Instructions:
1....Print this file.
2....At its end, click on "rules" to see a copy of the trail rules, print it, and then click where indicated at the end of the 3-page rules and patch order form to get back to the list of Florida trails.
3....If you want a hand-drawn map showing the locations of all of the sites, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Steve Rajtar, 1614 Bimini Dr., Orlando, FL 32806.
4....Hike the trail and order whatever patches you like (optional).
WARNING - This trail may pass through one or more neighborhoods which, although full of history, may now be unsafe for individuals on foot, or which may make you feel unsafe there. Hikers have been approached by individuals who have asked for handouts or who have inquired (not always in a friendly manner) why the hikers are in their neighborhood. Drugs and other inappropriate items have been found by hikers in some neighborhoods. It is suggested that you drive the hike routes first to see if you will feel comfortable walking them and, if you don't think it's a good place for you walk, you might want to consider (1) traveling with a large group, (2) doing the route on bicycles, or (3) choosing another hike route. The degree of comfort will vary with the individual and with the time and season of the hike, so you need to make the determination using your best judgment. If you hike the trail, you accept all risks involved.
The present sanctuary was dedicated on July 12, 1959, and the steeple was added in 1971.
The Bunnell Development Company built this home in 1918. It is a wooden one and one-half story Bungalow with a four bay wide porch, exposed rafter ends, battered porch columns, pedestals and piers, a dormered second-story porch, and knee braces in the rafter ends.
This two-story home built in 1918 has a Neo-Classical style. It was the residence of Dr. W.H. Deen, the County Demonstrator for the Department of Agriculture.
This hospital was organized as Bunnell General Hospital by Dr. John M. Canakaris in 1955.
This was George Moody's second Bunnell house, built in 1918 by the Bunnell Development Company. It is a one and one-half story Bungalow with coquina pedestals and piers, exposed rafter ends, a porte-cochere, battered porch columns, and knee braces in the gable ends.
This is a Bungalow, built in about 1926. "Bungalow" is derived from a Bengali word meaning a low house with porches, used as a wayside shelter for nineteenth century British travelers in India. Between 1910 and 1930, the Bungalow was one of the most popular home designs in Florida.
This is also a Bungalow, built in about 1926. A Bungalow is generally one to one-and-a-half stories with a shallow pitch roof, with at least two rooms along the front of the house. The masonry piers holding up the porch floor often continue above it, topped by short wood columns supporting the roof. The front door was off-center, and the window pattern was usually asymmetrical.
This home, built in about 1926, is classified as Frame Vernacular.
"Frame Vernacular" is the most common style of residential architecture in Florida. It is a common wood frame technique employed by lay or self-taught builders. Homes are typically one or two stories in height, are usually rectangular, and construction is generally of pine on masonry piers of brick. Horizontal siding or shingles cover the exterior walls, and the original wood shingles or pressed metal roofing is often later replaced by composition shingles.
This, and the home across the intersection at 111 Anderson St., were built in about 1926 with a Frame Vernacular style.
This Frame Vernacular house was built in about 1917.
This Frame Vernacular home, and the one across the street at 500 Cherry St., date to about 1926.
This 1926 home is built with a Masonry Vernacular style.
This Frame Vernacular home was built in about 1917.
This Frame Vernacular home is a little older, having been built in about 1920.
This is a Frame Vernacular style house, built in about 1926.
This Masonry Vernacular style home was built in about 1926.
This is another Frame Vernacular home, built in about 1926.
This Frame Vernacular style house was built in 1916 for George Moody, who served as the first mayor of Flagler Beach. The house features a wraparound porch with Tuscan columns, plus gabled wall dormers.
The first church building on this site was erected in 1909 by the Bunnell Development Company as the first church in Bunnell, and was then presented to the Florida Methodist Conference. A parsonage was dedicated on February 10, 1910, replacing an earlier one on Magnolia St. Assisting in its organization was Rev. S.L. Hendrix of Hastings. Rev. W.A. Myers was appointed its first pastor in December of 1910. A new sanctuary was built here in 1957-58.
Across the street was located the first school in Bunnell, consisting of one room and built in 1909. It served as a school until 1924. One of the first teachers here was Minnie Johnston Deen. It was replaced in 1924 by a two-story brick school on Orange St., and other county schools were consolidated with it. The school building here burned down in the late 1960s.
S.M. Bortree built this Bungalow style house with coquina pedestals and piers in 1918 for his daughter and son-in-law, Thomas Holden. The house features battered porch columns, decorative apothecary glass, exposed rafter ends, and knee braces in the gable ends. Holden was the town's pharmacist.
This was part of the planned housing envisioned by the Bunnell Development Company. It was sold to Flagler County in 1978.
Just to the southwest, at the corner of Church St., was located the Pine Grove Inn. It was Bunnell's second hotel, built by S.M. Bortree in about 1913-14. The Stanish family later owned and ran it. In 1956, it was purchased by the Craig Funeral Home of St. Augustine, who operated it until they moved to a new location on Old Kings Rd.
This two-story brick courthouse was designed by W.B. Talley and built by O.P. Woodcock of Jacksonville in 1924. It has a Neo-classical style with massive Ionic columns. Its original appearance was altered by the replacement of the entrance and the addition of additional space in the rear.
Tom Holden erected this building in 1929 to house his drug store, which he operated until February of 1948. He sold the building to Gib Anderson, who called it Anderson's Drug Store. He sold it in 1951 to George M. Moody to be the home of Moody's Drugs. Later tenants include Electrolux in the east half and Altavilla Plaza in the west.
