Blue Creek

[ community & school site (June 29, 1908) ] Blue Creek School was made of logs.

D. S. Register as a boy with his family settled at Blue Creek near Keaton Beach.

Barney Burch was for many years associated with Captain Alston Brown who operated a large naval stores business at Blue Creek ( post office - Thelma.)

Moulton Jane Williams was a teacher and taught at Blue Creek School. After she married the family lived in Shady Grove where Mr. Williams was a merchant.

W. H. Denmark grew up on a farm  but went to work in the turpentine business. Hunter worked as woods rider for Blair & Hinely in their Perry establishment. Later he was with Alston Brown at Blue Creek where convicts were utilized. Later still he was postmaster at Carbur.

Taylor County - A microcosom of frontier America by Joe Akerman states that by 1855, settlements existed at Lake Joe, Shady Grove, Pisgah, Thomas Mill Island, Oakland, Barker Hammock, Blue Creek, Sunnyside and Carlton Springs.