BRISTOL FLORIDA
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It is at the intersection of State Roads 20 and 12 about 15 miles south of I-10.
The town lies about 5 miles east of the Apalachicola River.
The population of Bristol is 1,000 people, more or less.
It is far east in Northwest Florida, so it could be considered to be near the border between Florabama and Florgia.
See our sections on Northwest Florida, North Central Florida and Northeast Florida to get a handle on those terms invented by the late Al Burt.
An old timer named Elvy Callaway got a lot of publicity a generation or two ago by claiming that the biblical Garden of Eden was in northern Liberty County.He said the evidence was that the Appalachicola-Chattahoochee River system has four heads, just like the river described in the Bible. He also said the area is rich in gopher wood, the same stuff that Noah used to build his ark.
Further evidence, said Elvy, was that the area from the Chattahoochee River south to Bristol contains 28 of the 30 varieties of trees mentioned in the Bible.
He believed that the Garden of Eden started about 4 miles north of Bristol and extended north into Georgia, and it was 25 miles wide in an east-west direction, and 35 miles long in the north-south direction.
You can get a glimpse of the natural beauty of this area by visiting Torreya State Park. Keep your eyes open for the gopher wood tree, torreya taxifolia.
If a Florida snake invites you to take a bite of an apple, you might think twice about it.
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