This is the only known reference to a “national health and sanitary convention” being held in DeFuniak Springs in March 1886. This item appeared in Western Kansas World on January 16, 1886. [Contributed by Robert Daniel]
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Chautauqua Hotel Advertisement
These advertisements for the Chautauqua Hotel appeared in the Pensacola Commercial. The date of the ad above was December 3, 1884, before the first Florida Chautauqua Assembly. The date of the ad shown below appears to be March 8, 1885. [Contributed by Robert Daniel]
Continue readingStreet Fair in DeFuniak Springs
The Billboard was a weekly magazine published in Cincinnati, Ohio, that listed events across the country. The following listing for DeFuniak Springs appeared under the heading “Street Fairs and Carnivals” in the issue for September 15, 1900. A similar listing appeared in 1901, showing the dates for the street fair
Continue readingState Senator Johnnie Wright
From “Today in Florida History” on Jacksonville.com, a blog of The Florida Times-Union: Nov. 2nd, 1948 Johnnie Wright of DeFuniak Springs was elected to the Florida State Sentate on this date. Wright, age 23 years and 7 months, was one of two members of the Senate at this young age.
Continue readingTobacco Exposition
The only known reference to the South Atlantic and Gulf States Tobacco Exposition held in DeFuniak Springs in 1885 appears in The National Tribune (Washington, D.C.), December 31, 1885: [Contributed by Robert Daniel]
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