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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Washington County, Florida
Adjacent to Washington County, Florida
▶ Bay County (13) ▶ Holmes County (4) ▶ Jackson County (30) ▶ Walton County (14)
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| On State Park Road 0.6 miles south of Jouner Road, on the left when traveling west. |
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Park development started in 1963 on this hill, which has an elevation of 322 feet and a limestone base. A stream flowing from the hill plunges over a cliff and disappears through an underground channel. Some sinks and caverns are near the falls, . . . — — Map (db m73295) HM |
| On West Jackson Avenue (U.S. 90) at West Boulevard, on the right when traveling west on West Jackson Avenue. |
| | Kudzu, brought to this country from Asia as an ornamental, was developed near here in the early part of the Twentieth Century and given to the world as a soil-saving, high-protein forage plant by Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Pleas. The fast-growing, . . . — — Map (db m73294) HM |
| On South 3rd Street at Jackson Avenue (U.S. 90), on the right when traveling south on South 3rd Street. |
| | Designated a Historic District in 1989. This street is one of the first residential areas in Chipley. Though a railroad town in the beginning, Chipley was, and remains primarily an agricultural center. Notable due to the array of late 19th & 20th . . . — — Map (db m110516) HM |
| On Moss Hill Road (County Road 279) 3.6 miles south of Main Street (State Road 79), on the right when traveling south. |
| | Early settlers, attracted by the fertile Coosada (later Holmes) Old Fields, established a log schoolhouse Methodist mission near here soon after Spain ceded Florida to the United Stated in 1820. The first Methodist ministerial assignment between the . . . — — Map (db m73292) HM |
| On Holmes Valley Road 0.2 miles east of Reno Road, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Washington County was a center for Native American activity for thousands of years and became the scene of military action during the Creek War of 1813-1814 & First Seminole War of 1817-1818. A Red Stick chief named Holms (Holmes) left Alabama . . . — — Map (db m148539) HM |
| On Main Street (State Road 79) at Roche Avenue (State Road 277), on the right when traveling north on Main Street. |
| | In the 1820s, settlers arrived in the area around present-day Vernon. One of the earliest was Stephen J. Roche who built a trading post on Holmes Creek and called it “Roche’s Bluff.” The town of Vernon developed near the trading post. On . . . — — Map (db m73293) HM |
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