Carrabelle History Museum in Franklin County, Florida

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Franklin County attraction

Carrabelle History Museum

Franklin County · Panhandle & Emerald Coast

A free town museum on Avenue B covering Apalachee artifacts, the sponge and shrimp trades, the SS Tarpon and the legend of Tate's Hell.

ABOUT THIS PLACE

The Carrabelle History Museum sits at 106 Southeast Avenue B in downtown Carrabelle and tells the story of this town from prehistory forward. Its earliest room holds Apalachee artifacts going back more than 2,000 years, along with Civil War material, railroad history and fossils, and makes the case that Carrabelle's deep-water harbor made it a trading port long before Europeans came. A family and community room carries pioneer photographs, genealogy records, high school memorabilia and sports trophies from the 1930s onward, and pieces from businesses people still remember, such as Burda's Drug Store and the White Kitchen Cafe. The working life room is the one that explains the town: shrimp nets, oyster tongs and a sponge diver's helmet from the seafood, logging and naval stores trades. Another room honors local people, among them the baseball figure Buck O'Neil, and veterans from the First World War through Vietnam. Special exhibits have covered the steamship SS Tarpon, which sank in 1937, and the legend and the reality of Tate's Hell. Admission is free and donations are welcome. It opens Wednesday and Sunday from noon to 5, and Thursday through Saturday from 10 to 5

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