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St. Joseph, Florida. Coordinates: 29.853°N 85.3324°W. St. Joseph was a boomtown founded in 1835 on the shores of St. Joseph Bay that briefly became the largest community in Florida before being abandoned after less than eight years. A yellow fever epidemic in 1841 ended its brief period of prosperity and the abandoned remnants of the town ...
The St. Joseph Peninsula is located in Gulf County, Florida, in the Florida Panhandle, at coordinates 29°42′55″N 85°23′05″W. It is a 15-mile long spit, extending northward from Cape San Blas between the Gulf of Mexico to the west and St. Joseph Bay to the east. It is 6 miles west of Port St. Joe at its closest point.
1,750 acres (7.1 km 2) Established. 1967. Governing body. Florida Department of Environmental Protection. T.H. Stone Memorial St. Joseph Peninsula State Park is a Florida State Park on the St. Joseph Peninsula near Port St. Joe. It is located off U.S. 98 .
Port St. Joe has a library co-located with the senior citizens center, sheriff's office, courthouse, and animal shelter off State Road 71. The Florida Constitutional Convention of 1838 took place in the former town of St. Joseph, the site of which is now part of Port St. Joe. There is a museum and monument commemorating this event.
St. Joseph Bay. Coordinates: 29°48′04″N 85°20′31″W. St. Joseph Bay, Florida. Map of Florida, highlighting Gulf County. St. Joseph Bay is a bay on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The bay is located in Gulf County between Apalachicola and Panama City. Port St. Joe is located on St. Joseph Bay. St. Joseph Bay is bounded on ...
Coordinates: 28°22′33″N 82°17′12″W. Saint Joseph, commonly referred to as St. Joe, is an unincorporated community in Pasco County, Florida, United States. [1] It was originally settled as a German Catholic community. It is located in the northeastern part of Pasco County in Central Florida a few miles north of San Antonio and Saint ...
St. Joseph Sound. Coordinates: 28°07′11″N 82°48′37″W. St. Joseph Sound is a body of water on the Gulf of Mexico coast of Pasco and Pinellas counties. The sound lies between the mainland and Anclote Key, Three Rooker Island, and Honeymoon Island, from the north end of Anclote Key to the Dunedin Causeway.
St. Joseph Academy, founded in 1866, by the Sisters of St. Joseph, is the oldest continuously operating Catholic high school in Florida. 1874 marked the first “graduation”a class of 2! In 1876, the Academy was state chartered and in 1877 a boarding school for young women began.