Beehead Ranch House
by Ben Prepelka
Title
Beehead Ranch House
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Ben Prepelka
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The Beehead Ranch House, located in Fort Christmas Historical Park, is a a true cracker home with a most fascinating name. In the early 1900s, the Tosohatchee Ranch Company worked the land in Florida's eastern Orange County. The Native American name Tootoosahatchee, a Seminole and Creek Indian term meaning Chicken Creek, is the root word for Tosohatchee which is used to describe this section of the county. The Beehead Ranch House was built for a Tosohatchee ranch foreman and his family. This central-Florida cracker style home, seen in an area covered with sable palms and huge live oak trees, was typical for the times. Built of yellow pine under a large oak tree, the house is raised up over a crawl space. The simple floor plan kept the house as cool as possible during long periods of Florida's summertime heat and humidity.
In explaining the Beehead name, here among one of Florida's many oak hammocks it's common to find native honey bees building their hives in the hollows of a live oak tree. When this was coupled up with cracker term for a group of trees, "head", the Beehead name was born.
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December 1st, 2015
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