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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E9D_st-andrews-bay-skirmish_Panama-City-FL.html
St. Andrews Bay Skirmish. . The U.S. bark Roebuck, commanded by John Sherrill, was sent to St. Andrews Bay to prevent blockade running. On March 20, 1863, an 11-man scouting party landed in this vicinity to secure fresh drinking water. They were a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N0H_the-old-sentry_Panama-City-FL.html
This Heritage Oak Tree
is estimated to be over
250 years old
It was standing during
The War Between the
States as if a Sentry
standing guard over
Old St Andrews Bay
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EFI_vamar_Mexico-Beach-FL.html
Built in 1919 for the British Navy, this 170-foot steamer originally was christened Kilmarnock. Admiral Richard E. Byrd purchased the ship for use in his Antarctic expedition of 1928-30 and renamed her Eleanor Bolling in honor of his mother.
So…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E37_old-callaway-one-room-school-house_Callaway-FL.html
The Callaway School House was built in 1911 (two years prior to the creation of Bay County in 1913) on the SW corner of Beulah Avenue and Letohattchee Street. Callaway had been surveyed and platted in 1908 by Pitt Milner Callaway for whom the comm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS8R_john-christo-senior_Panama-City-FL.html
(side A)Built in 1927 by A.A. Payne, a banker, and bought by John Christo, Sr., the house is significant in architecture, a mixture of styles typical of the late 19th and early 20th centuries which includes Neo-Colonial Revival and Italianate Vill…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS8Q_st-andrews-school_Panama-City-FL.html
The first school in St. Andrew, a community established ca. 1827, was built in 1850. That building burned down. The second school was a two-story wooden structure with two large rooms on each floor. The school had four teachers and 100 students. I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS8P_the-gideon-versus-wainwright-case_Panama-City-FL.html
This is the site of the landmark Gideon case, after which the Public Defender system was established in Florida and throughout the nation. In 1961, Clarence Earl Gideon (1910-1972) stood trial in this courthouse for the felony of burglary. Lacking…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS8O_site-of-loftins-ferry_Panama-City-FL.html
Loftin's Ferry, on Pitts Avenue, which later became Parker, was an important part of the major land route called the "Military Road" that ran from Apalachicola through St. Joseph to Marianna and beyond. This road, constructed from 1836 to 1838 und…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM547_salt-kettle_Panama-City-FL.html
Used by the Confederaacyduring the war between the statesto recover salt from seawater
Presented byThe ConfederateSalt Works Chapterof theUnited Daughters ofThe ConfederacyDedicated April 20, 1960
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM544_st-andrew-skirmish_Panama-City-FL.html
Near this site on March 20, 1863, Confederate soldiers commanded by Captain Walter J. Robinson repelled a landing by Union sailors led by Acting Master James Folger of the blockading vessel U.S.S. Roebuck. The 11-man scouting party of Union sailor…