The Raney House

During the 1830's, as the cotton port of Apalachicola rapidly expanded, David G. Raney, a native of Virginia and a prosperous merchant active in many of the town's civic affairs, built a rather plain Federal style house at this site. Around 1850, a two-story portico and other features of the then popular Greek Revival architectural style were added. Raney's eight children grew up in this home. One son, George Pettus Raney, born in 1845, served in the Confederate Army, then returned to Apalachicola to practice law until his election to the Florida Legislature in 1868. Later he served two Florida governors as Attorney General before becoming a justice of the Florida Supreme Court and then its Chief Justice, a position he resigned in 1894, after which he practiced law until his death in 1911. Legend relates that ladies of Apalachicola met in the house at the beginning of the Civil War to sew a battle flag for local Confederate troops, and that Franklin County troops were mustered out of service there when the war ended. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Apalachicola, Florida · United States