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St. Andrew Bay was the location of a large number of saltworks critical for the Confederacy during the American Civil War.Edward Crissey, in command of the steamboat USS Bloomer, which he had been instrumental in stealing from her berth near Geneva, Alabama, helped destroy numerous salt works, doing great damage to the Confederate war effort.
St. Andrews State Park is a 1,200-acre (4.9 km 2) Florida State Park located three miles (5 km) east of Panama City Beach Florida, off U.S. 98. It is the headquarters of one of the state's five AmeriCorps Florida State Parks chapters.
Bay County was established from Washington County in 1913 and named for St. Andrew Bay, which borders the county. During World War II, Panama City developed as a shipbuilding and industrial center. [1]
Bay County: 005: Panama City: 1913: Calhoun and Washington: St. Andrew's Bay, the central geographic feature of the county: 249.70 190,769: 764 sq mi (1,979 km 2) Bradford County: 007: Starke: 1858: Columbia named New River until 1861: Richard Bradford, the first officer from Florida to die in the Civil War; he was killed during the Battle of ...
Bay County is a county on the Emerald Coast in Northwest Florida. As of the 2020 census , the population was 175,216. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Panama City . [ 2 ]
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bay County, Florida. ... St. Andrew School. August 14, 1997 3001 West 15th Street ...
A satellite image showing Hurricane Andrew bearing down on the Atlantic coast of Florida in late August of 1992. (NOAA) Thirty years have passed since Hurricane Andrew dealt a catastrophic blow to ...
The Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railroad (reporting mark ASAB), also known as the Bay Line, was a Class I railroad which operated in Alabama and Florida.The company was founded in 1906 and opened its mainline between Dothan, Alabama, and Panama City, Florida, in 1908.