Eucheeanna Community

Eucheeanna, the first Scottish settlement in territorial Florida, was named in honor of the Euchee Indians. Tradition holds that the first slave child was born in the settlement. Eucheeanna included a school, court house, jail, Masonic and Odd Fellows halls, general stores, a sawmill, and a grist mill. In 1868, the first monument in Florida erected to Confederate dead was placed there by the Ladies’ Monument Association. Eucheeanna served as the county seat of Walton County until an arsonist burned the court house in May 1885. On May 27, 1886, a commission approved moving the county seat to DeFuniak Springs. The monument was later moved to Euchee Valley Presbyterian Church and then to DeFuniak Springs. The Civil War reached Eucheeanna on September 23, 1864, when federal troops under General Ashboth came to raze and plunder on their way to Marianna and Tallahassee.

Florida · United States