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Southwest Gulf County Area
Click on the numbered site to learn more. With its lagoons, sugar white sand beaches, high dunes, sand pine scrub, and palm hammocks, southwest Gulf County is among the loveliest places on earth. Here the Gautier family established a plantation during the days of St. Joseph. During the Civil War a major confederate saltworks was built from bricks salvaged from the abandoned town of St. Joseph. In the 1890s, the Maddoxes ran cattle on the rich grass at the head of the bay. J.T. McNeill began a turpentine operation at Indian Pass in 1903, and in 1951 Money Bayou became the first black-owned beach property in Florida. TOUR SITES
Terminus of the short-lived (1836-1839), 9-mile St. Joseph and Lake Wimico Railroad, the first steam-operated railroad in Florida. 
In 1903, James T. McNeill came to Indian Pass, then known as the Lagoon, from Wewahitchka to turpentine a track of 13,000 acres. 
After midnight in the spring of 1951, Damon P. Peters, Sr., and others purchased 30 acres of beachfront property. For the first time, black families were able to enjoy the beach without intimidation from whites. 
Site of a major Confederate saltworks, with brick foundations salvaged from ruins of St. Joseph. 
One of five lighthouses (1838, 1847, 1856, 1859, and 1885) on Cape San Blas. 
Opened in 1967 and named for the founder of Port St. Joe, with miles of sugar white sand beaches, high dunes, and sand pine scrub. 
Charles and Joe Stebel, two early White City residents, constructed the building around 1930 as a hunting and fishing lodge. 
This 28-mile roadroad (the longest in Territorial Florida) was completed in 1839 at a cost of $300,000. |
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