Joshua Creek, Highway 31, Desoto County
"TONS OF POTENTIAL" (listing agent's description in caps)
250 plus acres of prime citrus and pasture land, with an existing half-hidden partial homestead, sitting on 3000 feet of high potential, highway frontage.
On it's northern edge, this property now listed, once bordered the infamous and sprawling G. Pierce Wood psychiatric hospital (1947-2002). With on-going claims of mistreatment and patient neglect, the State of Florida found it necessary to close G. Pierce Wood in 2002. Not long after, the large barracks styled property was then converted to, the Desoto County Juvenile Correctional Facility (with it's own whispered past) before it was finally shuttered in 2011.
Today, riding along on my motorbike, just south of Arcadia, this once thriving rural stretch along Hwy 31, appeared eerily abandoned and overgrown - with it's long history, soon-to-be rewritten.
Part of the original homestead now listed on the market. The listed property was recently cut-back from years of overgrowth.
Along Hwy 31 - Part store, gas station and grocery in the Joshua Creek area. The area's one-and-only, 'Stop N Go'.
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