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Blackwater Historical Tour
200 to 400 -year-old Longleaf Southern Yellow Pine Trees.
Log Carts were used to transport logs from the forest to a water source: Blackwater River, Yellow River or Pond creek.
Log Processing located on Pond Creek West of Floating Dock.
Loggers Would raft logs from local streams and rivers to the sawmills.
- The "City of Tampa" commuter steam ship made daily trips from Bagdad to
Pensacola. 1884-1920.
Pensacola. 1884-1920.
Tampa fully loaded and carried 120 passengers.
There are 27 documented Shipwrecks in the Blackwater River.
A Juvenile Eagle, lots of Osprey in the Blackwater River Basin.
Lumber Processing located on canal south of Pond Creek on the east side of Bagdad
Mill site Park.
Mill site Park.
Picture of how the land was ravaged by logging operations over 150 year span.
Bagdad Sawmill Employees on the last day in April 1939.
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