Remembering Suwannee: 1882 description of Luraville

Eric Musgrove Contributor The internet can be a very wondrous thing, providing access to records from all around the world at the touch of a button. One such record I found many years ago was an article about Luraville from The Florida Dispatch of Jacksonville, dated Sept. 4, 1882, and written by esteemed Suwannee County Judge John W. Rice, who lived in the community: “I have been a constant reader of The Dispatch from its first publication under the quill of your worthy, earnest, Col. Elliott. In its present form, its former intrinsic worth has been proportionally increased, and now, the general expression among us plow-boys is, ‘it is the best paper in the State.’ It