I didn't know about this place

I thought it was just someplace where cars raced around in circles. But there's this. Or maybe I'm thinking of Talladega.

The Spiritualist Camp in Cassadaga was founded in the late 1800s by one George P. Colby. Colby, a New York native and medium had been instructed by his spirit guide—a Native American named Seneca—to go to Florida and start a spiritual center. He trekked into the Central Florida wilderness in 1875 and homesteaded the land, in accordance with Seneca’s prophecy. A charter to form the Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Meeting Association was granted in 1894, and Colby acquired 35 acres. This spirit guide apparently had quite the knowledge of property rights. Over the decades, the Spiritualist Camp has grown to 57 acres. Cassadaga started as a place for snowbirds to practice their Spiritualism—a secular-minded, turn-of-the-century mish-mash of science, philosophy and religion.

Fast forward to 2013 – things have changed. 

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My Sherlock Holmes club made an overnight field trip to this place (some with families also made a side trip to Disney World--it was quite a weekend). Alas, I couldn't go. Heard it was fabulously interesting. The connection to Sherlock was that Conan Doyle was an ardent Spiritualist--though he had Holmes once remark that "this agency stands flatfooted on the ground--no ghosts need apply." Or something to that effect.