This cache was placed by a member of the
Northeast Florida Geocachers Association
The town of Ocklawaha is best known for the Ma Barker Gang. They have an annual Ma Baker reenactment every year, in January, to mark the day the Feds ended the gang's criminal endeavors. The original event which lasted over 4 hrs., happened Jan. 16,1935 with over 2000 shots fired by the FBI and the Barkers.
MA BARKER: CRIME FAMILY VALUES: The legend of Kate "Ma" Barker began, not with her birth, but her death. It's a story of a plump, matronly woman, thought to be the leader of one of the most notorious gangs of the 1930s - the Barker-Karpis gang.
J. Edgar Hoover called Ma Barker "one of the most vicious, dangerous and resourceful criminal brains" of his era. The FBI chief claimed that Ma was instrumental in teaching her four sons a life of crime: from stealing - to kidnapping - to murder. Though her boys went on to be violent criminals, making the FBI's most wanted list - there was never any evidence that Ma committed any crimes herself, or planned the crimes that put her sons in prison . Many historians believe it was Hoover who launched the legend of Ma Barker, after, they say, the elderly woman was mistakenly killed by FBI agents in a bloody gun battle.
The above information was found at: http://www.biography.com/cgi-bin/frameit.cgi?p=http%3A//www.biography.com/tv/listings/mbarker.html
If you like Prime Rib this is the place to go. It was featured in the Ocala Star Banner as Ocklawaha's hidden secret. On Mondays you can get a 31oz. Prime Rib dinner for 2 for only (new price)$21.95. I eat at this place a lot and I have watched them bring the meat to the table. It looks like they are eating the whole side of a cow. I could eat a week from this one serving. A lot of to-go boxes go out the door.
No bushwhacking required.