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The craft brewery’s closure aligns with an increasing trend of similar taproom closures throughout Tampa Bay.
Republicans on Tuesday night swept the races for attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner.
This iconic Florida critter appears to have swallowed an Xbox just a couple of weeks before the release of GTA 6.
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Jay is in Santa Rosa County, Florida.
Region: North Florida
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The craft brewery’s closure aligns with an increasing trend of similar taproom closures throughout Tampa Bay.
Republicans on Tuesday night swept the races for attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner.
This iconic Florida critter appears to have swallowed an Xbox just a couple of weeks before the release of GTA 6.
Jay got its name almost by accident. In the early 1800s the area in far northern Santa Rosa County was known as Cobb Old Field, and the Jernigan family were among its first pioneers, working in timber and logging while Florida was still a territory. By the 1890s the farming settlement was called Pine Level. In 1902 a committee met to choose a name for a new post office. James Thomas Nowling, known as "Jay," proposed Pine Level, but another Florida post office already had that name, and his second idea was turned down as too long. Before he could offer a third, postal officials named the office after his nickname, and Nowling became Jay's first postmaster.
Jay grew as a farming town, raising cotton, soybeans, peanuts and hay, and in 1940 local farmers started a livestock market whose sales reached $1 million within ten years. Its history also has a painful chapter: in 1922, after a fight between a Black farmer and a white farmer, at least 175 African American residents left Jay in a mass exodus, and the town afterward became known as a sundown town. Jay was incorporated as a town in 1951. In June 1970 the Humble Oil company's discovery well struck oil in the Smackover formation here, the first Jurassic oil production in Florida. The Jay field became Florida's giant oil field, and it has produced more than 330 million barrels from about 67 wells, eleven of them inside town limits. According to the town, oil royalties helped pay for a new city hall, fire department and recreation complex. Sources Wikipedia: Jay, Florida (citing Diamond, 1949, and the Pensacola News Journal and the Town of Jay) American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin: oil developments, 1970 Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Jay, a small town history
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