Lanark Village is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Franklin County,

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, United States, located along

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, on the

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. It is east of

Carrabelle, Florida Carrabelle is a city in Franklin County along Florida's Panhandle, United States. It is located east of Apalachicola at the mouth of the Carrabelle River on the Gulf of Mexico. The population was 2,606 as of the 2020 census. History In 152 ...

. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was known as Lanark-on-the-Gulf.

The Lanark Inn

Lanark-on-the-Gulf was a resort with a large hotel, the Lanark Inn, patronized principally by people from Tallahassee. The hotel's brochure claimed that Lanark "is the most picturesque place in western Florida". It was destroyed in the second hurricane of 1899, but was rebuilt. The rebuilt Lanark Inn was destroyed by fire in 1907, reopening after rebuilding in 1908. It had 100 rooms, and had live music almost every night at the dock, where there was a dancing pavilion. The dock was connected to the hotel by a

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. The Carrabelle, Tallahassee & Georgia Railroad ran excursion trains from Tallahassee.

Camp Gordon Johnston

The Lanark Inn was torn down at the beginning of the United States' involvement in World War II, and was replaced in 1942 by

Camp Gordon Johnston Camp Gordon Johnston was a World War II United States Army training center located in Carrabelle, Florida, United States. The site's history is featured at the Camp Gordon Johnston Museum. History Camp Gordon Johnston opened in September 1942 a ...

. This Army base trained amphibious soldiers and their support teams. A quarter of a million men were trained there. The trained soldiers were used in the

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attack. The camp closed in June 1946.

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Lanark Village, Florida (Florida HomeTown Locator)
Unincorporated communities in Franklin County, Florida Beaches of Franklin County, Florida Unincorporated communities in Florida Populated coastal places in Florida on the Gulf of Mexico Beaches of Florida {{FranklinCountyFL-geo-stub

The Lanark Inn

Camp Gordon Johnston

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