Suwannee River Guidebook. Kevin M. McCarthy

      The granite monument was dedicated in 1938.

      A granite monument at the Florida state line notes that in 1938 the state road department named that portion of the highway in honor of Frederick Preston Cone (1871–1948), who was the state’s twenty-seventh governor (1937–1941). He was from Benton, a small town north of Lake City, on U.S. 441. The Cone Bridge, commemorated today in the naming of the Cone Bridge Road across the Suwannee at about the 185-mile mark of the river, is no longer there. All that is left today of the bridge, which the Florida Legislature had approved in 1881 and later named for the governor, are some of the pylons on either side of the river.

      Drivers can enter Big Shoals Public Lands (for a fee) for access to hiking and biking trails.

2. Little Shoals to White Springs

      “The most far-reaching fame of the river comes not from its many intrinsic merits nor from its very lively history, but from the fact that Suwannee is a trisyllable that can be slurred into a disyllable which, when stressed on the first syllable, fit the meter of a song that Foster was trying to write.” —Archie Carr, “All the Way Down upon the Suwannee River