100 years ago, a farm near Marianna faced a ‘tribe’ of snakes
A recent trip into the Observer-Reporter archive found this curious piece of news from Monday, June 10, 1918, about blacksnakes overrunning the Dunbar Wallace farm near Marianna.
From the Washington Reporter:
“The Dunbar Wallace farm, near Marianna, appears to be a stronghold for members of the reptilian tribe, as many as a dozen or more large blacksnakes having been captured on the tract already this summer. Recently, a six and a half foot blacksnake was found coiled up fast asleep in a hen’s nest by a tenant of the farm, who quickly put an end to the earthly existence of his snakeship. Six large members of the blacksnake family were recently killed in a stonequarry on the same farm by some men engaged in getting stone for a barn foundation. Several others, the average length being between five and six feet, have been killed on the farm.”