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Suwannee - Florida
Dixie County. Photo © Mark Visser |
Area Information
Suwannee is a community in Dixie County. It is located on the Suwannee River near its mouth, at the southern end of the Big Bend region of Florida.
Suwannee is a fishing village, with a population of about 300. It caters for both freshwater fishing in the river and saltwater fishing in the Gulf of Mexico.
The town is surrounded by the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge. There is a canoe/kayak trail into the refuge from launch sites in the town.
History: Suwannee County, the thirty-seventh county created in the StateFlorida, was formed on December 21, 1858 out of the western portion of Columbia County.
Early European history of what would be Called Suwannee County began in 1517, when a member of Panfilo de Narvaez’s expedition became the first recorded casualty of drowning in the Suwannee River while the expedition skirted the Gulf of Mexico in search of treasure.
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