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County Coordinator: Bonnie Cooper
Liberty County was created on December 15, 1855, from a part of Gadsden County. The county seat has variously been know as Ricoe's Bluff, Riddeysville and Bristol.
Liberty retains its frontier, primitive, and rural sameness; it is peopled with slow-speaking, rugged individuals who boast of the rural Southern roots and their robust living. The antebellum mansion of Jason Gregory, restored and preserved by the State in Torreya State Park, is tangible proof that the gentility of the Old South touched Liberty County people.
Indian mounds, arrow heads and pieces of clay pottery are scattered throughout the county reminding us that the first settlers were Indians. A lone orange tree, protected by swampy undergrowth, survives in the River Styx vicinity substantiating tales of orange groves which were tended by homesteaders. Huge buggy wheels, old hand saws, and discarded axes scattered throughout the county show existence of our founding fathers. Unmarked graves and old abandoned cemeteries are discovered by hunters and explorers.
Liberty County is sparsely populated because so much of its area is devoted to forests and wildlife. More than half of the county is taken up by the Apalachicola National Forest.
The towns and cities of Liberty County include: Bristol (county seat), Estiffanulga, Hosford, Orange, Rock Bluff, Sumatra, Telogia, Wilma and Woods.
The Liberty County Heritage Book
Past and present residents of Liberty County were invited to submit stories about Liberty County and its pioneers or early families, with photographs, for a Heritage Book. The Liberty County Heritage Book Committee is in the process of compliling the book and are now taking pre-orders. Stories in the book will include topics such as the towns, churches, schools, cemeteries, businesses, memories and clubs of Liberty County.
If you wish to pre-order the book please print out this order form and mail, with payment, to the address show.
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- 14 Feb 2007
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