Yates House

John Burl (Bud) Yates III, born in 1875, and Polly Canada, born in 1874, first lived on the John Burl Yates’ homestead on Taylor Creek after they married, converting an old shed into living quarters and preparing meals on a cook stand in the open. They homesteaded the property where they built this one-room house and lived a simple life off the land, herding cattle, raising livestock, hunting deer, turkey, and wild hogs, and always keeping a garden. In the early years the kitchen was on the front porch, and after her husband died in 1923, Polly's sons added a kitchen to the rear of the house. The gray marl clay for the original stick-and-mud chimney came from a local clay pit in the Taylor Creek area.

Christmas, Florida · United States