Brick City Park was created as a scenic park with a board walk which leads down into a quarry, little league baseball field, football field, picnic tables, benches, playground and even a space capsule at the Discovery Science & Outdoor Center. Its roughly 22 acres and near the outskirts of downtown. Its a pretty dismal place at night there is some old tracks that run along it that are overgrown and woods. Its easy to get turned around when hiking here at night. 

The Quarry was started after 11883 when a fire destroyed downtown Ocala. So the city decided to use brick, granite, and steel rather then lumber supplies. By 1888 when Ocala was rebuilt it was called the brick city thanks to this quarry being created. The rock would be fired up in the kilns then utilized as plaster for finishing walls in homes. The kilns are still present in the very bottom of this 125 foot pit.

Other names that it was called was lime rock quarry and Oakhurst. In 1900 the city decided to make it a natural environmental wonder. I really enjoyed this place and I did read somewhere some deaths took place. 

The one amazing thing is how steep the pit is and as you go down it becomes overgrown, moist and cool till you read the bottom of the quarry. Its a pretty eerie place. 

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