Crooked River State Park

The earliest residents of Crooked River State Park were the Guale and the Timucua Indians who were pushed out and moved southward in the 1700s. Once a Royal Land Grant, Crooked River State Park was confiscated at the end of the revolution and owned by Robert Montfort. In 1792, Alexander Elliot purchased the area of the park known today as Elliott’s Bluff. Records indicate in 1824, John H. McIntosh owned Mush Bluff, south of the park and Elliot’s Bluff. Evidence of this plantation era and earlier times remains on the park’s grounds, including old bottles, planted pines, and oyster shell middens found along the marsh edge on the east side of the park. The park opened in 1947 and is on the National Register of Historical Places.