This post follows Part 1 on the 19th Century financial panics and their impact on Florida. The first two, The Panic of 1837 and the Panic of 1857 were both covered here. We turn now to 1873. Reconstruction was still in force in the South and would be until close to the end of this … Continue reading Florida and the 19th Century “Panics”: 1837, 1857, 1873 and 1893, Part 2
The Depression
The Shadow Occupation in the Florida Panhandle – Ancestors Bootlegging for Fun and Profit
Sooner or later if you study and/or write about America, the South, or the Florida panhandle, you will likely find references to the making of moonshine. I did not have to find my first reference to this once shadowy endeavor, my grandfather spent a year in the Atlanta Penitentiary after being picked up for his … Continue reading The Shadow Occupation in the Florida Panhandle – Ancestors Bootlegging for Fun and Profit
The Great Depression: The Experiences of Samuel and Nealie Bell Nichols Marsh
Researching to Tell A Story I am an advocate for doing an expansive form of family history. Not just researching, documenting and identifying your direct ancestors, but researching and identifying all of the family of your direct ancestors AND researching and understanding the historical patterns that they likely experienced and how they may have reacted … Continue reading The Great Depression: The Experiences of Samuel and Nealie Bell Nichols Marsh
Escambia Farms: An Early Local Effort at a Planned Community
It was 1935 and the country was deep into the worst economic depression it had faced in a very long time. Florida had actually gotten an early start with one of its perennial land booms and busts in the 1920s. Followed by the bank failures and the stock market crash of 1929, folks in the … Continue reading Escambia Farms: An Early Local Effort at a Planned Community
Northwest Florida History & Genealogy 