Andrew Wilcox

Drive-Thru Towns

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“Drive-Thru Towns” is about the places you only slow for a red light or a gas stop—tiny dots where something huge once happened. A forgotten invention, a vanished boomtown, a cult, a crime ring, a spiritualist camp, a song lyric, a ghost story. Each episode unpacks who, what, where, when, why, and how to reveal why that “nothing” town once mattered—and why it’s still worth pulling over for today.

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Andrew Wilcox

Episodes

St. Marks, Florida 11.03.2026 27:31

St. Marks: Small Town, Enormous Tab Welcome to Drive Thru Towns. In this episode, we pull over at the end of the road in North Florida to explore St. Marks—a town of 300 people with enough history to fill a library. From Spanish forts plastered in lime to look like stone to a pirate who declared his own sovereign nation in a swamp , St. Marks is a place where geography becomes destiny. We dive dee...

Drive-Thru Towns Season 1- Florida-Trailer 02.03.2026 2:44

Drive‑Thru Towns – Trailer Hosted by: Andrew Wilcox Music by: Chloe Jones Ever blown past a tiny town, slowed only by a red light or a gas pump, and thought, “There’s nothing there”? Drive‑Thru Towns is here to prove you wrong. I’m Andrew Wilcox, a sixth‑generation Floridian who grew up on the back roads while my mom made me read every historical marker out loud. Season One stays in Florida, but...