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23937 Panama City Beach Pkwy. 30°16′21″N 85°59′35″W / 30.272374°N 85.993037°W / 30.272374; -85.993037 ( Camp Helen Historic Panama City Beach
Panama City Beach had a population of 18,094 at the time of the 2020 census, up from 12,018 in 2010. [4] Panama City Beach's slogan is "The World's Most Beautiful Beaches" due to the unique, [5] sugar-white sandy beaches of the Florida Panhandle.
Confederate monument, downtown Hemming Park (1898) [173] [32]: 34 "The president of Jacksonville City Council, Anna Lopez Brosche, called for all Confederate monuments to be moved from city property to a museum. The most prominent Confederate memorial in Jacksonville is a statue of a Confederate soldier that sits atop a towering pillar in ...
US 98 runs east–west through the city itself, leading southeast 24 miles (39 km) to Mexico Beach and west 10 miles (16 km) to Panama City Beach. The two main north–south thoroughfares in the city are Martin Luther King Boulevard, otherwise known as SR 77 and US 231. SR 77 leads north six miles (9.7 km) to the Panama City suburb of Lynn Haven.
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.
The Putnam County Confederate Memorial was erected in 1924 by the Patton Anderson Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy. [1] On August 25, 2020, the Putnam County Commissioners voted 4–1 to remove it.
Pacific Mail Steamship Company ship operating between Panama City and ports along the coast of Central America in 1864 when it was the target of a Confederate Navy attempt to seize it. SS San Salvador (?–1864–?): Pacific Mail Steamship Company ship operating from Panama City in 1864 when it was the target of a Confederate Navy attempt to ...
Florida participated in the American Civil War as a member of the Confederate States of America.It had been admitted to the United States as a slave state in 1845. In January 1861, Florida became the third Southern state to secede from the Union after the November 1860 presidential election victory of Abraham Lincoln.