Interview with Archie Jackson 18
April 4, 2001

B: Now, this was in your father's house near here?

J: Half a mile up there. Right outside there is where we kept the bulls during the
 off-season. We called it the bull pasture. They said it was right out here in my daddy's bull pasture. It stands to reason. It's the highest point of ground around
 here, not very high, but it was open and high. But Bruce
 said it was a little east of the house and there was a pond with a bluff, not a very
 high bluff, but it's high enough so you can see what's going on around you.

B: What fort was it?

J: He never said.

B: He said there was another one there?

J: Governor Perry's house used to sit where this house sits. The stagecoach trail is
 still in my front yard.

B: Right out here?

J: Right out there between the house and the cedar tree. There are routes and you
 can go out up to where he used to live and look south
 toward Micanopy and you can see where it went out. The opening is still in the trees where the stagecoach went out and went down to what was called Stagecoach Pond right down here at Oak Ridge Cemetery. That's where they
 changed horses.

B: Where was Perry's house?

J: Right here where we're sitting right here. He had another house up there in the
 field next to the railroad, and I've got one of the buttons off of his coat. I found it with a metal detector. It's got crossed cannons and South Carolina. It's one of those big coat buttons. It had to be his. That was another one of the Perry houses.
 They call that the Sally Perry house.

B: Is it still there?

J: No, it's been torn down for years. I have some of the bricks out of the chimney in
 my yard out here. The steps were still there. I would go out there with a metal detector and I found two or three Indian head pennies out there in the plowed
 field. I found that button. I would love to find a trash pile.

B: I'm sure it's around there.

J: Those boys from Tampa went out there with Spanish needles and metal detectors
 and they have never found it. I've dug up numerous artifacts around this yard

..