Blue Springs State Park near Clio, Alabama

Blue Springs State Park is a beautiful destination in the community of Blue Springs near Clio, Alabama. 

The centerpiece of the park is a gorgeous blue spring that pours out 3,500 gallons of crystal clear water per minute. The spring maintains a year-round temperature of 68 degrees, which makes it feel incredibly cold on hot summer days and yet almost warm during the winter.

The springs is among the sources of the Little Choctawhatchee River, an important tributary of the Choctawhatchee River.

The park also features camping, picnic areas, hiking trails, and much more.

Learn more by visiting their website at Blue Springs State Park.

The Great FOOTBALL Clash between MALONE & MARIANNA!

 1925 Pigskin Classic Electrified Jackson County!

by Dale Cox

Legends still persist in northern Jackson County about the days one century ago when Malone High School teams dominated not just the hardwood, but the gridiron, too!

Some of them are fairly exotic: "Malone once beat Auburn University in an exhibition game!" "The Tigers were so good at football that the politicians from Marianna had their team shut down!" There are a host of others - some of them far less glorious.

The truth of the matter is that the basketball powerhouse from the peanut fields fielded such a good football team in 1925 that news of the arrival of the Tigers in Marianna to play the hometown Bulldogs drew frontpage headlines. 

The following appeared in the Marianna Times-Courier on October 1, 1925:

As promised, the game was played before the largest crowd ever to attend a sporting event in Jackson County to that date. 

It was a "3-yards and a cloud of dust" slug fest that Marianna won, 7-6.