Cracker Culture and Architecture

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About Cracker Culture and Architecture

UPDATE: Please post pics of "Cracker Culture" from Florida and Southern Georgia only. Photos from the "Deep South" including Alabama and Mississippi will be ok but on a limited bases.
After seeing more photos available from Florida, I'd like to see more pictures from Florida, and Southern Georgia, in keeping with the most popular view of "Cracker" origins.

PLEASE READ UP ON WHAT "CRACKER" REFERS TO. Bascially....wood-frame vernacular architecture from Florida and S. Georgia, typically built prior to...oh gosh this is hard to say but I'll say around 1960 or so..."Crackers" being Florida Pioneers who built homesteads and structures with materials from the land before Florida was really developed.

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"100- FL " by mscrant1971



("Cracker" refers to) utilitarian wooden structures constructed by early settlers in North Florida. These houses, raised high off the ground and surrounded by shady porches, responded both to the warm and sultry climate and to the very idea of living side by side with nature in such a beautiful environment. The technology with which they were built and the resulting modest but dignified forms reflected their rustic settings of tall pine scrub or hardwood hammock.
--excerpt from "Classic Cracker" by Ronald Haase

"Each region of our country has developed a distinctive architectural style. So it is with the old Cracker homesteads of Florida, whose sagging porches and rusting roofs are eloquent testimonials to a lifestyle that responded to its environment rather than fighting it. "

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If you are unsure, please see the following for more information on Cracker style:

www.oldhouseweb.com/stories/Detailed/12106.shtml
What is a Cracker?
www.amazon.com/Classic-Cracker-Wood-Frame-Vernacular-Arch...
A nice collection of restored Cracker homes and implements.


In honor of The Woodlea.