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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E6G_st-joseph-and-iola-railroad_Wewahitchka-FL.html
St. Joseph and Iola Railroad. . Third Steam railroad in Florida. Began operations in May, 1839. Built to transport cotton from Iola, located at Tennessee Bluff on the Apalachicola River, to the city of St. Joseph, 28 miles distant. The gauge was f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25OC_milly-francis_Wewahitchka-FL.html
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Francis the Prophet, whose Indian name was Hillis Hadjo, was an important Creek chief who was forced to leave his home in the Alabama Territory at the end of the Creek War of 1813-14. He established a new town on the Wakulla River sever…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25O1_steamship-tragedy_Wewahitchka-FL.html
In 1838 the steamship Irvington, carr[y]ing 200 bales of cotton on a downstream run, burned and sank four miles upstream from here. This 115 foot side-wheeler was constructed in 1836 in Marion, Indiana. These boilers and parts were dredged from th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25NE_fort-gadsden_Wewahitchka-FL.html
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Built in 1814 by Lieutenant Colonel Edward Nichols, His Majesty's Marines, as a rallying point to encourage the Seminole Indians to ally themselves with England against the United States in the War of 1812. Abandoned after 1814 [the date i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25ND_british-fort-magazine_Wewahitchka-FL.html
It is hard to imagine the horrible scene that greeted the first Americans to stand here on the morning of July 27, 1816. The remains of the 270 persons killed in the magazine explosion lay scattered about. They also found an arsenal of ten cannons…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WWY_gulf-county-old-courthouse-historical_Wewahitchka-FL.html
The South Portion of Calhoun County was cut out in 1925 to form Gulf County. Wewahitchka was chosen as the county seat. The first county business was transacted in a local business house until this court house was built in 1927, and served until t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WWX_wewahitchka-centennial-historical_Wewahitchka-FL.html
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Fort Place, or Richard's Fort, five miles south, erected in the early 1800's is considered as the forerunner of Wewahitchka. People lived in the area earlier. Wewahitchka (Indian name for water eyes), first permanent settlement in now Gu…