 Several stores, warehouses and a hotel that billed itself as the "best on the gulf" were established.Imports also came through the port to supply the growing Florida panhandle area.Such items of record include brown and loaf sugar, Canary, Malaga and Bordeaux wine (known then as Claret wine), bleached osnaburg, powder, shot, lead, cordage, leans soup, foolscap sealing wax and Scotch snuff.