A Place in Florida – Did Adam and Eve Live Here?
There’s a place in Florida that an old-time preacher contended was the Garden of Eden, where Adam plucked the apple . . . well, you know the story, don’t you? If you’re hardy, you can go there and decide for yourself whether this preacher knew what he was talking about. This place in Florida is not your average tourist attraction. In fact, not a whole lot of people know about it. Still fewer go there. This article will tell you why, how to get there and what you’ll find when you do. The Baptist preacher, Elvy E. Callaway, was a lifelong Bristol resident who spent his entire life trying to convince anyone who would listen that the apple Adam plucked for Eve was on a tree along the banks of the Apalachicola River north of Bristol. There is little evidence that many believed him – certainly not Biblical scholars. So why did Callaway think this was the original Garden of Eden? He based his evidence on a Biblical passage that said a river in Eden spawned four other rivers (which the Apalach
