Histories

• 1885 Webb's Florida - Taylor County
• 1911-1912 Polk's Directory
• 1921 Report of the State of the State
• 1935 Bench and Bar
• Biographies
  • Cash, William T.
  • Culpepper, Cincinnatus T.
  • Culpepper, John O.
  • Hardee, Cary A.
  • Hendry, Robert M.
  • Morse, Gladys A.
• Businesses
  • Bloodworth Drug Company
  • Suwannee Grocery Store
• Carbur
• Postmasters/Postmistresses
• Schools
  • Boyd School
  • Carbur School
  • 1950-51 Staff

Historical Review

Taylor county borders the Gulf of Mexico, which touches it on the south. It has an area of 1,064 square miles. Its population in 1890 was 2,122, in 1900 it was 3,999 and in 1910 it was 7,100.

Taylor county was originally a part of Madison county, from which it was separated by the Legislature. In soil it has not as large a variety as some of the other important counties of the state, but this soil is well adapted to the production of a high grade of sea island cotton, sugar cane, rice, cassava and all the vegetables that belong in this latitude. The large area of pine forests have made it important in the naval stores industry. So far as is known, the only indications of oil and natural gas in the state have been found here. These indications have not as yet led to the investment of capital for their possible development into important industries.

Taylor county has a long coast line and the fishing industry affords employment to a considerable portion of the citizens in the southern part, which is a source of large income. No section of the Florida coast is richer in its production of salt water fish, although the extreme southern part of the peninsula has more varieties.

Perry is the county seat, which in 1910 had a population slightly exceeding one thousand inhabitants.

Extracted from Florida, 1513-1913, Past and Future; Four Hundred Years of Wars and Peace and Industrial Development by George M Chapin, published in 1914, pages 606-607

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