Eastpoint Was Originally Founded by a Communal Religious Group

Did you know that Eastpoint was founded by a communal religious group of families who dubbed themselves the Co-Workers Fraternity? These families traveled down the Chattahoochee River from Georgia 1898 in order to begin a new life together as a community. The families owned their own land, but the profits they made harvesting seafood, farming, and selling lumber were shared.

In addition to creating a colony focused on economic production, the Co-Workers’ Fraternity was also concerned with spiritual, philosophical, and religious study.

Photos of Eastpoint in the early 1900’s from the Brown Family Collection in the (State Archives of Florida)