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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EQR_first-united-methodist-church_Marianna-FL.html
Methodists first conducted services in this area in 1823, and organized Marianna's first church congregation on December 10, 1834. In 1838, the Methodists erected the town's first church building, a wooden structure facing east. In 1892 the congre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EQO_sylvania-plantation_Marianna-FL.html
Near this site stood "Sylvania", the plantation home of John Milton, Florida's Civil War governor, who settled in Jackson County in 1845. Milton's holdings consisted of over 2600 acres, a manor house, a school and family chapel, barns, blacksmith …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EQN_saint-luke-baptist-church_Marianna-FL.html
This African-American church was founded under a brush arbor on the banks of the Chipola River in August, 1867 under the leadership of Rev. Samuel Brown. Shortly after organizing, one of the members who owned a blacksmith shop allowed his shop to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EQM_the-abstract-office_Marianna-FL.html
The Abstract Office is the oldest business building in Marianna. Believed to have been built as his office in the 1840's by Dr. W.S. Wilson who died in 1868. Marianna's telephone exchange was established in 1801 and this building housed the Centra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EQL_jackson-county_Marianna-FL.html
On August 12, 1822, the year after the United States received possession of the Floridas, an Act of the Territorial Legislative Council divided West Florida into two counties — Jackson and Escambia. At that time, Jackson County included all …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EQK_battle-of-marianna_Marianna-FL.html
On September 27, 1864, Gen. Asboth's force of 700 Federal cavalry from Pensacola arrived in the Marianna area to forage and secure Negro recruits. Confederate forces of a few hundred home guardsmen barricaded the streets of Marianna and withstood …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EQJ_gilmore-academy-jackson-county-training-school_Marianna-FL.html
In 1922, Robert T. Gilmore (1879-1948), born in Monticello, founded Gilmore Academy, one of Jackson County's first African-American high schools. Trustees of Marianna's African-American community purchased this three-acre site in 1907 and raised…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EQI_the-holden-house_Marianna-FL.html
John de Roulhac and his wife, Martha Rasco, arrived in Jackson County in 1846. This house was built about that time. Their daughter, Clara, married Dr. Julius Holden here Sept. 22, 1859. Dr. Holden served in the Confederate Army. Legend says the h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EQH_the-hayes-long-mansion_Greenwood-FL.html
Built about 1840 by James Hayes, a man of vast real estate holdings. He was killed in a battle in North Georgia in 1863. The house stayed in the estate until 1885. It was owned by Ada and William Garrett, R.W. Coulette, S.V. Wall, and Hay Long Wal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EK7_first-presbyterian-church_Marianna-FL.html
Presbyterians first worshipped in Marianna, Florida in 1835. The First Presbyterian Church in Marianna was established by nine women and one man, Bryan Erwin, the first ruling elder. It is recorded that Mr. Erwin came to Jackson County from Scotla…