 28.9080°N 82.6398°W. The Roberts Island complex is an archaeological site in Citrus County, Florida, near the Gulf of Mexico, dating from the late Woodland period. It is located on an island in the Crystal River midway between the springs at the head of the river and the mouth of the river on the Gulf of ...
Website. www .crystalriverfl .org. Crystal River is a city in Citrus County, Florida, United States. The population was 3,396 in the 2020 census, up from 3,108 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Homosassa Springs, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city was incorporated in 1903 and is the self-professed "Home of the Manatee ". [5]
Forest Capital State Museum is a 13-acre (5.3 ha) Florida State Park located 1-mile (1.6 km) south of Perry on US 19 / US 98. The museum contains displays that recount the history of the forest industry as well as the wildlife of the forest. Adjacent to the museum is the Cracker Homestead built in 1864 that depicts life on a Florida homestead ...
June 21, 1990 [2] Crystal River State Archaeological Site is a 61-acre (250,000 m 2) Florida State Park located on the Crystal River and within the Crystal River Preserve State Park. The park is located two miles (3 km) northwest of the city of Crystal River, on Museum Point off U.S. 19 / 98 . Under the title of Crystal River Indian Mounds, it ...
Cracker Country is a living history museum of rural Florida, and Florida Cracker culture which was established in 1978 by Mildred and Doyle Carlton Jr. [ 1] Cracker Country features thirteen original buildings dating from 1870 to 1912 and is set in 1898. [ 1] The buildings were moved to their present location from throughout the state.
Crystal River (Florida) Coordinates: 28°55′36″N 82°41′41″W. View of Crystal River from the top of the temple mound in Crystal River Archaeological State Park. Crystal River is a very short river in Citrus County, Florida, flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. It is just seven miles (eleven kilometers) long, and has a drainage basin of five ...