What is a Panacea? Traditional Cache
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The terrain is slightly uneven in this area, but it looks like a great place for a picnic. Watch the kids by the water though.
The word panacea means the “Cure All”.” In the 19th century, Wakulla boosters were determined to transform the county's natural mineral springs into a tourist attraction. That's how 'Smith Springs' became 'Panacea'--Greek for 'healing all'--in 1889. Advertisements boasted that each of the town's 13 bubbling ponds cured a different ailment. Tourists flocked to Panacea to bask in the restorative springs. There were hotels, restaurants, health spas, baths, bottled water for drinking, boardwalks, piers and pavilions over the bay, all oriented around the healing power of the springs and bringing prosperity until the Depression. Most of the development was destroyed by a hurricane in 1928, and the springs property soon fell into neglect. Thanks to Wakulla High School a local clean up effort is underway. Please use CITO in the area and imagine how grand this area once was.
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