What are the opening hours?

Monday 8am - 3:30pm Tuesday 8am - 3:30pm Wednesday 8am - 3:30pm Thursday 8am - 3:30pm Friday 8am - 3:30pm Saturday 8am - 11:30am

AWCA

Call Directions Website

Working Hard to Earn Your Business! Shoes required to go out on yard. Flip flops & sandals worn at your own risk in the non-ferrous and office area only.

All images on this page copyright protected by angryfilly.net & AwcA, including on behalf of other photocredits.

10/21/2026

💔

Massive oaks toppled in Bagdad during Hurricane Isaias. The Historic Village of Bagdad is known for antebellum homes and giant oak trees. Many of the trees fell during the storm.

10/18/2026

Seen on a local page.

"To the outsiders that came here to actually "help us". We thank you! Especially to the linemen, outside sherrifs offices and, volunteers. To the people that came here to do nothing but harass our locals for money after we suffered a very very hard storm with millions of dollars in losses, We kindly ask you to stay the away from our town. Tree companies, charging between $3,000-$20,000 per home to "help our community". Stump grinders, $500 for one stump that a local would do for $50? No, you all stole from our locals. Rhino roofing, $9,000 to put one tarp on a roof thats not even steep? Highway robbery. We are glad you got denied. Aci tree service, 4 of your employees got out of their truck and surrounded a LOCAL tree worker because he looked at you the wrong way? Sorry their company cleaned up a neighborhood for a fair price before you could arrive to steal elders money. Yeah, we all got through it, some easy, others not easy at all with no money to start over. Alot of you may not even know that we had a few linemen get killed this week while they were trying to get our power back on. Help is appreciated, hard work is appreciated. Stealing from us will never end well. Dont come back. Us locals can take care of our people."

09/27/2026

William Bartram spent the middle of June 1774 at a Seminole town on the lower Suwannee called Talahasochte, and what he found there was not a frontier settlement but a seaport. The men were building canoes out of single cypress trunks, hollowed and burned and adzed smooth, and the largest of them were commodious enough to carry twenty or thirty warriors. 🛶

They were not river boats. Bartram recorded that these canoes carried trading and hunting expeditions down to the sea coast and out among the neighboring islands and keys, and that the men would sometimes cross the gulph, extending their navigations to the Bahama Islands and even to Cuba. A party had lately come home from Havana when he arrived, carrying spirituous liquors, coffee, sugar and to***co. One of the returned travelers politely presented Bartram with a choice piece of that to***co, and told him the governor of Cuba had given it. That passage sits on page 193 of the Travels when Bartram finally published in 1791.

The town Bartram described is gone entirely, and has been gone for a very long time. Its site is locally believed to be Ross Landing, a bluff about six miles upstream of Manatee Springs in what is now Levy County, though nobody can put a stake in the ground and be certain. The spring is still there, and still enormous. State records give it a period of record median discharge of 204 cubic feet per second and an average of 189, and it was designated a National Natural Landmark in December 1971 after Florida acquired the tract in January 1968. It has also very nearly stopped. On the fifth of April 2005 the flow was measured at two cubic feet per second, and in October the year before it had run at 546. 🌿

09/25/2026

ty Beneath the Palms

Three brick forts once guarded the deep water pass at the mouth of the bay. Two of them you can still walk through today. The third is not ruined, not a foundation in the sand, not a marked outline. It is gone. 🧱

Work on Fort McRee began in 1834 and was finished in 1839, on the bare white sand at the tip of what is now Perdido Key, facing Fort Pickens across the channel. It was three storeys of brick with rows of arched gun embrasures, and the National Park Service describes its unusual wing design, two faces angled out so their fire converged on the main channel, running three hundred and sixty yards around the perimeter. It was named for Brevet Colonel William McRee, an army engineer who had served in the War of 1812.

On 22 November 1861 the guns opened from Fort Pickens and Santa Rosa Island, with warships including the USS Niagara joining from seaward, and they did not stop for two full days. The crossfire disabled about half of Fort McRee's cannon and set the fort alight. Three times that afternoon the woodwork burst into flame and three times it was put out. By the end the fort was exposed in front, flank and reverse, with half its armament dismounted. Colonel John Bordenave Villepigue was wounded in the arm and refused to be taken off. The Park Service records forty four casualties across the engagement without dividing them between the two sides.

Braxton Bragg wrote that for the number and calibre of guns and weight of metal brought into action, it would "rank with the heaviest bombardments in the world."

The Confederates vacated by May 1862. The wrecked brick was left to the weather and the shifting sand of the pass. Today nothing visible remains. 🌴

09/21/2026

PSA for all the noobs.

Address

6124 Gulf Breeze Parkway, Highway 98 1 Mile East Of The Gulf Breeze Zoo
Gulf Breeze, FL
32563

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 3:30pm
Tuesday	8am - 3:30pm
Wednesday	8am - 3:30pm
Thursday	8am - 3:30pm
Friday	8am - 3:30pm
Saturday	8am - 11:30am

Telephone

+18509341642

Website

http://www.awca.shutterfly.com/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when AWCA posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.