City: Port St. Joe   County: Gulf   Year: 1965
Location: Monument Ave.(U.S. 98)& 5th St. in 1st Union Bank

With completion of St. Joseph & Lake Wimico Railroad, 1836, movement of cotton to shipside at St. Joseph, from the foremost cotton producing territory in the world, began here, thence to domestic and foreign ports. As a result, the young village soon became metropolitan. For this extensive operation a large shipyard was established. Site recorded, Lieutenant L.M. Powell, Government Survey, St. Joseph Bay, 1841.

No image of shipyard found; this is a scan of a promisory note from the St. Joseph & Lake Wimico Railroad

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