Revisiting a Tragic Incident at Indian Spring, Florida
Indian Spring lies about 450 feet south of SR 267 (Bloxham Cutoff) and 3/4 mile west of the entrance to Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park in Wakulla County, south of Tallahassee, Florida. It rests just over 1.5 miles northwest of the main spring vent of Wakulla Springs. The former YMCA Camp Indian Spring once surrounded this enchanting karst feature. The YMCA used it as a recreation area for summer camps. Fairly recently (July 2021), however, someone bought Indian Spring and the surrounding land and renamed it Sherlock Spring. The current trend of renaming widely known and established geographic features to something other than their traditional names baffles me. This relabeling often confuses long-time residents and visitors who have known these places by their conventional labels for decades. The native peoples in the region, such as the Apalachee and their Creek/Seminole successors, obviously did not call it Indian Spring. The latter name appears in the Florida Geological...