As a bonus spot for the Revolution Road driving tour, you can view the trail map as well as panels on the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. The interpretive panels are located to the left of the town hall, inside the front portion of the RV campground, with the Old Spanish Trail panels.

Originally called Half Moon Bluff, Caryville was established as a sawmill community around 1882 as the Pensacola & Atlantic Railroad (later the L&N) was completed across the Choctawhatchee River. The community quickly became a construction camp for the railroad's development. The workers used the bluff as an operations base, with materials transported up the Choctawhatchee River from Pensacola by steamboat. The town was named after the railroad executive R.M. Cary.