Apalachicola Maritime Museum

Originally founded in 1995 with the Governor Stone, the Apalachicola Maritime Museum quickly became an icon for maritime heritage in Apalachicola. Maintenance and lack of adequate funding led to dissolution of the AMM in 2004 and departure of the Governor ...

Unearthing Florida: Apalachicola River

Flowing over 100 miles from the northern state line to the Gulf of Mexico meanders one of the most important waterways in Florida’s history: the Apalachicola River.

The Apalachicola River basin within Florida covers more area than the state of Connecticut ...

Apalachicola, FL

The town of Apalachicola, located about 80 miles southwest of Tallahassee at the mouth of the Apalachicola River, was named by an Act of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida in 1821. The area was valued because of ...

Trinity Episcopal Church-Apalachicola

This church is believed to be one of the first prefabricated buildings in Florida, having been prepared in New York andsent by ship to Apalachicola where it was assembled in 1837.

During the Civil War, it is reported that the ...

Apalachicola

By the time of the Civil War, Apalachicola was Florida's largest cotton port and the third largest cotton port on the entire Gulf of Mexico coast behind only New Orleans and Mobile. An active area for blockade running, Union naval ...

National Historic Landmark- Apalachicola Fort Site

The northernmost Spanish outpost on the Chattachoochee River, the wattle-and-daub blockhouse was completed in 1690 to prevent the English from gaining a foothold among the Lower Creek Indians, who had rejected Spanish missionaries and accepted English traders. The post was ...