First Ponce de Leon Band

Photo courtesy of Bette Beaty

First Ponce de Leon Rhythm Band

Photo courtesy of Bette Beaty

Ponce de Leon Band 1946

Photo courtesy of Bette Beaty

Fish caught at Morrison Springs

Photo courtesy of Bette Beaty

Ponce de Leon 1st Grade Class - 1938

Photo courtesy of Bette Beaty

Ponce de Leon Springs 1933

Photo courtesy of Bette Beaty

Ponce de Leon Springs 1933

Photo courtesy of Bette Beaty

Ponce de Leon Springs 1951

Photo courtesy of Bette Beaty

Ponce de Leon Springs 1993

Photo courtesy of Bette Beaty

Old Saw Mill in Ponce de Leon

Photo courtesy of Bette Beaty

Swimmers at Ponce de Leon Springs

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Swimmers at Ponce de Leon Springs

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Workers picking cotton in Holmes County, FL

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Holmes County Courthouse, Bonifay, FL

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Holmes County Courthouse, Bonifay, FL

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Holmes County Courthouse, Bonifay, FL

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Holmes County Courthouse, Bonifay, FL

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

James Spears preparing peanut stack in Holmes County, FL

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Cane field workers, Holmes County, FL

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Loading peanuts in Holmes County

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Man in field of upland rice, Holmes County

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Peanut vine haystacks in Holmes County

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

"Mary" on the Choctawhatchee River, Holmes County

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Logging crew in Holmes County, FL

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

First plane to land in Holmes County

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Smokehouse in Holmes County, FL

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

100-year-old home in Westville, FL - once a post office

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

1929 flood in Westville, FL

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Vircey Bedsole, retired teacher, first Collard Festival Queen

Ponce de Leon, FL -

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Green Bros. Livery, Feed, and Sale Stable (1913) -

one of Ponce de Leon's most prominent businesses

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Ponce de Leon's railroad station -

once the busiest place in town

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

The Ponce de Leon Post Office - est. 1853

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Gathering rosin gum for turpentine in Florida

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

J. L. McLauchlin's field of velvet beans

(a protein-rich bean for cattle in the early 1900's), Bonifay, FL

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Silo construction in Holmes County, FL (late 1800's)

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Dr. John D. Gable (standing), Holmes County physician, 1912

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

Teachers and pupils outside Cedar Grove School

in northern Holmes County, FL, early 1920's

Photo courtesy of Florida Photographic Collection

PDL Rail Station

Photo courtesy of Debbie Kolmetz

Morrison Springs (taken in 1911)

Photo courtesy of the FL Photographic Collection

Juan Ponce de Leon

Photo courtesy of the FL Photographic Collection

Katie Hall's store

Joseph Dudley from Leonia, FL, 1949

Served in the Florida House of Representatives

Photo courtesy of the FL Photographic Collection

Ship with cotton bales on Choctawhatchee River in 1883

Photo courtesy of the FL Photographic Collection

Ponce de Leon's old jailhouse

Photo courtesy of Debbie Kolmetz

Ponce de Leon's old water tower

Photo courtesy of Debbie Kolmetz

Old highway 81

Photo courtesy of Debbie Kolmetz

PDL class of 1945

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Murl Paul

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

J. A. Padgett

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Verna Hughes

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Bina Lou Commander

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Fred Holland

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Homer Hardy

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Gerald Sutton

Photo courtesy Helen Galloway

Ann Bedsole

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Bill & Helen Galloway

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

George Sledge

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Gladys Barefoot

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Carolyn Baxter, Colleen Brown, Violet Stephens, Blanche Hussey, & Helen Commander

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Violet Stephens, Colleen Brown, & Blanche Hussey

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Ms. Galloway, PDL faculty member

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

1943-45 PDL faculty member

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

1943-45 PDL faculty member

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Mrs. White, PDL business teacher

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Mr. Prichard, PDL principal

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Owen Sutton

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Ruthie Lee Stafford

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Violet Stephens

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Lowery Carroll

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

Helen Commander

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

PDL class of 1945

Photo courtesy of Helen Galloway

First Baptist Church

Photo courtesy of Debbie Kolmetz

First Baptist Church

Photo courtesy of Debbie Kolmetz

First Baptist Church

Photo courtesy of Debbie Kolmetz

First Baptist Church

Photo courtesy of Debbie Kolmetz