The tall tool with a fin-shaped blade was discovered under the DeFuniak-Walton Library building. It was used to scrape the inside of a grain silo. [Donated by Dan Owens, then Head Librarian, Walton County Library System] [Accession No. 2012.19.1]
“Miss Madeleine” was purchased in Walton County and is one of several antique porcelain dolls in our collection. [Donated by Madeleine Varner] [Accession No. 2012.15.1]
Magnolias, 1989 [Donated by Susan Bishop] [Accession No. 2012.11.1] Porcelain Pitcher, 1994 [Donated by Susan Bishop] [Accession No. 2012.11.2]
This anchor was retrieved from Morrison Springs around 1958. It was most likely from a timber barge that went through the waterway decades before, perhaps in the 1880s. [Accession No. 2010-7-1: Donated by James Graves]
Anna and Melville Bissell patented the original hard floor sweeper in 1876. This model, the Parlor Queen, was last patented in 1906, so it was likely manufactured in the early 1900s. [Donated by William Holloway] [Accession No. 2010.6.1]
COMMERCIAL HOTEL, DeFuniak, Fla.–New management; newly furnished; free bath and sample rooms; good meals and good beds. Traveling men especially solicited. Rates $2 per day. Mrs. M. H. Stanley, Prop. . . . . . BROWN HOUSE–DeFuniak Springs. Good bed, airy rooms, elegant meals; free bath and sample rooms. Special… Continue reading
The manufacturing and bottling plant of the Hygeia Company to be erected in DeFuniak will be the fifteenth owned by that company in the south. The DeFuniak plant will equal in size the plants at Pensacola and Anniston, Ala. [Source: The Pensacola Journal, September 9, 1924, Page 2.]
Hygeia Works to Be Installed; Will Have Capacity of 1,200 Cases Daily. DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Sept 6 — (Special) The Hygeia, or Coca-Cola, people will put in a manufacturing and bottling plant in DeFuniak Springs. The Hygeia distributing plant for DeFuniak the eastern part of the city, and the Springs and… Continue reading
In June of 1903 L. G. Crosby became sole owner of the new Pensacola Coca Cola franchise. In September of that year he produced the first bottle of Coca Cola in the Pensacola plant. By 1924 Crosby had succeeded in running this competitors out of business and was the only… Continue reading
This stately residence was built by master craftsman William Dreyer for Kenneth Bruce, the son of Wallace Bruce who was a founder of the Florida Chautauqua. When the Bruce family lived there, it was used for entertaining visiting Chautauqua celebrities. For many years, the extensive collection of armor collected by… Continue reading
