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Historic Florida Maps from the Cognetta Family Trust
Peter Cowdry will show and speak about Historic Florida Maps at C-Quarters in Carrabelle. The event is co-sponsored by the Carrabelle History Museum.
Partially funded by the Franklin County Tourist Development Council
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Camp Gordon Johnston Museum works to identify African-American WWII heroes
February is a special month at Camp Gordon Johnston Museum in Carrabelle, as the museum honors the African-American men and women who served in the military during World War Two.
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CARRABELLE, Fla. (WTXL) â February is a special month at Camp Gordon Johnston Museum in Carrabelle, as the museum honors the African-American men and women who served in the military during World War II. I like the things I learn and the things I hear, said Sharon Rider, who is on staff at the museum. Especially the people who have relatives who were in World War II and they tell their stories.
Chasing Shadows: Gibson Road family rooted In agriculture
by Pam Richardson Guest Columnist
Our local farmers markets and residents would jump for joy if it were possible to bring Apalachicola plantsman Thomas Cameron Gibson back among us. We are accustomed to thinking that the forward march of time brings progress, but in some cases people were better off in the past, and this is certainly true in regard to the availability of locally cultivated produce in the Apalachicola area.
Thomas was born in 1857 in Long Cane (near LaGrange), Georgia, one of nine children of Osbourn and Amarintha (“Minnie”) Gibson. A decade later, the Gibson family were living in the north Alabama boomtown of Bluffton where Osbourn worked first as wholesale grocer and then as a farmer. Something, however, led them to move again, this time to Apalachicola where, after Osbourn’s death in 1884, Thomas followed in his father’s footsteps and established himself as a farmer – and an extraordinary one at
Islanders unveil proposal for incorporation
The Apalachicola Times
Carrabelle in 1881 became the second town in Franklin County, Apalachicola had incorporated itself 50 years before that.
By the end of 2022, St. George island could become the third, by a vote of the people, in a free and fair election.
That is, if a working group of island residents, focused on the subject for a while now, offer a convincing case for doing so.
“We are a fairly good-sized group of individuals living on the island with various backgrounds and levels of experience. We are not affiliated with any existing group, said Julie Krontz, a spokesperson for the group.
Doing the right thing
The Apalachicola Times
Franklin County distinguished itself Monday with its annual Martin Luther King Day celebration by having it, live and in-person.
With the rest of the Panhandle either going entirely virtual, or as in Tallahassee, postponing their event due to possible protests, Apalachicola staged a motorcade, complete with golf carts, bikes and those walking the route, and an outdoor service in which everyone stood, making the event one of the most physically active MLK Day celebrations in the 34 years in which it has been held in the county seat.
Organizer Dolores Croom said the local event’s founder, Apostle Shirley White, had suggested a scaled-down version of the celebration, which in recent years has meant a large gathering at the Fort Coombs Armory.