ericadawn16 | Dade City and local stuff

I know I don't live in the best progressive area. However, I can usually ignore this except when we decide to hit up the local businesses, or in this case...Dade City.
If you don't know Dade City, it is the county seat of my county. It's quite old and has a pretty successful antiquing district aka most of its downtown because we're a small county and pretty poor. This is made worse by giveaways to developers and "potential" new employers.

Along the road to Dade City has a house that proudly proclaims that it's Tea Party Headquarters, but this time I spotted a local business that put on its outside sign, "Best prices in town, Honest Injun".

*facepalm*

I also found out about a town I never knew about that existed between my town and Dade City, Freedtown. It was abandoned because of a hard freeze destroying all the crops in the 1890s...luckily, not a violent end like Rosewood. However, no one kept up the church and cemetery. The graves were marked with wood and colored glass so when the church gave way and rotted, no one knew what it was. Eventually, that whole area was bulldozed and now no one knows where the cemetery is.

I find it sad because someone took the time to bury them and now they're just forgotten.

http://www.fivay.org/markers/freedtown.html
http://pascocemeteries.org/freedtown_cemetery.html

I found it because I was trying to find out an author who owns one of the antique stores in Dade City. The cashier was telling me how he actually followed Hernando de Soto's route for his book on the subject. Then, another book he wrote was about one of the only survivors of the Fort Dade massacre. I thought it sounded interesting but I forget his name and I couldn't find it on Amazon.

However, I did re-discover Cracker Westerns! They were westerns set entirely in Florida. I loved them in middle school.

http://floridahomelibrary.jimdo.com/fiction/cracker-westerns/