SPRAY

NAME: Spray
COUNTY: Madison
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 2
CLIMATE: Fine
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime
COMMENTS: No residents however there are scattered farms. Take SR221/55 North out of Greenville and turn right on CR140. After you cross the RR tracks you will come to a dirt road, turn left to dead end at the RR tracks. The Ghost Town of Dennett is also farther North on the RR tracks.
REMAINS: Cracker Home at the turn, Nothing more
Spray apparantly was a farming and sawmill community on the railroad tracks around the turn of the century. There was a Post Office and General Store where Fountain Hayne Cone Jr. was the Postmaster, General Store proprietor, teacher, and minister. Submitted by: Mike Woodfin


This Cracker Home is at the turn to Spray. Picture courtesy of Mike Woodfin.


Left to right: William Dewey Cone, Lydia Ann Willis, Fountain Hayne Cone Jr., and Allie Blanch Cone. Fountain Hayne Cone Jr. was the Postmaster, General Store Proprietor, Teacher, and Minister in Spray. Photo courtesy of the Florida State Pictoral Archives.

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