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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23CB_south-third-street-historic-district_Chipley-FL.html
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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E3F_falling-waters-state-park_Chipley-FL.html
Side 1: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 f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E3E_kudzu-developed-here_Chipley-FL.html
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, deep-roo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E3D_vernon-florida_Vernon-FL.html
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 December …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E3C_moss-hill_Vernon-FL.html
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 t…
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