In 1905, the Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railroad built a depot and section house along its rail line from the phosphate mines at Mulberry to the port of Boca Grande. In 1909, the railroad platted the town of McCall and named it for C.B. McCall, the general freight and passenger agent at Boca Grande. The section house was home to the section foreman and his family, additional houses were built for other railroad workers and their families, and a bunkhouse housed single men. This cluster of buildings began the town of McCall, which soon included a turpentine camp, sawmill, store, post office, one-room school house, and two churches. Trains stopped there to take on water for their boilers from a nearby pond. By 1928, McCall had become a non-stop station, and cattleman Arthur “A.C.” Frizzell purchased the railroad property and demolished most of the buildings. The McCall Section House remained the last standing structure until it burned down in 2004, and the intersection of County Road 771 and State Road 776 is the only visible remnant of the former town.