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    • (photo from The Transylvania Times)

    Visitors to Brevard often wish to sneak a peak at one of our now famous “white squirrels.” The disbelievers are soon convinced that these little critters are truly white. Close inspection (if you are lucky), reveals that the Brevard white squirrels have dark eyes like other squirrels and are not an albino variety, but truly white in coloring by nature.

    According to Brevard resident Mrs. W. E. Mull, the lore of the origin of the snowy critters goes something like this:

    In 1949, a carnival truck overturned near the home of Mr. Black of Madison, FL, apparently freeing several white squirrels. When Mr. Black observed the unique creatures playing in his pecan grove, he caught a pair, giving them to Mr. H. H. Mull, Mrs. Mull“s brother-in-law.

    Mr. Mull passed the pair of squirrels to his niece, Barbara, who attempted breeding them unsuccessfully until she married in 1951. Following the escape of one of the squirrels, Mr. Mull released the other, and they began to multiply in the wild.

    The rest of the story is more or less obvious. The squirrels became more than a novelty, becoming so prized by the residents of Transylvania County that in 1986 the Brevard City Council unanimously approved an ordinance protecting all squirrels in the area. The ordinance states, “The entire area embraced within the corporate limits of the city is hereby designated as a sanctuary for all species of squirrel (family Sciuriadae), and in particular the Brevard White Squirrel. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, kill, trap, or otherwise take any protected squirrels within the city by this section.”

    Today, the squirrels thrive in the area. It is not difficult to observe several playing in the trees or a friendly back yard during an afternoon drive around town. (The developers of this Web guide have several that call the trees in our back yard home. We call two of them Betty and Martha White And, no, we have absolutely no idea if the gender is correct!)

    If you would like more information about the white squirrel, check out the following sources:

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