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Gold Head Branch State Park, a Florida State Park, is just shy of 2400 acres (8 km²) of rolling sandhills, marshes, ravines, lakes and scrub located midway between Gainesville and Jacksonville, six miles (10 km) north of Keystone Heights on SR 21. Gold Head is one of the earliest state parks in Florida.
Small amounts of gold were mined commercially in North Eastern Florida during the late 19th Century, at the site where Mike Roess Gold Head Branch State Park is located today. No records are extant on the amount of gold produced, but the find was insufficient to keep the operation running commercially, and the small amount of pay dirt was ...
The Florida Park Service is the division of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection responsible for the operation of Florida State Parks, and won the Gold Medal honoring the best state park system in the country in 1999 and 2005 from the National Recreation and Park Association.
^ Florida's state gem, moonstone, was adopted to highlight Florida's role in the United States' Lunar program, which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [81] ^ Since 1983, Massachusetts has had 3 other official state rocks: State Historical Rock (Plymouth Rock), State Explorer Rock (Dighton Rock), and State Building and Monument Stone . In ...
The Kanopolis State Park First Day Hike begins at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 1 from the park's main office, 200 Horsethief Road in Marquette, and will see visitors taking a nice journey on the 2-mile long ...
Fort Pierce, Florida — A collection of 37 gold coins — with a combined value estimated at more than $1 million — have been recovered after they were stolen by salvagers back in 2015 from a ...
Mushroom Rock State Park: Ellsworth: 5 acres (2.0 ha) 488 m (1,601 ft) 1965 Perry State Park: Jefferson: 971 ft (296 m) 1968 Pomona State Park: Osage: 490 acres (198.3 ha) 1,024 ft ( 312 m) 1963 Prairie Dog State Park: Norton: 1,150 acres (465 ha) 2,352 ft (717 m) 1964 Originally named Norton Park Prairie Spirit Trail State Park: Sand Hills ...
Gold coins from the 1715 Fleet Shipwrecks in Florida. Evidence emerged in June linking Eric Schmitt, a member of the Schmitt family, to the illegal sale of the stolen coins in 2023 and 2024, FWC said.