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      • Site 1 Palmetto Bluff / Bridgeport
      • Site 2 Forrester Point
      • Site 3 Grays Creek
      • Site 4 Palatka
      • Site 5 Ravine Gardens
      • Site 6 Waterworks / Puc Puggy
      • Site 7 Rollestown
      • Site 8 Dunns Creek
    • Sites 9 thru 16
      • Site 9 Crescent Lake Campsite
      • Site 10 Bear Island
      • Site 11 Murphy Island / Dunns Island
      • Site 12 Seven Sisters Islands
      • Site 13 Spalding’s Lower Store
      • Site 14 Johnson’s Spring
      • Site 15 Satsuma Spring
      • Site 16 Nashua Spring
    • Sites 17 thru 24
      • Site 17 Welaka Spring
      • Site 18 Johnson’s Bluff
      • Site 19 Mount Hope / Beecher Pt
      • Site 20 & 22 Beecher Springs
      • Site 21 Mount Royal
      • Site 23 Georgetown
      • Site 24 Bryan’s and Drayton Island
    • Sites 25 thru 32
      • Site 25 Bryan’s and Drayton Island
      • Site 26 Orange / Lake George Points
      • Site 27 Rocky Point
      • Site 28 Salt Springs Run
      • Site 29 Salt Springs
      • Site 30 Cowpen Lake / Halfway Pond
      • Site 31 Deep Creek
      • Site 32 The Beautiful Isle / Drayton Island
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Bartram Strolls

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Bartram Strolls

 

Sunday morning at 8:00 am we will host two Bartram strolls featuring his spiritual views about nature. Reservations recommended.

 

  • The Riverfront Stroll be along the riverfront in Palatka and will include the “trout” sculpture, historic 1st Presbyterian Church and Bartram’s Illustrations in the Westminster Hall. Reading from TRAVELS will be included
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    Riverfront Stroll Reservations
     

  • The Mount Royal Stroll will be held on Sunday, Sept 30, at 9:30 am at Mount Royal, there will be a short memorial, recalling William Bartram’s travels in the Welaka area, including a reading of the prayer that he composed at Mount Royal. A concise summary of Bartram’s second trip to the area will be included.

    Location: 29.4297 N, 81.5209 W

    3 miles South of Welaka, Fl

    From the traffic light in Welaka, Fl, go 3 miles south on State Road 309. Turn right onto Fort Gates Ferry Road. Proceed straight for 0.3 miles (Fort Gates Ferry Road will bear to the right; stay on Mount Royal Avenue), to the Mount Royal Airpark gate. Continue through the gate, for 0.4 miles. Turn right onto Indian Mound Drive. Go 0.1 mile, and bear left to stay on Indian Mound Drive. Mount Royal is 200 feet on the right.

 

Mount Royal Stroll Reservations
 

The Frolic

In the fall of 1774 William Bartram experienced what is known as the Indian Frolic at Spalding’s Lower Store. His 9-month stay on his favorite river in Putnam County is documented in Bartram’s masterpiece TRAVELS. The annual St. Johns River Bartram Frolic on Palatka’s riverfront will celebrate our National Heritage River, the Bartram National Recreation Trail in Putnam County, and offer our county as a historic eco-tourism and recreation destination.

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