On a hill just west of the Village of Bagdad, Florida in Northwest Florida, in the middle of mighty live oaks, rest the people who created, with their own bare hands, notably the largest economic concerns in the State of Florida at the turn of the 20th Century.

Here lie the Forsyths, the Bruces, the Sindorfs, the Crearys and many of their associates and employees alone with their families.

Corner stones of lumber and shipbuilding during a time when virgin heart pine was literally organic gold, they put Bagdad on the economic map of the nation. Go back far enough in Florida history and all roads, physical, social and economic, lead to Bagdad.