According to info I have come across, the town of Jay in Santa Rosa County, FL was first named or called Pine Level. There were two post offices near there called Nora and Cora and these no longer exist. When a Post Office was established at PIne Level, supposedly it was named "Jay" for the first initial of a store owner there named J.T. Nowling. Mr. Nowling owned a store there and in 1902 became it's postmaster.

Cora Baptist Church-located near Jay, take highway 89 outta Jay heading South, as I recall about 4 or 5 miles, at intersection of highways 89 and 197 turn right on 197 for two miles, church and cemetery on right. If I'm reading my map correctly. I suspect that's the cora community. ----- Original Message ----- From: dyj <dyj@webtv.net> To: <FLESCAMB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 10:15 PM Subject: Re: [FLESCAMB] Town of Cora in Santa Rosa County > > According to info I have come across, the town of Jay in Santa Rosa > County, FL was first named or called Pine Level. There were two post > offices near there called Nora and Cora and these no longer exist. When > a Post Office was established at PIne Level, supposedly it was named > "Jay" for the first initial of a store owner there named J.T. Nowling. > Mr. Nowling owned a store there and in 1902 became it's postmaster. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >