09/17/2012 Florida Crossroads – Florida Remembers – The Forgotten City of St. Joseph

Florida’s Constitutional Convention was held in 1838 in one of the territory’s newest boom towns, St. Joseph in the Florida Panhandle. Prized for its deepwater port and resort climate, the old city of St. Joseph was gone by the time Florida was admitted as the 27th state in 1845. In another installment of our Florida Crossroads history series called “Florida Remembers”, Gary Williams explains the rise, fall and eventual rebirth of the area and how the legacy of some influential businessmen played a role in the development of Northwest Florida.