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St. Andrews Bay (Florida)

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Wild dolphin are commonly seen in the waters of St. Andrew Bay; they are easily spotted when the waters are smooth in the mornings. In shallower waters, St. Andrew Bay is known for vast schools of mullet, redfish and speckled trout. Occasionally a manatee is spotted in the bay as well.
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Official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, Series I- Volume 17: Gulf Blockading Squadron (December 16, 1861-February 21, 1862); East Gulf Blockading Squadron (December 22, 1862–July 17, 1865) pages
78:. It is a 69,000-acre estuary located in northwest Florida. It is relatively deep, and of relatively high salinity due to the low freshwater inflow provided by only a few spring-fed creeks (the most significant being 144:, helped destroy numerous salt works, doing great damage to the Confederate war effort. The shallow draft of the steamboat allowed her to go up inlets where other, deeper draft vessels had been unable to travel. 248: 605: 610: 586: 615: 241: 21: 294: 99: 579: 234: 572: 123: 527: 380: 445: 55:
Aerial view of St. Andrews Bay and the harbor entrance from the Gulf of Mexico. View is to the east-northeast.
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St. Andrew Bay was the location of a large number of
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30°09′08″N 85°41′28″W / 30.15222°N 85.69111°W / 30.15222; -85.69111

Bay County
panhandle
Florida
Econfina Creek
county seat
Bay County
Panama City
Saint Andrew
Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Railway
Dothan, Alabama
short line
saltworks
Confederacy
American Civil War
steamboat
USS Bloomer
Geneva, Alabama
"NOAA Miami Regional Library - Regional Databases - St. Andrew Bay"
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Apalachicola
Barnes
Biscayne
Blackwater
Choctawhatchee
East

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