CELEBRATING THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE OCKLAWAHA RIVER 1824-2024!

In 1992 the United States Board on Geographic Names changed the official spelling of the river back to OCKLAWAHA, which was the original traditional way that this river's name was spelled from 1824 until 1892. The United States (federal) government had officially decided in 1892 that the spelling should be OKLAWAHA and it was so for a century.

1824 to 1892 "OCKLAWAHA" (68 years) +
1892 to 1992 "OKLAWAHA" (100 years) +
1992 to 2024 "OCKLAWAHA" (32 years)
= 200 YEARS = BICENTENNIAL!

"Ocklawahaman" Paul Nosca celebrates the OCKLAWAHA RIVER BICENTENNIAL by experiencing those wilderness parts of the Ocklawaha River basin's subtropical jungle hammock and swamp forests that even still in this year 2024, look pretty much the same as they probably did 200 years ago back in 1824!

From the rivers that flow from our sister states of Alabama and Georgia to the rivers that originate in our own Green Swamp, real experience in the Florida outdoors matters!