Marjorie Harris Carr’s most prominent legacy on the byway was halting construction of the Cross Florida Barge Canal after a long 1962-1971 battle in which she enlisted citizens’ groups, formed an environmental group, and rallied the public to stand up for the local ecosystem and the threatened Ocklawaha River. The Civilian Conservation Corps put many unemployed young men to work during the Great Depression, and national forests across the country benefited from its construction of 126,000 miles of roads and trails, the planting of millions of trees, the building of fire towers, and permanent structures for visitors; at Juniper Springs, one of its most unique projects was the Mill house, built in 1935-36 to provide electricity in a place miles from other sources, along with further trail and campground development. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, William Bartram, a Quaker from Britain, fell in love with wild Florida, and as a naturalist, painter, and visionary he portrayed the area in his books as an Eden, a vision that inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge to create works such as Kubla Khan.