Where Was ‘Doc Hollywood’ Filmed? 

 

 

 

 

“As per Gainesville.com, the small historic town, Micanopy, Fla was the primary shooting location for this romantic comedy film. The 600 plus residents of this small town played the host to the cast and crew members of this film. They supported them immensely during the shoot of the film. The director selected this town to become the fictional town of Grady S.C. as is shown in the film. The town Grady S.C. was shown as the Squash Capital of the South in the film. The antique shops and the heritage character preserved in the town reminded the director of movies of small towns that he had seen as a young boy. According to an interview that the director gave, the film is a reflection of the way he thought about America while growing up”

 

 

The history and beauty of Micanopy, Florida

Welcome back to your tour of old time Florida

Herlong Manson B&B

 

 

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  Downtown Micanopy

Hollywood has filmed two major motion pictures in Micanopy, Cross Creek(1983) and Doc Hollywood (1991)

 

I thought that since the last section of the tour was all about Rawlings and Cross Creek I’d change the focus for Micanopy.

 

Micanopy Countyline Cottages

So back to directions—We were last on 346 and just coming to US 441—once you reach this hwy.  you need to make a Left turn—-4 lane Hwy here my dears so use care—-there is no light at this intersection–cross over the first 2 lanes—north bound and go left on the 2nd two south bound.

The first street south off here is S.E. Tuskawilla  also labeled SE 165th Ave on  Map  (you see that a lot in Micanopy so either one usually works and are the same street

 

The Micanopy Inn

 

 

On the Left

 

 

 

Little Blue Farmhouse

 

 

 

Tuscawilla Preserve

 

 

 

 The  Thrasher Trail can be found by traveling approximately 0.8 miles East of downtown Micanopy on SE Tuscawilla Road/SE 165th Avenue.  (we are traveling from the east into downtown Micanopy area so we’ll pass it on the way and you can stop or not—some like trails and walking—some don’t)

A Side Trip south of town

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Timucua

Town of Micanopy

 

 

 

Lost Ark Antiques

Local family owned antique & collectibles store for over 40 years. located in downtown Micanopy

 

 

 

Seminole Heritage in Micanopy

 

Very little is known about the Micanopy mission as the Franciscans did not apparently keep very detailed  records and all the buildings that were once here are long gone.—but we do know that this new world of Europeon settlers was not kind to the passive Timucuans.

Continue On

 

 

 

MICANOPY (ca. 1780–1848).

The Chief—not the town

On the Right

 

 

Shady Oak Gallery and Stained Glass Studio

 

The gallery/store features beautiful stained glass windows and lamps as well as jewelry, art pieces by local Florida artists, home decor and gifts. Shady Oak Gallery and Stained Glass Studio is located in historic Micanopy, just 12 minutes south of Gainesville, Florida.

 

 

 

The Timucua Indians—After the Europeans Came—(1562-1767)

No,  theTimuans were no match for the British and the Creek—their fierce Native American allies who eventually expanded from their Carolina area by use of savage raids between 1702 to 1706 resulting in a destruction of the Spanish missions and making slaves of the converted tribe member (est. 12,000) who would for the most part spend what was left of their life enslaved and abused on the English plantations.  Those who survived uncapture fled with the Spanish to Cuba in 1763.

 

 

 

Seminole War Chiefs – Micanopy Historical Society Museum

 

 

In the same building as Shady Oak Gallery

 

 

Coffee n’ Cream

Tasting nicely cooked soup, chicken dumplings and chicken salads is what many clients recommend. At Coffee n’ Cream, order tasty ice cream, brownies and banana pudding. Good beer, wine or sherry will make your meal better and you’ll certainly come back. Delicious coffee with cream, iced coffee or espresso are among the best drinks to try.

Coffee n’ Cream 

 

This town was origionaly called Wanton (Wanton’s Trading Post to be exact) for Edward Wanton, an early settler and manager of a land grant in  the area.  It was of particular importance during the Seminole Wars . It would not become Micanopy until 1834.

