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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2APB_historic-franklin-square_Apalachicola-FL.html
Apalachicola's layout was organized in the mid 1830s by the Apalachicola Land Company. The original plan, patterned after the City of Philadelphia, featured a one-mile square grid with a large central square and smaller squares surrounding it. Eac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AP8_the-legend-of-tates-hell_Carrabelle-FL.html
Jebediah Tate was a superstitious farmer that lived northwest of Carrabelle in Sumatra Florida. His only son was born just before the war and he named him Cebe. Jebediah was a Civil War veteran, and his wife was half Cherokee Indian. He bought 160…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AP7_marvin-n-justiss-building_Carrabelle-FL.html
Marvin N. Justiss was born November 16, 1898. He married Thelma Massey in Pensacola, Florida and moved to Carrabelle in 1929. They had one daughter, Virginia Justiss Sanborn. Marvin Justiss came to Carrabelle and began building both homes and comm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27N5_crooked-river-lighthouse-history_Carrabelle-FL.html
The Crooked River Lighthouse, built in 1895, replaced three lighthouses on Dog Island that over the years were destroyed by storms. The lightstation grounds originally included a house for both the Keeper and the Assistant Keeper, and several outb…
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/HM1WQU_chestnut-street-cemetery-of-early-apalachicola-historical_Apalachicola-FL.html
Chestnut Street Cemetery dates prior to 1831. Interred are some of Apalachicola's founders and molders of her colorful history. Also buried here are many soldiers of the Confederacy and victims of yellow fever and shipwrecks. Seven of the Confeder…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WQS_camp-gordon-johnston-historical_Carrabelle-FL.html
In June 1942 the U.S. War Department selected a 155,000 acre section of coastal Franklin County to be used as an amphibious warfare training center. Originally called Camp Carabelle, the base was renamed in January 1943 to honor the memory of Colo…