"The Rich Heritage of Panama City Beach"
In The Rich Heritage of Panama City Beach and Communities of Bay County, you’ll read the first book on Panama City Beach and the way it went from a desolate unknown location to a thriving metropolis and year-round vacation land.You’ll follow the Indians when they were the beaches’ first tourists and learn about the discovery of an Old Spanish galleon that was buried deep in the sand. You’ll experience salt making at desolate Phillips Inlet and sites around the bay during the Civil War. Then you’ll learn about the homesteaders who staked their claims to pieces of gulf front, such as Manning Vickers, Harry Calley, Wallace Laird, J.T. Harper and Emory and John Hobbs.
Others willing to take a chance on the beautiful white sand were Hubert Brown, W.W. Sharpless, Gid Thomas, Claudia and Angus Pledger, J.B. Laird and M.E. McCorquodale.
You’ll read about early fishing then travel to the bottom of the gulf to the sunken Steamer Tarpon now Florida’s 6th underwater archaeological preserve.
Panama City Beach extends only about eight miles from near DeLuna Place on the west to about Joan Avenue on the east. The rest of the area is actually Bay County. But Panama City Beach is growing and annexations occur each year.
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