Gadsden County Board of County Commissioners history

Location:SR 65B and 267 County: Gadsden City: Wetumpka Description: Near this site stood Rocky Comfort, the plantation home of Bryan Croom, a native of North Carolina who settled in Gadsden County in 1826 with his family and slaves.

These worshippers built Philadelphia, a log meeting house, in 1828.

By 1830, a road had been built through this area from Quincy to the Apalachicola River crossing at Chattahoochee.

All the brick were made in the vicinity and construction was begun in 1834.

In 1849, Pleasants Woodson White married Smallwood's niece, Emily, and purchased the property.

Gadsden designed and built the fort on the Apalachicola River which bears his name, and in 1853 was responsible for the Gadsden Purchase which completed the boundaries of the continental United States.

Construction of a new brick building began the next year and was completed by 1854.

He was commissioned a major in the Confederate Army in 1861 and, as Chief Commissary Officer for Florida, commanded the important depot at Quincy.

Following the Civil War the Federal Government gave it to the Freedman Bureau in 1866.

In 1876, it became the first mental health hospital in Florida.

Pat Munroe" built the Pat Munroe House for his first wife, Edith Adelaide Walker, in 1893.

Constructed in 1898, the first church edifice was a simple white frame structure.

After Gretna was platted as a town in 1905 there was a desire to have a school in the town limits.

James A. Dezell was the first mayor of the Town of Greensboro, serving several terms following the first organizational meeting on August 13, 1908.

The Classic Revival building was soon completed and, with a brief interruption during the Civil War, continued to serve the educational needs of the Quincy community until 1912.

In 1929, the Legislature, impressed with the tobacco research, agreed to expand the research to other agricultural endeavors.

In 1931, the Quincy Woman's Club Library began to serve the public from quarters in the Academy.

In 1946, these two districts were producing over 95% of American-grown wrapper leaf and they represented a $100,000,000.00 industry of which $25,000,000.00 was invested in land equipment, barns, packing houses, and operating capital in the Georgia-Florida area.