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Millville
Millville is an established Panama City community east of downtown with its own waterfront history and neighborhood identity.
Every year
A December morning parade.
December
Children’s Christmas parade
Millville Waterfront Park, down 3rd Street East, ending at Daffin Park.
Weather has canceled it before; the city calendar has each year’s date.
Panama City's east-side bay neighborhood. It was once its own town.
Millville is Panama City's east-side waterfront neighborhood, on St. Andrew Bay and Watson Bayou a few minutes east of downtown. Before it was a neighborhood, it was the biggest town on the bay.
The town before the city
In the late 1800s, settlers on St. Andrew Bay needed lumber for houses and boats, and Millville had the sawmill, a shipyard and the stores. By 1910 it was the largest community around the bay. It incorporated in 1913, and by 1918 about 2,000 people lived here, with hotels, a theater, churches and 31 businesses. In 1926 Panama City annexed it.
The waterfront now
For decades a paper mill anchored Millville's waterfront. WestRock closed it in June 2022, and in 2024 SRM Concrete bought the site for a concrete and aggregates operation served by barge. The city runs a community redevelopment area here, the Millville CRA.
For residents, the waterfront is Millville Waterfront Park at 301 Maple Avenue: a boat ramp, fishing, a playground, picnic tables, a multi-purpose field and a walking track, open dawn to dusk.
Getting around
- Downtown and Harrison Avenue: about 5 minutes west.
- Ascension Sacred Heart Bay: about 5 minutes. HCA Florida Gulf Coast Hospital: about 10.
- St. Andrews and its marina: about 10 minutes.
- Pier Park and the Gulf: about 30 minutes over the Hathaway Bridge.
- Neighbors: Springfield is the next city east, and Callaway is just past it.
Good to know
Millville is inside Panama City, so city services and city zoning apply. Zoned schools depend on the street address. Find yours with the Bay District Schools zone lookup.
Official links
City of Panama City · Millville CRA · Millville Waterfront Park · Bay County Property Appraiser
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