Gretna Green the marriage ceremony. The blacksmiths in Gretna became known as "anvil priests", culminating with Richard Rennison, who performed 5,147 ceremonies. The local blacksmith and his anvil became lasting symbols of Gretna Green weddings. Two in particular, The Old Blacksmith's Shop, built around 1712, and Gretna Hall Blacksmith's Shop (1710) became, in popular folklore at least, the focal tourist points for the marriage trade. The Old Blacksmith's Shop opened to the public as a visitor attraction as early as 1887. Victorian chronicler Robert Smith Surtees described Gretna Green at length in his 1848 "New Monthly Magazine" serial, "The Richest Commoner in
Gretna, Florida and northwest to Chattahoochee. Interstate 10 passes through the southwest part of Gretna, with access from Exit 174 (Florida State Road 12). I-10 leads east to Tallahassee and west to Pensacola. SR 12 leads southwest to Bristol, and SR 65 leads south to Hosford. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city of Gretna has a total area of , of which , or 0.13%, is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,709 people, 503 households, and 401 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 553 housing units at an average