Bagdad (Fla.)--History.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
King-Joyner Family Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: M1993-15
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1840-1981, primarily of the Joyner Family of Cahaba, Alabama, and Pensacola and Bagdad, Florida, including correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other materials of related families including Andrews, Grayson, King, Moyer, Parker, Shaddock, and Stearns. Includes records of the Bagdad Presbyterian Church, 1908-1936, by trustees C. H. Simpson and Mary Joyner, and materials on the Bagdad Post Office, 1896-1940 of which Mary was a Postmaster. Of special note is a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1867-1951; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1993
Snodgrass Collection
Collection — M1985-04SC
Identifier: M1985-04
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1891-9185, pertaining to the Snodgrass family of Bagdad, Florida including deeds and purchases of land, descriptions and drawing of home, visits of Florida Governors to the town, and related materials.
NOTE: Some of the items in the collection show the attempt to rename the town in the 1880s from Bagdad to Blackwater and back. Snodgrass property included purchases from the Bagdad Sash Factory Company.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1871-1985; Other: Date acquired: 07/00/1985
- University of West Florida Archives and West Florida History Center
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