 

 

 

Micanopy, Florida: Its Early Residents, History, & Cemetery

 

We continue thru down town

 

 

When The First Jewish Utopia In The U.S. Was Founded In Micanopy

More on the right

 

 

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Old Florida Cafe

“Our food is like our town, Original and Fabulous”.

Micanopy Library

In 1773 Wm Burtram and four traders arrived here where the Seminoles, (or runaways) an off shoot of those British allies the Creeks, honored them with a great feast.

 

 

 

 

Vacation rentals in Micanopy

Cross 2nd Street

By 1821 Florida had become an American territory—at that time the chief was Micanopy—accounts are crazy on this man–some say small and rotund, others that he was so fat and lazy he had to be carried to do battle,  but all agree that he was the head of the Alachua Seminole—basically what we refer to a chief.  He has been in some account the force behind the Dade massacre on Dec. 28, 1835……… originally friendly to the European settlers he saw the loss of his lands to those same people and his tribes captivity and rebelled  Eventually he and the remenants of his band were captured and sent to a reservation in the Oklahoma territory–he died in January of 1849.

Oklahoma is – and always has been – Native land

On the right

 

Micanopy Trading Outpost

 

This cool little store is open most days from 10 to 5. Full of art, furniture, and eclectic items.

 

 

By 1823 Micanopy had 25 dwelling with about 10 more being constructed.   The fort near here (Dane I believe) here was abandoned to the Natives in the summer of 1836—it was about 10 miles from what would become Micanopy.     After that there was Ft Defiance—this  fort was first and was burned by the army to eradicate an outbreak of fever and then Ft Micanopy was built a year later in 1837 on the same site but saw little action.  It was important however as a suppy depot, military hospital and a rallying point for expeditions against the Seminoles until 1842 when the conflict with them and the European settlers ended.

 

 

 

More Florida Forts

 

 

 

On the right

 

 

 

House of Hirsch Too Antiques

This house was used for the Hosptial where Michael J. Fox serves his sentence in th town of Grady—it is in front of this house where they say good bye to him for his short sojourn in Hollywood.  This is where he takes the pie from his now his patient Country Dr that was his supervisor before his health problems and you can enter the now antique shop and look around a bit.

 

 

 

SUNSET BOULEVARD COMES TO MICANOPY

 

Three companies from this area served in th Confederate Army during the Civil War.

 

 

Things to do in Micanopy, Florida (FL): The Best Shopping

 

 

Cross  N.E. Bay Ave.

 

 

T H E   C I V I L   W A R
1 8 6 1 – 1 8 6 5

On the Right

 

 

 

Micanopy Historical Society Museum and Archives

This museum is housed in

The Thrasher Warehouse

which is located on what on some maps is First and on other it’s Chulotta

at Bay or Early St.  They agree it’s S.E. —not my fault honest

It was constructed in 1890, being origally on a branch of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad until the 1930’s.

 

 

MICANOPY BUSINESS LISTINGS

 

 

The building has two wide service door with a loading platform.  It has original wooden shingles covered by a tin roof and you can see some of the red paint under the eves.

Inside you can see the original cashier’s cage, sealed pipe which originally carried carbide gas to the hanging brass lights in the room.

Before it served the railroad it got its name as a warehouse used by J.E. Thrasher, Sr.  which he opened in 1896 as part of a general merchandise business–where he housed farm equipmet hardware, lumber and supplies which was part of a 3-business quadrangle which was on the property along with lots for live stock and a livery stable.

The warehouse was to serve in another capicity when his “up town” store burned down in 1911 he moved his grocery, furniture and dry goods into this building and kept his store open here till he could build another store:  this in a two story brick affair in the next block.

Today the building holds a museum which includes a mosaic exhibit donated by Simon H. Benjamin—who constructed the first brick building in Micanopy—the collection donated by his great grandaughter includes engraved china, silver and jewelry.

