Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park is a Florida State Park located in White Springs off U.S. 41, along the Suwannee River in north Florida.
Stephen Foster is famed for having written the song "Old Folks At Home", also known as "Way Down Upon the Suwannee River". The song, referring nostalgically to "home far, far away", is now Florida's State Song.
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