Beach Home For Sale Cape San Blas Rd

Cape San Blas was home to a Confederate Saltworks where 150 bushels of salt a day were processed by evaporation of seawater. This halted in 1862 when a landing party from the Union ship, the USS Kingfisher, destroyed the saltworks. There are many nice beach houses in this area

Cape San Blas has had 4 lighthouses. The first, built in 1847, collapsed during a gale on August 23-24 of 1851. Congress appropriated $12,000 for a second brick tower lighthouse for the cape which was finally finished in November of 1855, but it was destroyed on August 30, 1856, when another hurricane struck Cape San Blas.