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  Florida's surface water systems offer some of the states most attractive recreational enticements. Here dozens of bathers enjoy a swim in the Blackwater River.
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  The water was pumped from an artisan spring to the house.
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  The texture of the limestone rock in the foreground contrasts with the pine log.
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  Various small buildings serve as information headquarters near the entrance to the office.
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  The house is situated on 40 acres of pasture land.
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  A series of decks and walkways lead down the hill in the rear of the home.
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  The structure sits on the edge of a cotton field. The hand hewn pine logs are notched in a typical fashion for rural structures built before Victorian balloon-frame construction.The large porches surrounding the single-pen structure kept it shaded in the summer and provided extended work space.
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  The singular room for living is is a rectangle roughtly 15 feet wide and 20 feet long. A 10-foot-wide porch extends around two sides of the house with a doorway in each of these two sides.
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  Shady porches front and back were the major distinction between this single-pen Cracker cabin and a more primitive Seminole Chickee.
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  The corner of the building shows square-hewn log construction with dove-tail notching.
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  The corn crop will be used for silage to feed dairy cattle.