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Port St. Joe Area
Click on the numbered site to learn more. Port St. Joe began in 1904 two miles west of the old City of St. Joseph when T.H. Stone came from Iola, built a small cabin and began turpentining the virgin forests around the bay. With the coming of the railroad in 1909, the town-originally known as Indian Pass-grew rapidly: the waterfront became a place of delight for all ages, and a bustling commercial port was soon exporting lumber and other products around the world. The Calhoun Lumber Company Mill and the Pogy Plant drew workers to the new town. In 1938, the opening of the St. Joe Paper Company Mill transformed the town. Today the town is once again being transformed by St. Joe. TOUR SITES
Located at the corner of Clifford Sims Pkwy. and Hwy. 71. Site of a wondrous waterfront playground for young and old alike early in the 20th century. 
Her engine block can be seen from the boat basin at Frank Pate Park except at high tide. Named for Steptoe Irene Rice of Apalachicola, the Miss Steppie was purchased by T.H. Stone to transport turpentine from his still to the processing plant in Pensacola. 
Built in 1937 and home to Captain Fred and Zola Maddox for more than 60 years, the house is now headquarters for the Chamber of Commerce. 
Completed in 1999, contains 128 wet slips, 79 dry storages, a ship store, and a dockside cafe. Between 1910 and 1963, the site of a bustling commercial port. 
On May 18, 1947, the last day in the old church, the congregation sang "As the Saints Go Marching In" as they marched to the newly constructed church on Ave C. The church was organized in 1907. 
Moved to its present location from Quincy, Florida, in 1929. The first Knights of Pythias Lodge was Indian Pass Lodge # 77, organized in 1912. 
Built in 1938 by Damon P. Peters, Sr., as a General Merchandise store, it is now owned by Nathan Peters, Jr., and was remodeled in 2005. 
David W. Jones (1923 - 1976) was the beloved head coach and physical education instructor at George Washington High School for many years. 
Built in the late 1950s, this building replaced the old wooden building built in 1910 and was the depot and offices for the Apalachicola Northern Railroad Company. Today the building houses the offices of the St. Joe Company. 
Last remaining section house, built between 1910 and 1912 for Apalachicola Northern Railroad workers. 
Housed the post office between 1920 and 1960. Henry A. Drake served as the postmaster. 
Previously owned by John Roberts and Margaret M. Smith, the building has been remodeled and is now Sisters' Restaurant. 
The largest and most stylish building in downtown Port St. Joe, the Port Theatre opened in 1938. 
Built in 1949 by Alabama Construction Company; architects, Norman P. Gross & Associates. Serves as Port St. Joe City Hall. 
Second house built in the 1930s by Postmaster Henry A. Drake. 
The first house built by Henry Drake, it is now home to current owner Mazie Stone, grandaughter of T.H. Stone, the founder of Port St. Joe. 
The original Port Inn was built in 1907. From its spacious veranda a boardwalk extended through the park and out into the bay. 
Designed by architect Bryan Duncan and built in 1939 as the local residence for Jessie Ball duPont, the wife of Alfred I. duPont. 
Built in 1918 or 1919 by a couple from New York and first occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Max Kilbourn, owners of the ice plant and a fishing business. 
One of the earliest houses in Port St. Joe, this largely unaltered, four square frame vernacular house was built in 1912 for Asbury Morgan Jones of the Apalachicola Northern Railroad. 
Erected in 1925 of locally milled lumber, this outstanding example of frame vernacular architecture and craftmanship is the oldest church building in Port St. Joe. 
Bryon W. Eells, Sr., came to Port St. Joe in 1913 as Vice President and General Manager of the Apalachicola Northern Railroad Company. 
Built in 1937 by the Works Project Administration to commemorate the drafting and signing of Florida's first Constitution. 
1917 steam engine used by the St. Joseph Lumber and Export Company. 
Opened in 1955, the museum depicts the brief but momentous history of St. Joseph, Florida's Constitution City. 
Erected at a cost of $10,000 in 1922 to commemorate the signing of Florida's first Constitution. 
Many persons interred here, including ministers, lawyers, doctors, teachers, delegates to the convention, were victims of Yellow Fever. 
The largest and most expensive house built in 1937-38 by J.E. Harlow and J.L. Miller. 
Pete Comforter, a native of Apalachicola, purchased this building for Comforter Funeral Home in 1947. 
Built between 1907 and 1910 and home for many years to George M. Johnson, engineer with the Apalachicola Northern Railroad, and his family. 
Built in the 1940s, this building was home to Port St. Joe's first bank, Florida Bank. 
Many of the houses on Blossom Row were constructed by the Parkwood Lumber Company for their workers in the 1910s. 
In 1910 the Calhoun Lumber Company began construction of a saw mill in Port St. Joe to cut high-grade cypress and longleaf pine. 
In 1936, Port St Joe was transformed by the St. Joe Paper Company and its subsidiary, the St. Joe Land and Development Company. 
In 1938 the St. Joe Lumber and Export Company constructed a large sawmill on an oak ridge facing the canal from the St. Joe Paper Company. |
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