Condition: Near Fine. A Project of the Astor Kiwanis Club Stiff stapled wraps with photo illustration; 5.5 by 8.5 inches; 40 pages with a bibliography. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. The roots of modern-day Astor go back to 1874 when William B. Astor, Jr. bought 12,000 acres of land along the river and named it Manhattan. Astor was a descendant of the extremely wealthy John Jacob Astor, American's first multi-millionaire. Early settlers in Manhattan came by steamboat down the St. Johns River. Astor built a church, school, and cemetery. He followed up with a sawmill and hotel and built the St. John's and Lake Eustis Railway to Eustis and Leesburg. In 1765, famed botanist William Bartram explored the Astor area, declaring it an Eden in his book Travels, which includes over 70 pages about the Astor area. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Yearling, which was based upon her time spent in the Ocala National Forest living with the local families and listening to their stories. Set in the late 1870s, both Astor and Volusia (the town across the river) factor into the novel's locations. The Baxter family took the ferry across to Volusia to buy goods at the general store. Astor is a thriving town along the Florida Black Bear Scenic Byway. The St. Johns River is the heart of the community, which makes boating, fishing, and nature the core of Astor's livelihood. Seller Inventory # 18079

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