TAYLOR COUNTY
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N 30° 07.221 W 083° 34.876
17R E 251301 N 3334933
Located In front of Old Taylor Count Jail, 411 N. Washington St Perry, Fla.
Waymark Code: WM7JPJ
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 11/01/2009
Views: 19
Taylor County was created from Madison County on December 23, 1856. It was named for Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the United States and commander of U.S. Army forces in Florida during part of the Second Seminole War. The name of the county seat was changed from Rosehead to Perry in 1875 in honor of Madison Starke Perry, governor of Florida from 1857-1861. This former jail is the oldest surviving public building in Taylor County. Erected in 1912, the Colonial Revival building was designed by Benjamin Bosworth Smith, an architect from Montgomery, Alabama, who had designed the Taylor County Courthouse erected four years earlier. The courthouse was demolished in the 1960s. A new jail was constructed in 1958.
Marker Number: F-364
Date: 1995
County: Taylor
Marker Type: Roadside
Sponsored or placed by: THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF STATE
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