Takes a little while to download but the picture is from 1910 and the quality is good.
The work on this web site and for the Archer Historical Society is more than a community service project for me. My father and his family were Archer residents, from 1905. My father was John Arthur Leynes Sr.
My Grandfather was George Robert Leynes Sr., and my Grandmother was Velma Lillian Crevasse Leynes of Cedar Key. My Grandfather emmigrated from Germany in 1885, grew up in Crystal River in Citrus County, and later worked at the phosphate mine in Morriston. My Grandmother was born on Atsena Otie Island off Cedar Key, and married my Grandfather in 1904 in Morriston. The Crevasse family moved to Morriston and left Atsens Otie Island after the hurricane of 1896, and the accompaning "tidal wave" or storm surge that destroyed all of the remaining homes and businesses that were there. After they were married they moved to Archer in 1906, when he came to work as a pattern maker at the Maddox Foundry.
After a short time staying at the old Snavely house, they bought the Lipsey house just south of town on the east side of highway 27/41. Here, my father, three brothers and three sisters were born and raised. The "old home place" as we called it was the scene of many memorable and wonderful family reunions, filled with good times, southern hospitality, deep dish pear pie, boiled peanuts, smoked mullet dip and love.
I lived and worked in Jacksonville until 1992 when I took a job assignment with the engineering department, of BellSouth, here in Gainesville. It is so wonderful to be near the "old home place" to remember those good ole' times, and now to be able to play a part in the preservation of the history of Archer!