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Listen: The Folk ProgramDevils Mill Hopper - Gainesville, Florida.
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Accompanying note: "In the era of railroads and steamship travel from Reconstruction into the 1920's, Gainesville enjoyed considerable fame as a center of many attractions. One of these was the Devil's Millhopper, a great, natural depression or sinkhold in the earth Northwest of Gainesville. Tourists, arriving on the train, were able if they wished to rent buggied and drive out to the Millhopper to picnic. Hundreds of small streams flow into the Millhopper, which always contains water, but which has no drain above ground. Streams flowing into the depression are popular with souvenir hunters, because pre-historic sharks tetth and other artifacts from the dinosaur age often turn up among the limestone sand and pebbles. The property is now owned by the University of Florida. This view is from a very early colored postcard, printed in Germany and produced in New York, and mailed by a fellow named 'Don' to a girl in Williston on July 21, 1908."
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