Koreshan State Park (KSP) is a remarkable place which memoralizes that great period when the Nineteenth Century turned into the brand-new Twentieth Century. KSP was truly remarkable in many ways, especially for its "knowledge" of the solar system. Remember, this was back when electricity had just been discovered, and the automobile was presenting itself as a useable alternative to horse back travel. Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford not only still walked the earth but they visited the area now known was Koreshan State Park several times. What would you do, for example, if you not only knew the entire universe was inside the earth – but you could prove it as well?
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| Dr. Cyrus Teed |
To prove Cyrus Teed’s strange theory, Professor Ulysses Morrow devised a huge instrument he dubbed the Rectilineator, which would measure the (inverse!) curvature of the Earth. The weird contraption consisted of ten huge, double T-squares made of seasoned mahogany, set horizontally on ten carefully balanced mounts. In January 1897, it took nearly a month for Professor Morrow and a dozen workers to setup and calibrate the big apparatus on a stretch of beach at Naples, Florida. In the process, they "proved" the entire universe was inside the planet Earth on a stretch of beach at Naples, Florida.
Today, Koreshan State Park is an interesting place to visit and walk the nice trails that accompany the Estero River, and also to roam through the beautiful area that accompanies the river and the parkThere are many buildings that accompany the state park area, and it actually must have carried the atmosphere air of a great university. . . a University of Tomorrow, well . . . time will tell.
But it is a lovely place to visit, and walk on its trails, and perhaps, find out the great mysteries of the universe.
