Transylvania County may be known as the Land of Waterfalls, but it’s also the land of white squirrels. That’s thanks to a traveling circus.
As the story goes, a carnival rolled into Madison, FL, in 1949. A pair of ivory rodents were part of the main act, but escaped their cages and smartly found their way to a nearby pecan orchard. The orchard owner hired H.H. Mull to capture the roving duo, and he brought them to his young niece, Barbara Mull, in Brevard.
According to an article published in a 2005 edition of The Transylvania Times, Mull’s father allowed her to keep them in an enclosure in the backyard of their home on the corner of Caldwell and King streets. But during a daily feeding, the critters made a break for it…