On Avenue E (U.S. 98) at 7th Street, on the right when traveling west on Avenue E.
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 . . . — — Map (db m101138) HM
On 6th Street at Avenue D, on the left when traveling south on 6th Street.
Dr. John Gorrie (1803-1855) was an early pioneer in the invention of the artificial manufacture of ice, refrigeration, and air conditioning. He was granted the first U.S. patent for mechanical refrigeration on May 6, 1851 (U.S. Patent No. 8080). Dr. . . . — — Map (db m27028) HM
On 4th Street at Avenue D, on the right when traveling east on 4th Street.
The Franklin Guards, a company of Infantry organized in Apalachicola in 1884 by J. H. Coombs and Fred Betterfield, erected the first building in the city to be used solely as an armory in 1898. Made of simulated brick, it was located at the corner . . . — — Map (db m26120) HM
On Market Street (U.S. 98) at Forbes Street, on the right when traveling north on Market Street.
Named for Benjamin Franklin, the county was created in 1832. Apalachicola, the county seat, which dates back to the times of the Creek Indians, was an important center for cotton trade. The county is noted for agriculture, timber, livestock and sea . . . — — Map (db m101140) HM
On 6th Street at Avenue L, on the right when traveling west on 6th Street.
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. Each . . . — — Map (db m121998) HM
On 5th Street at Avenue E (U.S. 98), on the right when traveling north on 5th Street.
First United Methodist Church of Apalachicola was established in 1839 when Reverend Peter Haskew was appointed to serve the St. Joseph and Apalachicola Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The original sanctuary, built and dedicated . . . — — Map (db m26393) HM
On Avenue E (U.S. 98) at 6th Street, on the right when traveling west on Avenue E.
This classical Greek Revival style house served as the residence of Dr. Alvan Wentworth Chapman, physician, scientist, and eminent botanist, whose research and writings on the flora of the South received international recognition. Born in 1809 in . . . — — Map (db m101139) HM
On Avenue E (U.S. 98) at Battery Park Lane, on the right when traveling west on Avenue E.
This classical Greek Revival style house served as the residence of Dr. Alvan Wentworth Chapman, physician, scientist, and eminent botanist, whose research and writings on the flora of the South received international recognition. Born in 1809 in . . . — — Map (db m154205) HM
On 5th Street at Avenue F, on the left when traveling north on 5th Street.
Constructed ca. 1845, the Hanserd-Fry House is one of Apalachicola's finest examples of Palladian Greek Revival style architecture. The well-preserved house features a symmetrical porch with Tuscan classical columns typical of the Greek Revival . . . — — Map (db m100891) HM
On Market Street at Avenue F, on the left when traveling north on Market Street.
During the 1830's, when the cotton port of Apalachicola was rapidly expanding, David G. Raney built a rather plain, Federal style house at this site. Around 1850, A two - story portico and other features of the then popular Greek Revival . . . — — Map (db m26663) HM
On 6th Street south of Chestnut Street (State Road 98), on the right when traveling north.
This original structure of white pine had previously been cut into sections in New York and floated by sailing vessel down the Atlantic Coast and around the Florida keys before it was erected on this site.
This parish was first organized in . . . — — Map (db m27026) HM
On Water Street, 0.1 miles north of Avenue D, on the right when traveling north.
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History records the first shipment of cotton to leave this Port, arrived New York, 1822.
Beginning 1836, forty-three, three-storied brick, Cotton Warehouses and Brokerages lined Apalachicola's water front. Their granite-columned . . . — — Map (db m101141) HM
On Northwest Avenue A (U.S. 98/319) at Tallahassee Street, on the right when traveling west on Northwest Avenue A.
The Carabelle Town Center was once part of the Franklin Lumber Company mill site owned by James Coombs, which operated along the north shore of the Carrabelle River from 1875 to 1928. Ships came from around the world seeking cypress timber, . . . — — Map (db m190602) HM
On U.S. 98/319, 0.2 miles west of Beacon Street, on the right when traveling west.
With the approach of World War II, amphibious warfare training centers were hurriedly built. Camp Carrabelle opened in September 1941. Construction began in July 1942 and the camp was renamed in honor of Colonel Gordon Johnston (1874-1934), a highly . . . — — Map (db m100897) HM
Near U.S. 98 at Cape Street, on the left when traveling east.
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 . . . — — Map (db m117427) HM
On Avenue B South (Business U.S. 98) east of Marine Street, on the right when traveling west.
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 . . . — — Map (db m121999) HM
On Avenue B South (Business U.S. 98) east of Marine Street, on the right when traveling west.
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 . . . — — Map (db m122000) HM
In late 1943, Carrabelle Beach and Dog Island, while they were a part of Camp Gordon Johnston, were used by the US Army 4th Infantry Division to train for the Normandy Invasion on D-Day, June 6th, 1944. The Amphibious Training Center had been . . . — — Map (db m16847) HM
On Avenue A N (St. James Avenue) (U.S. 98) west of Tallahassee Street (Marine Street), on the right when traveling west.
Carrabelle, Florida Home of the… World’s Smallest Police Station
In 1947, Albin Westberg became Police Chief and the only day policeman in Carrabelle. He and his night officers had to protect the citizens, answer calls, pump water for . . . — — Map (db m131800) HM
On Oak Street at Kansas Street, on the left when traveling west on Oak Street.
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 . . . — — Map (db m101177) HM
During a storm in 1799, the schooner Fox ran aground off the eastern end of St. George Island. On board was William Augustus Bowles, a British citizen and self-styled leader of the Creek-Cherokee nation. Bowles was bringing gunpowder and bullets, he . . . — — Map (db m52650) HM
Near Forest Road 127, 4 miles west of State Road 65, on the right when traveling south.
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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 . . . — — Map (db m114624) HM
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, . . . — — Map (db m114623) HM
Near Forest Road 129, 4 miles west of State Road 65.
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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, . . . — — Map (db m116355) HM
Near Forest Road 127, 0.8 miles south of Fort Gadsden Road, on the left when traveling south.
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 the . . . — — Map (db m114622) HM
