Florida Time: Why this minister claimed the Garden of Eden is in Florida
Readers: What better time than the holiday season to explore the Garden of Eden? It was in Florida. You didn’t know? Well, we’ve often called our state paradise. Why not? It all came down to the torreya tree. Actually Torreya taxifolia. Around 1835, the owner of the Goodwood Plantation in Tallahassee named the tree for 19th century American botanist John Torrey. It’s a conifer that’s found only in a few places in the world. One of them became what’s now the nearly-14,000-acre Torreya State Park, 45 miles west of the state capital. Elvy Edison Callaway was a Baptist minister and u...
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