Unfortunately, the photo in the book this is from gives no other information than that this is a group of oyster shuckers in Apalachicola. It is indicated the photo is from the Florida State Archives.
This photo is from ‘African American Sites in Florida’.
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Here’s a page I drew for the upcoming ‘Swampy’s Florida Dunellon’
The A.W. Peterson Gun Shop opened in 1886 in Denver, Colorado. In 1954 the business packed up it’s Colorado location and moved it to Mount Dora, Florida. It’s been here ever since!
The wooden interior with a full array of hunting and shooting supplies gives any visitor the feeling of stepping into a shop in the 1800s. Besides supplies, fire arm classes are taught.
In the back is a historic exhibit of A.W. Peterson’s guns, equipment and photographs. The exhibit alone is worth the stop even if you aren’t in need of supplies.
Here’s the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Apalachicola. This structure was built in 1917. Since these photos were taken there have been a few alterations such as a new sign in the front, the Baptism pool has been painted all white and restored and a number of other changes.
This sign has been replaced with a plastic backlit sign.
Here is the historic marker set in the building.
