Around the Banks

Johnny Bullard Guest Columnist Several people have asked me about the historic building in White Springs which houses Suwannee Hardware and Feed on the corner of Bridge Street and US Highway 41. The building was constructed by the late Sophia Jane Adams Broward in the early 1890s and was known many years as Adams Brothers, Inc. Broward's husband, the late Captain Robert Watkins Adams, who was a hero of the Confederacy, was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg and imprisoned in a Federal prisoner of war camp, was not a well man when he returned to White Springs, Fla., after the War Between the States. Due to harsh conditions of the prison camp, he lost some of his limbs to frost bite and e