History of Cross Creek
Cross Creek became part of American literary history when Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won the pultzer prize for her novel The Yearling in 1939. Millions of readers were introduced to life in the woods of North Central Florida be this heart-wrenching tale of a cracker boy and his pet deer. The motion picture version of The Yearling and other works by Rawlings, including a book titled Cross Creek and the movie based on the book, were primarily responsible for transforming this tiny community of fish camps and farms into a popular tourist attraction.