Bagdad Village Museum and Complex

Housed in the restored c.1886 New Providence Missionary Baptist Church building, the Bagdad Village Preservation Association Museum contains exhibits on local history including a Civil War exhibit with period artifacts and photographs.

www.bagdadvillage.org

Information Provided by Florida Department of State.

Bagdad Cemetery

This cemetery contains the remains of at least 15 Confederate and Union military veterans. Also buried here is Martin F. Bruce, a partner in the Bagdad shipbuilding firm of Ollinger and Bruce which, during the Civil War, was contracted to ...

Bagdad

When the Civil War began, Bagdad was an important West Florida center for the lumbering and naval stores industries with

a large lumber mill complex and a shipyard. In early 1862, the Confederate government began withdrawing troops from the

Pensacola ...

New Providence Missionary Baptist Church (Bagdad Museum Complex)

This church is among the oldest in Santa Rosa County. Carpenters who were sons of the pastor, the Rev. John Kelker, Sr., built the original church.

The current wood frame vernacular structure was built in 1901. Moved to its present ...

Milton/Bagdad

Milton and Bagdad have their roots planted in the forests of longleaf pines that once blanketed Northwest Florida. In 1830, Joseph Forsyth and the Simpson brothers constructed Arcadia Mill near present-day Milton, a nickname for Mill Town. Bagdad traces its ...

Bagdad Cemetery

Opened 1857 with burial of 3-year-old John Babcock, whose father Charles later gave tract to community. Other early burials were Civil War veteran John Haile and Col. C. C. Mason.

Leander, founded 1882 when railroad bypassed Bagdad, shares use of this ...

Bagdad

On this site once stood the town of "Bagdad"

Founded in the year of 1850

by pioneers Craven Lee and David Weed

Peak of population five hundred

Monument erected August 9, 1953 by

Mt. Bally Parlor No. 87 N.S.G.W.

Eltapome Parlor ...

Bagdad Cafe

Route 66 Roadside Attraction

Originally built in the 1950s, this world-famous restaurant was the location of the 1988 film, "Bagdad Cafe," which became the new name of the restaurant in 1995.

Marker is on National Trails Highway, on the right when traveling ...

Bagdad Copper Mine

Cypress Copper ? Bagdad Corporation

In memory of

WJ. Pace and J.M. Murphy

Who filed the Bagdad claim January 1, 1882;

John Lawler who patented the claim in

1889; and the Lincoln family who developed

the mine.

Marker is on Main Street (State Highway ...