Episode 15: Cracker House (A History of Central Florida Series)

[@johnnewton2320]

I grew up in those houses. I have the fondest memories. Live was so beautiful and simple.

[@rf-bh3fh]

Great Memories. As a child we would go visit Papa Grady and Ma Ma Pearl in a home like this but larger. Farmers Cow's Tobacco and other farm animals. The farm included a Pecan Grove. It was great, a fire place in each bedroom. Built way before electric or plumbing. I loved visiting and going exploring the woods and old railroad tracks for bottles. Hunting small game with my 22.

[@CrackerLyc0320]

I helped move the Lanier house, had the porch on my property on Shingle Creek. My cousins.

[@Nodontlook1]

My grandparents were Wade Hampton Lanier, Sr (1886-1951) and Maude Ellen Cobb Lanier (1892-1981), both born in Kissimmee.

[@rosegarza676]

These houses are not just in Florida. I grew up in Louisiana and there are many of these style of houses. Some still are lived in and have been kept up.

[@Slipmahoney21]

Where did you move it from? I live in Osceola County

[@lourdesm.velandia-calderon3486]

That's what I was thinking and makes total sense since Florida weather is similar ro Louisiana's and Alabama's. Really anywhere with swampy weather..

[@whfowle]

I remember visiting my Dad's sister who live in one of these homes. It was a two story design built high on pedestals with the bedrooms on the second floor, a wrap around porch on both levels. Ceilings were over 9 feet and cross ventilation allowed for a reasonable temperature in the heat of the summer. Build about 1850. The only water was from piped water from the nearby lake to a hand pump in the kitchen. Sanitation was an out house. Baths were in the lake.

[@georgepotter1820]

My Mother's family came to Florida after the Civil War and planted orange groves. The homes they built that evolved to meet the needs of a growing family were moved onto the Pinellas County pioneer park and can be seen there; the McMullen pioneer homes.

[@georgepotter1820]

I remember my Grandfather talking about running the cattle through the grove at different times of the year to graze, keep down the weeds and fertilize the trees. Organic farming cause that's all they had. His brother my Great Uncle lived on the property until he died. Robbie McMullen. McMullen Booth Road in Largo Florida.

[@Mr91495osh]

Another interesting property is located in Gainesville, DUDLEY FARM, a post civil war farm left in place with all the furnishings and stocked general store too!

[@bitbitten8726]

Poor! Are you kidding? I would love to have an all-wood house built like that. Wood houses feel good on the body & mind.

[@Flippin_Crazy]

It’s the way we are supposed to build.

[@adriaticseaeyes]

FL Crackers are people like my family- pioneers and settlers who moved here Pre civil war. Always farmers and always Southern.

[@manzjane5244]

Nice

[@1framistan]

I have an unabridged Websters dictionary which is almost 100 years old. It says a cracker is a white person of low class from down south USA. That is the 3rd most common usage. The 2nd most common meaning is a "braggart". The first most common meaning is something that cracks, such as a fire cracker or a whip. Nobody these days owns an UNABRIDGED dictionary. In the preface of my unabridged dictionary there is a small article which discusses "OBSOLETE" words. It says there are actually NO WORDS that are obsolete. If we do not KEEP the old meanings of words, then we no longer understand the true meanings of writings from the past. One of the best examples of this (My opinion) is the word "professor". Once upon a time, that word meant "someone who PROFESSES a belief in Jesus Christ & the Bible. That WAS the 1st most common meaning of that word 100 years ago. Think about that. What do YOU think when you hear the word "professor?" The "teachers" in our colleges today should be called "antifessors"... since most of them profess a belief in evolution and atheism!

[@debbiblakeslee2373]

Would like to know if it says anything about Antarctica ....there is a dictionary that states there is a dome over it. Then it was removed from the dictionaries in 1958 I believe 🤨

[@1framistan]

@@debbiblakeslee2373 Page 6 has a very detailed MAP of the antarctic, which has more detail than any map i could find on duckduck search. Here is what it says for definition: ANTARCTIC: Relating to the southern pole or to the region near it: as the antarctic circle ,ocean, etc. "antarctic circle" an imaginary circle around the earth, distant from the antarctic pole 23 degrees, 28 minutes." end quote. Looking at the map, It shows a dotted line circle which mostly follows the outer coastline and it is labeled "antarctic circle" but nowhere did i see the word "dome". If you want a JPG photo of the map, I can photo it for you and send as an attachment to email.

[@debbiblakeslee2373]

@@1framistan thank you very much

[@jimfrankmartin47]

The same people who claim the earth is flat claim the existence of this 'dome.' Same for those who believe the world's entire population descends from Noah and his wife and his three sons and their wives. @@debbiblakeslee2373

[@davidhollinghurst5572]

Webtsers nevever had the balls to print the truth ,Oxford is the way to go.