DeLeon Springs

Understand

This idyllic spot, 603 acres in all, has been occupied periodically since 8,000 B.C.

John J. Audubon visited Colonel Orlando Rees here at Spring Garden Plantation in 1832. Audubon wrote that the sight of the spring afforded him pleasure sufficient to counterbalance the tediousness of his daylong journey in a carriage drawn by Indian horses from the Bulow plantation.