Remembering Suwannee

J.D. Henry reflecting  on Live Oak’s past - 1976 Susan Coleman Fennell Contributor Born in Chipman, Tenn., J.D. Henry came to Live Oak in 1908 when he was 14 years old. He remembers his uncle D.O. Henry telling him about how the city got its name. Back in the days of covered wagons, frontier Florida was traversed from Jacksonville to Tallahassee in about nine or 10 days with stops about every 25 miles. People used to stop at the old county seat in Houston, but cattlemen and railroad men liked camping under a group of huge oak trees where they could relax in the shade and drink from a nearby pond. The largest live oak tree was located just off West Duval Street and at the southeas