Other exhibits include a

1880-1920 Transportation Display

A Children’s Corner

and

A Display on Chief Micanopy

A Gift Shop and more

 

 

 

Micanopy Historical Society Museum – WUFT’s Greater Good

 

Cows were kept on Paynes Prairie near here during the Civil War, to be fatten prior to shipment by rail to the troops by the “Cow Calvary”.   You can see Captain Powell’s grave in the Micanopy Cemetery along with many other Confederates as well as Union veterans.

Paynes Praire History: Ranchero de la Chua

 

Past NE 7th Ave on left

For  awhile after the Civil War it was a thriving market town, but by the late 19th century it was in decline due partially to the loss of it’s water way that is now Payne’s Praire but mostly due to the rise of Gainsville.

Florida Heritage Books and Maps

 

On the right

 

 

Mosswood Farm Store

Payne’s Prairie’s basin, which was formed through the solution of underlying limestone and subsequent seatling of terrain is covered by marsh and wet prairie vegetation with areas of open water.

 

 

 

Museum in the Parks: The Birds of Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park

Past N.E. Lucky Ave/also NE 7th Pl on the right

 

 

Restaurants in Micanopy

The immediate area, much of which lis within the preserve, was a center for man’s activities in Florida for many centuries.  Human occupation of this area dates back to 10,000 BC.

During the late 1600s, the largest cattle ranch in Spanish Florida operated here.

 

A beloved bookstore loses its owner, reason for being

 

 

Pass N.E. 8th Ave on left

In 1645 the Marquez family founded the La Chua ranch here and used Timaucuan Indians and slaves as cowboys.  They shipped the beef to feed St. Augustine and the hides to Cuba for supplies and rum.

There is a road that turns off on the left but continue on your current route straight ahead.

In 1682, as the story goes, French Pirates came overland from the Swannee and took the family and their servants (on the ranch) captive and held them somewhere about the praire, demanding ranson.    But the Timucuans—who you remember didn’t do well against the British and Seminoles did better against pirates who they ambused and rescued their employers.

 

 

 

Steamboat Chacala Anchor

You will shortely come to 441—-this is a divided 4 lane highway—turn left

immediately on the right with a Marathon gas station is a:

 

 

 

Pearl County Store and Barbecue

August 2019: Southern Living Magazine named Pearl Country Store and Barbecue one of the
four best barbecue restaurants in Florida!

 

 

The store has the usual convenience store stuff – coolers full of Gatorade and beer, candy, chips, cigarettes and Lotto tickets. It also has the Sunday New York Times, fine wine, coarse ground grits, biscuit & pancake mix, corn meal and Micanopy Gold’s outstanding line of hot sauces. When locally grown produce is available, they sell it, as well as jams, syrups and other regional favorites. Their Florida Heritage section has maps and books of regional and state interest.

 

 

Drivers navigate new traffic patterns on U.S. 441 in Micanopy

 

OK I’m gonna do one more episode from this place with gas and BBQ.

 

 

 

Kevin McCarthy Micanopy Florida a Illustrated History 

 

I know that I have offered a lot to do and what’s available—-first you gotta figure out what you really will enjoy and how long it will probably take (given two days it’s probably all workable—-rushing yourself isn’t something I recommend-Next week will finish off info on Payne’s Prairie and give you places you can visit there—-If you just make a short sojourn—which is what I did—getting lost in this place isn’t my fun.  Or you can see it and then—-either call it a day and exit here with options of 441 or I-75 to head home or where ever else you wish to go.  Stay the night and either finish your day here and then do the rest on the next day

The other option is to just skip Payne’s (or do a short trip) and do the walking tour of Micanopy (which could also be done on a 2 day trip or another day trip—-

But what ever we’ll start with Payne’s Prairie next week.

Note that the British – Creeks raids in this area ultimately destroyed the Spanish ranches including La Chua—which was the largest.  100 years later whn Bartram arrived in the area all these ranches were gone—but the area was full of cattle—now running wild and providing a nice wild feed for the Seminoles that remained as well as whatever flesh eating beasts that resided there.

Oh and did I mentioned the buffalo?

 

 

Wild Bison Call this Florida Prairie Home

OK see you next week

 

 

 

 

 

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