Willie Browne lived alone in a cabin on 361 acres of land his father purchased in 1884. This pristine patch of woods overlooked the marshes east of the Fort Caroline National Memorial. Browne continually resisted the urging of developers to sell the property, and upon his death December 14, 1970 he willed it to the Nature Conservancy. It is now the Theodore Roosevelt Area of the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve
