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History: Gulf County Photos
Beekeepers at the Lanier Apiary-1930's
Workers checking paper at St. Joe Paper Company Mill-1959
The St. Joe Paper mill was owned by the DuPont interests. It was opened in 1938 at Port Saint Joe. The 600,000 cords of pulpwood used annually come from 750,000 acres of forest owned by the company. The output of the mill goes mostly into corrugated paper boxes. Photographed in December, 1959.
Reid Avenue, Port Saint Joe-1965
Monument for 1838 Constitutional Convention.
State Constitution Convention Monument, U.S. Highway number 98 at Port St. Joe, Florida, commemorates the assembly of the first Constitutional Convention of this State, 1838, and the birth of the State of Florida. Photo taken 1968.
St. Joe Lumber & Export Company engine number 104
Built 1887, Photographed July 1947.
St. Joseph's Cemetery-1960
The few remaining graves at Saint Joseph's Cemetery bear mute testimony to the yellow fever epidemic that hit the port in 1841. Within a few weeks three-fourths of the town had died. The remaining population fled and for three years the town was deserted. In 1844 a hurricane removed all the buildings in the town. Photographed in February, 1960
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