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Cape San Blas Light. Port St. Joe is located in southern Gulf County at (29.807968, –85.297684), [8] within the Florida Panhandle and along the Emerald According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.1 square miles (31.3 km 2), of which 9.5 square miles (24.5 km 2) is land and 2.6 square miles (6.8 km 2), or 21.86%, is water.
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St. Joseph was a boomtown founded in 1835 on the shores of St. Joseph Bay that briefly became the largest community in Florida before being abandoned after less than eight years. A yellow fever epidemic in 1841 ended its brief period of prosperity and the abandoned remnants of the town were destroyed by a storm surge in 1844.
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Gulf County, created in 1925, was named for the Gulf of Mexico. Wewahitchka was its first county seat and the 1927 Gulf County Courthouse is still in existence. In 1965 the county seat was moved to Port Saint Joe, which under its original name Saint Joseph, had been the site of Florida's first Constitutional Convention in 1838.
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The St. Joseph Catholic Mission Church (also known as the Port St. Joe Garden Club) is a historic site in Port St. Joe, Florida, located at 216 8th Street. On July 31, 1998, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places .
Constitution Convention Museum State Park is a Florida State Park located just outside Port St. Joe, off US 98, in northwestern Florida.The 14-acre (57,000 m 2) park contains a museum with examples of 19th-century life in the former town of St. Joseph, and features life-sized figures with audio presentations about the state's first Constitutional Convention.