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History Collection
History of Laurel Hill
by Mark Curenton
The Laurel Hill area attracted
some of the earliest settlers once Florida became part of the United
States in 1821. Two years later an Army captain surveying the route for a
road across Florida mentioned the “Scotch Settlement” on the Yellow
Water River. In 1827 John Lee Williams, in describing the Yellow Water
River, stated, “There is a very good settlement of industrious farmers
on this river, forty miles above the bay.” 
Cemetery Record Archive
with headstone photographs
has carefully
inventoried Almarante Cemetery (Laurel Hill) and Magnolia Cemetery (South
of Laurel Hill) and has graciously allow us to publish the records and
photographs here for historians and genealogists.
Almarante
Cemetery Record Archive
History of Almarante
Cemetery by Tracey Curenton
Magnolia Cemetery Record
Archive
Daniel Campbell & Effie McLean Descendants
and Other Connections
Excerpts from the November 1982 booklet by Mayme
Tyner and Mayme Pearl Tyner, Laurel Hill, FL 32567-8236
Copy
of booklet contributed to LaurelHillNow by
Index
Forward - by
Mayme Tyner
Campbell Family History and
article on Daniel Campbell from the Pensacola Gazette of December 10, 1842
Daniel
Campbell of Skye Isle, Scotland - from newspaper clipping
A little
history in connection to Laurel, Hill Florida - some sections written
by Ferrin C. Campbell
Josephine Baggett &
Honest John Campbell -
a quiet, small man in stature with large or prominent ears and wore a
beard stained with tobacco juice...
Country Living in the early
1900s -
Mack and Effie Tyner lived on what could well have been called
"The Back Forty." Our music, particularly at night, was...
James Campbell -
born November 26, 1890, married Pauline Polly Spears...
Miscellany
Laurel Hill High School
Photo Archive
About
Pearl Tyner
"Doc" Cadenhead remembers
Legendary
roots?
If you have an interesting
story about your grandfather and how he helped tame the wild, wild, Laurel
Hill frontier, we would like to post it here. We are especially interested
in stories about the original Laurel Hill settlers: Atwell, Clary, Jones,
Laird, Richbourg, Stokes, Tucker, Cobb, Fountain, Campbell, Hart, Moore,
Whitehurst, and others.
Laurel
Hill in the News
Rebuilding
a downtown treasure -
from the News
Bulletin, May 14,
2004
Remembering
a century of history
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from the News
Bulletin
Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church
to celebrate 100th anniversary
- By Peggy
May, The Northwest Florida Daily News, April 18, 1998
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