ISSUE 19, HONEY, Part 4: Tupelo

The most famous southern honey

Tupelo Honey

Florida

We owe this most distinguished of American honeys to the enterprise of one person, Sidney Smith Alderman (1835-1922), born in Mariana, Florida just as the Second Seminole War broke out.  An orange grower, he required bees to pollinate his groves in Calhoun County. He erected in 1872 70 hives at the Old Fort Place outside of Wewahitchk…