Florida - Fishing, Way Down Upon the Swanee River

Way down upon the Swanee River, in Florida

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The Suwannee River is a major river of southern Georgia and northern Florida in the United States. It is a wild blackwater river, about 246 miles (396 km) long. (A blackwater river is a river with a deep, slow-moving channel flowing through forested swamps or wetlands. Vegetation decays into the water and stains the water dark, resembling tea or coffee. Most major blackwater rivers are in the Amazon River system and the Southern United States.)

This river is the subject of the Stephen Foster song "Old Folks at Home," in which he calls it the Swanee River.  It was called Swanee River because Foster had misspelled the name. Foster never saw the river he made world famous.