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Listen: The Folk ProgramBill Wyatt in Tallahassee pointing toward the "Wakulla Volcano".
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, M87- 27, Box 15
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The Wakulla Volcano was the name given to a prominent column of smoke, sometimes accompanied by bright light, seen coming from deep in the swamps of Wakulla County from at least the Spanish occupation of Florida through the Charleston earthquake on August 31, 1886. The scientific assumption today is that the smoke came from a peat fire.
Accompanying note: "Standing on hill south of city, Bill Wyatt points toward area where 'volcano' smoke rose ...he organized an expedition to volcano site in 1930's, found rocks big as houses there".
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