Bagdad: Cemetery Corner stones of lumber and shipbuilding during a time when virgin heart pine was literally organic gold, they put Bagdad on the economic map of the nation. Go back far enough in Florida history and all roads, physical, social and economic, lead to Bagdad.
Here lie the Forsyths, the Bruces, the Sindorfs, the Crearys and many of their associates and employees alone with their families.
The gravemarker is a typical style of the “Woodmen of the World”. Joseph Cullen Root founded the Woodman of the World life insurance and fraternal organization. It was reported that Root’s idea for “Woodmen” came from a speech he heard about woodsmen clearing away forests to provide shelter for their families. Others speculated that Root visualized himself as the root that would grow into a shelter, protecting members from financial disaster.
The oak-shaded road leads to the cemetery.
On a hill just west of the Village of Bagdad, Florida in Northwest Florida, in the middle of mighty live oaks, rest the people who created, with their own bare hands, notably the largest economic concerns in the State of Florida at the turn of the 20th Century.
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