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Old 04-15-2021, 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by vintageogauge View Post
The long-time residents south of 44 live in Fenney, DeSoto, McClure, Linden, Monarch Grove, and Marsh Bend.
Actually Hawkins pre-dates those new areas by 500 years. When Hernando De Soto came down the Withlacoochie River in 1540, his journals, to my knowledge, mention the settlement at Hawkins. If you walk along the beautiful new trail in Hawkins, you can see the remains of a fence going out into the marsh. That area was a thriving settlement hundreds of years ago.