The first was a statue of a brick horse- for real- in the parking lot of a motel....
On Thanksgiving Day, November 29th, 1883 fire broke out in Ocala. All of the buildings on the east side of today’s SE 1st Avenue from Silver Springs Boulevard to Fort King Street were destroyed. Five blocks of the business district were left in ashes and numerous records were lost, including files containing a great deal of Ocala and Marion County’s early history. The rebuilding of the town began almost immediately. Frame buildings were replaced utilizing brick, granite and metal. Within five years, Ocala was identified throughout the state as “The Brick City”.
“Brick City Fever” was sculpted by Cliff Fink in honor of our city’s heritage for Horse Fever, a public art project produced by the Marion Cultural Alliance which raised $850,000 for charity.
“Brick City Fever” was purchased by Danny Gaekwad at the Horse Fever art auction and dedicated at this location on July 11, 2002 by Mayor Gerald Engle.
Then, back to the campground, and we all sat out at John's unit for a couple of hours, then the Coles and us headed to Bob Evans to eat dinner, took them 50 minutes for the food to arrive, but they offered us free deserts to say sorry- Not sure what we may do today, there is a racing museum close by, and there has been talk of the glass bottom boats at the Silver Spring State Park across the street. There is a group dinner out tonight at a local Italian restaurant.
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