Northwest Florida's Historic Bagdad Village
Listed on the National Register of History Places

2005Ornament —
Kitchen of Bagdad Inn /Broaddus House

2004 Ornament —
Forcade/Youngblood House

This house was built in 1919 and is located at 6865 Allen Street in Bagdad. (Check back for more information)

2003 Ornament —
Ates-Krebs House

This house was probably built by Stearns and Culver Mill carpenters around 1903. During this time, several houses on Forsyth Street were built with similar features. One example is diamond-shaped windows, often placed over the interior stairs. In the Ates-Krebs House, the original glass in the window has been replaced with stained glass. The floor boards in this house are quarter-sawn heart of pine lumber of equal width and continuous length, with no piecing required and no knot holes. Although the original owner is unknown, the Holland family lived there from 1910-1915. Mr. Holland was killed in a tragic accident at the mill. Next, the C. H. Overman family lived there, followed by the J. T. Allen family. In 1941, after the mill had closed in 1939, the Bagdad Corporation deeded this property to Maxwell and

Linnie Howe Ates. “Peanut” and “L.B.” lived there and operated a grocery store across the street and one block south of this property. In 1976 Shelby and Lena Mae Copeland Blan, along with her mother, Mrs. Rosada Walders Ferguson, purchased the house. Shelby and Lena Mae celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in this house. Max Brown was the next owner. Then, in 1986, Tom and Mary Krebs purchased the house and are currently living there.

2002 Ornament —
Mellor-Sampley House

The Sampley House, located at 4561 Forsyth Street, is named after Miss Bennie Sampley, a beloved teacher at Bagdad Grammar School. Her father was a sawyer at Bagdad Lumber Mill and her family lived there from 1917 until the mill closed in 1939. It was recently discovered that the house was built for John C. Mellor, a mill superintendent originally from Walsall, England. During his voyage to America, Mellor met his future wife, Henrietta Corrie. Ron and Peggy Toifel discovered books previously belonging to the four Mellor children, during a 1980’s restoration. The original structure was probably built in 1907 by mill carpenters and contains distinctive architectural features such as diamond-shaped windows placed over interior staircases similar features were added to houses later built on Forsyth Street when the mill was under the ownership of Stearns and Culver of Chicago. Since 1939, the house has undergone several transformations being used as apartments during World War II, and later as an antique store. In 2000, the house was sold to current owners, Tony and Beth Coogle. Beth is a teacher at Bagdad Elementary School.

2001 Ornament —
Old Bagdad Elementary School / 1914-1926 1st Baptist Church 1926-1972

Schools have existed in various locations in Bagdad since 1866 and before. The evening of April 17th, 1914, the school on Simpson Street burned under mysterious circumstances. Construction of a new white wooden building began immediately on Forsyth Street. By 1926 a new and larger brick building had been completed across the street, and the Baptist Church acquired the wooden building. Modifications were made over the years until 1972 when the wooden building was dismantled and a brick building was constructed.