Add to ORKGHawthorne Marker (Obverse), FL. This marker is located on North Johnson St in Hawthorne, Fl. The marker reads as : (side 1) In 1774, noted botanist William Bartram travelled across what is now the southeastern corner of Alachua County following an old Indian and trading trail. In Florida\u27s territorial period, English-speaking settlers used the same route as a frontier road. By 1840, another road form the north crossed that trail near present day Hawthorne. In 1848, Morrison had begun to operate a mill there on what Bartram had described as a rapid brook. A United States post office called Morrison\u27s Mills was established at that site in 1853 in order to serve the increasing population of the area. (Continued on reverse side)http...