Caryville is a town in Washington County, Florida, United States located along the Choctawhatchee River.

The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild winters.

[9] Caryville, in northwestern Washington County, owes its existence largely to the forestry products industries.

On February 24, 1882, Thomas Hannah of Point Washington sold several lots totaling 121 acres of Half Moon Bluff to Edwards, Brooks and Company of Opelika, Alabama.

The logs were consigned to the river, bearing the name and brand of Strickland and Wesley of Point Washington.

The logs were floated down stream to the mouth of the Choctawhatchee where they were caught up in a boom and towed to nearby sawmills.

Big scale timber operations began with the establishment of Sanford Lumber Company at Caryville well before the end of the 19th century.

At the height of the milling operation, logs were hauled in by steam locomotive with train tracks laid as far south as Ebro for this purpose.

The Henderson-Waits holdings including the Caryville mill, were sold late in 1925 to Brown-Florida Lumber Company, a branch of the W.P.

A few years later, the holdings were reacquired by Henderson-Waits Lumber Company who soon suspended operations due to exhaustion of virgin timber in the area.

Streets in the McCaskill subdivision ran east and west with the avenues extending north and south.

Streets listed were Liberty, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Washington, Lincoln, McKinley, Wilson, Cleveland and Monroe.

On July 1, 1934, Joe Brock and his son Fred were gunned down on a Saturday afternoon in the midst of a crowd gathered at the sawmill commissary, known as the Company Store.

Si Locke, the town barber, became Justice of the Peace and Harley Nelson was the Constable, with a new 1937 Ford as his police cruiser.

Howell Plywood Corporation operated a plant in Caryville for several years in the post World War II era.

Eleven years later, voters approved incorporation with a charter that withheld police and as valorem taxing powers.

C. C. Barlow was named city clerk members of the town council under the new charter were Franklin P. Evans, Herman Brown, Preston Anderson, Ernest Peters and Luther Whitaker, Gaston Bryan, Cleston Tadlock and Odell Parish were subsequently elected to the council.

A Wayside Park was added on the banks of the Choctawhatchee River, a totally new water system was installed and Caryville received a minimum custody vocational type prison facility at the south town limits.

A disastrous flooding in 1990, and again in 1994, caused many homes to be destroyed or badly damaged by the high water.