Editing Sopchoppy, Florida (section)

==History==
[[Image:Sopchoppy FL depot08.jpg|thumb|left|[[Sopchoppy Depot]]]]
The city's name is a corruption of "Lockchoppe", derived from the [[Muskogean languages|Muskogee]] ''lokchapi'' ("''lokcha''" meaning "acorn", and "''api''" meaning "stem"), which was the old name of the nearby river.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.flheritage.com/facts/reports/names/city3.cfm|title=Name Origins of Florida Places @ Florida OCHP|website=www.flheritage.com}}</ref>

Mention of ''Sopchoppy'' can be found in 1850, in a [[runaway slave]] [[ad]] published by Henry Mash in the May 7, 1850 [[Florida Sentinel]] newspaper of Tallahassee. This is nearly 50 years earlier than the 1894 claim noted below.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

Sopchoppy came into existence in 1894 after the [[Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia Railroad|CT&G Railroad Company]] built a railway through the area. It [[plat]]ted the city on property it already owned in the area, across the river from Greenough. To encourage people to settle the area, the railroad engaged in an advertising campaign, exaggerating the quality of the soil and climate.<ref name=SopSet>{{cite web|url=http://www.littletownmart.com/fdh/sopchoppy.htm|title=The Sopchoppy River (Florida)|website=www.littletownmart.com}}</ref>

The [[Sopchoppy Depot]] was built in 1891. Now a museum, it was built for the [[Carrabelle, Tallahassee & Georgia Railroad]]  (G. F. & A.), and referred to colloquially as the "Gopher, Frog & Alligator, Company", which was absorbed by the [[Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railroad]]. The line began in 1893 and closed in 1946. It transported lumber, turpentine and related products, honey, farm produce, soldiers, fish and oysters packed in barrels in ice as well as [[sturgeon]] caviar from the Sopchoppy River, frog legs, and catfish.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.visitwakulla.com/Things-to-Do/Historic-Sopchoppy-Train-Depot|title = Historical & Educational}}</ref>

Although it has existed as a settlement since at least 1894, the '''City of Sopchoppy''' was officially incorporated as a [[municipality]] in 1955.<ref name=SopInc/><ref name=SCInc/>