Welcome to the Tour Gulf County web site

We invite you to travel back in time, to visit places that have shaped the spirit and history of Gulf County since the city of St. Joseph, the site of the First Constitutional Convention, flourished here in the 1830s. In southwest Gulf County, travel along scenic 30A to Indian Pass, famous for its oyster bar and once a thriving turpentine operation, on to the Cape San Blas Lighthouse with its restored keepers' quarters. In Port St. Joe walk down Reid Avenue, the commercial heart of the town for nearly a century. Travel north to Wewahitchka, home to beekeepers producing world-renowned tupelo honey. Listen to George Core recount the heyday of new Iola when wealthy sportsmen came to fish and hunt and to Billy Dixson recall holidays at Money Bayou, one of the first black-owned beach resorts in Florida.

Brochures of existing sites may be downloaded and printed. On this site we have soon also include a virtual historical tour of several places no longer evident on the landscape-the Pogy Plant, the "Yellow Dog," Blossom Row, Kenney's Mill, and the St. Joe Paper Company mill.

Touring the sites should be accomplished by walking or driving - Please respect the privacy of owners who have graciously allowed their properties to be included on the tour.

Materials on this site were developed by the Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center, Florida State University in cooperation with the Gulf County Genealogical Society and the St. Joseph Historical Society. Financed in part with historic preservation grant assistance provided by the Bureau of Historic Preservation, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State, assisted by the Florida Historical Commission.