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Photograph of Governor Stone
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

GOVERNOR STONE (schooner)

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1943.

From the record

“Governor Stone is a historic schooner, built in 1877 in Pascagoula, Mississippi, United States. She is the only surviving two-masted coasting cargo schooner built on the Gulf Coast of the United States, and is only one of five such surviving US-built ships.”

Wikipedia article Governor Stone (schooner), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Walton County · listed in 1991 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Baytown dock, Sandestin, 32320
  • When was it listed? December 1991
  • Category. structure
  • National Register reference number. 91002063 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Storms near this property

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandestin, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 3 rip current, 2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 3 deaths. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2004Rip CurrentSandestin1 killedRip currents claimed the life of an elderly tourist at the Sandestin Golf and Beach resort. Three swimmers were rescued. Reported by the Tallahassee Democrat.
July 1996Rip CurrentSandestin1 killedno account filed
July 1996Rip CurrentSandestin1 killedno account filed
September 2002Tornado (F1)Sandestin$550,000A tornado touched down and damaged numerous homes near U.S. Highway 98. Numerous trees and power lines were snapped. Reported by the Walton County EMA.
January 2019Thunderstorm WindSandestin$2,000A power line was blown down on private property in the Sandestin area.
March 2000HailSandestin-Dime size hail. Reported by the Walton County EMA.
September 1996Tornado (F0)Sandestin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walton County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91002063 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Walton CountyAll 8 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.