Isaac I. Moody, the president of the Bunnell Development Company, had this two and one-half story Frame Vernacular home built for him in 1909. It has a Frame Vernacular style and features gabled dormers, a porch with balustrade and sunburst, and massive chimneys with corbelled caps. Moody and J.F. Lambert bought 30,000 acres and formed the company to develop this town.
This is also a Frame Vernacular house built in about 1909.
This building was erected before 1910 and was known as the Bunnell Hotel, providing lodging for patrons who came to buy land here and for those who were waiting for their homes to be completed. Early operators of the hotel were Mr. and Mrs. F.L. Byrd. It was later known as the Halcyon Hotel and then the Carriage Apartments.
This is the oldest remaining building standing in Bunnell, built in 1909. It was the home of J.F. Lambert, who started the Bunnell Development Company with Isaac Moody.
It is a two-story Frame Vernacular style home with wall dormers, a first-floor porch with balustrade, fish-scale shingles in the gable end, and a bay window.
This massive two-story Frame Vernacular home was built in 1909. It was the residence of W.H. Cochran, one of the first members of the Bunnell City Council, and his wife, Louetta. The house features massive chimneys with corbelled caps.
This building was originally a Texaco service station, later housing the Cody Manufacturing Co. office. It later served as a residence, and then the home of Stephenson's Survey.
Located here was the home of B.B. Bachelder. Later owners included Fannie Smith and her family, then the Charles Warner family, and then the Camerons.
The first house on this site was the large two-story residence of Homer and Ora Miller. Later, it was owned by Bill Atkinson, who bought the Ford Motor Co. agency from J.A. Henderson. Even later, it was the home of the Tingley family and then was torn down.
A 1909 one-story Frame Vernacular style home located here was the third built in Bunnell after the town was laid out.
This was the office of Bunnell Development Company, started in 1909 by Isaac I. Moody and J.F. Lambert to create the town of Bunnell. They had, in 1903, bought Alvah Bunnell's shingle mill and decided to start a town.
This building has also served as a drug store, post office, Flagler County Abstract Co., and the Land 'n' Sea Fashions owned by Andy and Dorothy Yelvington.
This two-story Masonry Vernacular style building was erected in 1917, and remains one of the best examples of commercial architecture in the county. The bank was located here from 1917 until 1933.
The exterior is brick, with Tennessee and Georgia marble on the interior. After Bunnell State Bank moved out, the building was used by Citizens Bank, the Moose Lodge, Connell Jewelry, the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Palmer's TV Shop and the Recycling Center.
This Masonry Vernacular style building was erected in 1914, and was the first large building west of the railroad. Early tenants in it were McArn & Co., People's Mercantile Co., M. Kanner & Co., Bunnell Hardware Co., and Atlantic Realty Co.
In it was printed the St. Johns Tribune, which when Flagler County was formed on July 1, 1917, became the Flagler Tribune. It moved out of this building in 1919. A later business in the building was W.H. McKenzie's Bunnell Mercantile Co. From 1943 until 1954, it was occupied by the John C. Rice Hardware, which Dunn Hardware and Supply purchased in 1954.
An upstairs meeting room was used by Masonic Lodge #200, Modern Woodmen of America, The Order of the Eastern Star and the Knights of Pythias.
Bunnell Lodge F.&A.M. 200, after meeting in the Tribune Building, erected this building in 1946.
In about 1918 The Strand, the first movie theater in Bunnell was opened just to the northwest of this site by L.S. Cody and W.L. Jones. The building was later replaced by A.C. Rodgers' Hot Dog Stand.
This Masonry Vernacular style building was erected in 1909-10 for the new Bunnell State Bank. Isaac I. Moody served as its president. It used the entrance on the corner. After the bank moved out, that space became Tom Holden's drug store, then Fulgham's Bee Hive, a dry cleaners, a department store, and a heating and air conditioning business.
The next space on Moody Blvd. was the post office and grocery store. Next came Dr. L.A. Carter's office and drug store. The third space housed a drug store.
The Flagler Tribune moved into the Moody Blvd. side in 1919. The paper was bought in 1966 by Len Wilson, and soon sold to John A. Clegg, and in 1973 to Florida Publishing Co. Daytona Beach News Journal acquired it in 1981 and it became the Flagler Palm Coast News Tribune.
On the Railroad St. side of the building was the General Store owned by J.A. Ross and then by John I. Choate, C.A. Smith and Ernest Johnson, then restaurants and grocery stores.
These two buildings, erected in about 1926, are classified as Masonry Vernacular in style.
Z.D. Holland built the city hall in 1937 with a Masonry Vernacular style and an exterior of coquina hand cut by John Swain with an ax. It was a project of the W.P.A.
The city is named for Alvah A. Bunnell, its first settler, who established a cypress shingle mill along Utley J. White's narrow gauge railroad line, which came through the area in 1885. The railroad called the settlement Bunnell Stop. Bunnell incorporated in 1913.
Florida Historical Markers & Sites, by Floyd E. Boone (Gulf Publishing Company 1988)
Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, (University of Florida Press 1989)
Historic Properties Survey of Flagler County, Florida, by Historic Property Associates, Inc. (1987)
The Pictorial History of Bunnell, by The Pioneers of Bunnell (Flagler Printers/Plus 1988)
The Pioneer Churches of Florida, by The Daughters of the American Revolution (The Mickler House 1976)