Teaspoon, Florida
The original community known as "Teaspoon" was settled by recently freed slaves after the Civil War. The area, now known as Century, was in close proximity to numerous jobs in the timber industry that was booming after the war. There was the felling of the trees, hauling them out, transporting them to the sawmills in Bluff Springs, McDavid, Bogia, and Pine Barren and then their converting them to lumber. One of those workers would become the famous black outlaw Morris Slater, known as "Railroad Bill." He was an employee of the Bradford Sawmill Camp and gunned down the Sheriff of Escambia County, Alabama several years hence. The origin of the town's name is unknown, but many thinks it's named after a nearby bend in the Escambia River. The only known remaining structure from the town of Teaspoon was the Pilgrim Lodge Baptist Church meeting house. It was originally organized in 1878, but after the town was renamed "Century" because of its turn of the century corporation in 1901, the church was renamed the Pilgrim Lodge. It has since been bricked, but still in use. The oldest house in Century is the "Mark Mayo House." It was built c1900 in the community then called "Teaspoon", and is the only building in the district that preceded the Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company. It had belonged to Mark Mayo, from whom most of the land for the town site was bought, shortly after the town was started.
The Pilgrim Lodge Baptist Church (Above and below)
Pilgrim Lodge Baptist Church of today