Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Visitors to this Florida homestead can walk back in time to 1930s farm life where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived and worked in the tiny community of Cross Creek. Her cracker style home and farm, where she lived for 25 years and wrote her Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Yearling, has been restored and is preserved as it was when she lived here. 

Marjorie Rawlings was honored as a First Floridian by Governor Charlie Crist in March 2009. The United States Postal Service released a commemorative stamp in 2008 honoring Rawlings and the literary arts. In 2007, the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings house and farm yard was designated as a National Historic Landmark. Visitors may tour the house with a ranger in period costume from October through July. Picnic facilities and a playground are located in the adjacent county park.

TOURS

Guided tours at the park begin at the barn, walk through the farmyard and then through the historic house. Tour guides will talk about Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' life, her writing, farm life in the 1930s, and Cross Creek. Tours are offered Thursdays through Sundays, October through July (except for Christmas and Thanksgiving) at 10 and 11 am and 1, 2, 3, and 4 pm. Tours are $3 for adults, $2 for children 6-12; younger children are free. Group tours can be scheduled, in advance, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Reservations are required for group tours. To make reservations or for more information, call 352-466-3672.

Fee Schedule

 Admission Fee:

 The park admission fee is $3.00 per group in one vehicle.   Please use the honor box to pay the fee; correct change is needed. 

 Guided tours of the Rawlings’s home:

 $3.00 per adult; $2.00 for children, ages 6 to12; children aged 5 and under are free.