Silver Springs Brochure
These digital items are copies of a brochure that advertises Silver Springs located in Marion County, Florida. The brochure includes a map of Florida and a description of Silver Springs water discharge measurement, water stages, chemical analysis and climate. Following the American Civil War, Silver Springs became Florida's first tourist attraction and this brochure gives visitors a description of the spring and its attractions , such as the famous glass bottom boat. This brochure also gives readers insight into the history of human use surrounding the spring and how it developed to become a tourist attraction. The transparent waters of Silver Springs made the spring an inviting tourist attraction in Florida and became a popular filming location at the time, including movies such as Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), other popular attractions were Ross Allen's Reptile Institute, and the “Seminole Indian Village”.
