Whats new in Liberty County?
BRISTOL — With 7,021 residents, Liberty edged out Lafayette by just one person to claim the title of the state’s least populated county. But the census takers only tallied humans in the locale that lays claim to being the true Garden of Eden. If they’d included earthworms — or roosters or goldfish or bees — it’d be a different story. Nestled between the Apalachicola and Ochlocknee rivers in the Florida Panhandle, Liberty County hasn’t changed much since it was settled in 1855. Residents young and old agree there’s nothing to do in the scrub-filled community 45 miles west of Tallahassee — and they like it that way. “The biggest thing in Liberty County is a football game or a baseball game at the high school,” says a member of one of the county’s founding families. John Shuler stands beside a large “Yard Sale” sign on a triple-sized lot — littered with table after table of what looks less like an antiquer’s paradise and more, well, like trash. Bargain hunters poke through tables of
