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Wewahitchka Area
Click on the numbered site to learn more. In the early 1800s farmers began coming into the territory seeking the fertile land along the Apalachicola River. Several large farms were established, and groves of cold hardy Satsuma oranges were planted. The town of Iola developed with the coming of the railroad in 1839 and disappeared along with St. Joseph early in the 1840s. People began moving to what was to become Wewahitchka in the 1870s. The Reverend John W. Richards is credited with naming the town after an Indian word meaning water eyes for the town's two lakes. By the late 1800s, several families had begun establishing apiaries in the tupelo swamps along the river, and Chipola Lake (now Dead Lakes) became a popular fishing and hunting resort for wealthy men from Georgia and Alabama. TOUR SITES
Built between 1930 and 1935 in Southern Georgian style by a one-legged man from Donaldson, Georgia. 
Consecrated in 1903 as St. Johns Episcopal; built in Carpenter Gothic Revival Style by skilled craftsman Francis Rummel. 
Built by W. H. Taylor in 1927, two years after Gulf County was established from a portion of Calhoun County. 
Eighty square miles of some of the best freshwater fishing in the nation. 
Built in 1902 by James Franklin Rish, Sr., the Honey House was used to extract honey for over 100 years by three generations of Rishes. This house was recnetly moved to the Panhandle Pioneer Settlement in Blountstown, FL. 
In 1823, occupied by famous Indian chief John Blount before he was removed to Blountstown. 
Named for the boy Jehu Richards who hid in the vicinity after surviving an Indian massacre.
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