The Gulf Coast's Hidden Jewel
— Southern Living
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In contrast to today's era of artificial villages such as SeaSide and Celebration, there stands the history-steeped town of Apalachicola, full of character and color that cannot be created by illusion. It is the real thing!
A town that burst into existence because of the cotton trade before the War Between the States, and after the cotton bust, turned to sponges, timber, and shrimping — it now harvests 90 percent of the oysters consumed in Florida.
The town was laid out with streets and parks after the model city of its time in 1835, the city of Philadelphia. This model has kept the town small; the population of Apalachicola in the 1838 census was 2,066 and in the 2000 census was 2,344.
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