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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23BF_freeport-masonic-hall_Freeport-FL.html
Herman Lodge No. 108 F.&A.M. was chartered January 16, 1889 in DeFuniak Springs and originally met in a structure in the area of Freeport known as "Tucker Town". On June 19, 1901, the lodge building burned down and was replaced with this structure…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VR1_eod-memorial-historical_Niceville-FL.html
EOD
Memorial
Dedicated to those
who gave their lives
in the performance of duty
1970
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HQL_gulf-cemetery_Santa-Rosa-Beach-FL.html
Gulf Cemetery was established circa 1910 when the town of Santa Rosa was established on Hogtown Bayou. The town's first families began to bury their loved ones at this site, the area's highest elevation with a view of the Gulf of Mexico. The cemet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E3B_eucheeanna-community_Ponce-De-Leon-FL.html
Eucheeanna, the first Scottish settlement in territorial Florida, was named in honor of the Euchee Indians. Tradition holds that the first slave child was born in the settlement. Eucheeanna consisted of a school, court house, jail, Masonic and Odd…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E3A_cosson-family-tragedy_Defuniak-Springs-FL.html
In 1936, James Marvin Cosson Sr. moved his family to this location about one-half mile east of the Eglin Army Airfield to have more land to farm and to provide for his wife, Annie Bell Cosson, and their four children. During World War II, Eglin Ai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14X6_walton-defuniak-library_Defuniak-Springs-FL.html
The Walton-DeFuniak Library opened during the first decade of the existence of the town of DeFuniak Springs. This community originated in the early 1880's as a station on the new Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad. The town was named for Frederick de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM112T_alfords-mill_Westville-FL.html
Near this location, Marion Alford established in 1864 a water-powered grist mill that became the focal point of a small farming community that developed in this area of north Walton County. Archaeological remains of the mill dam and foundations st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM112S_euchee-valley-presbyterian-church-and-cemetery_Defuniak-Springs-FL.html
This is the site of one of Florida's oldest organized Presbyterian Church which was the largest Presbyterian Church in Florida until 1885. On May 27, 1827, the Reverend Murdoch Murphy of the Alabama Synod presided with one Elder, Donald McLean, Sr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM112R_knox-hill-academy_Ponce-De-Leon-FL.html
The Knox Hill Academy, a boarding school, was founded in 1848 by the Rev. John Newton (April 22, 1814 - Nov. 21, 1871), who was also the head master and a Presbyterian minister. It was first located near a spring northeast of the Morrison Place on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRJW_eden_Santa-Rosa-Beach-FL.html
Side A"Who loves a garden, still his ?Eden' keeps." Amos Bronson Alcott The estate was bought in 1963 by Lois Genevieve Maxon, who planned the gardens which enhance the lovely natural setting and restored the mansion in antebellum style. Built in …