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Divers in the Florida Panhandle carried out an underwater cleanup around the Okaloosa Island Pier in Fort Walton Beach, finding car keys and a tire among the detritus on the seabed, footage posted ...
An 875-acre (354 ha) parcel of Santa Rosa Island with 3 miles (4.8 km) of Gulf frontage was conveyed to Okaloosa County on July 8, 1950, in an informal ceremony at the county courthouse in Crestview. The county paid the federal government $4,000 to complete the transaction, which was the result of the efforts of Congressman Bob Sikes. [1]
The portion of Santa Rosa Island transferred is now known as Okaloosa Island. The twelve-mile (19 km) long beach road onto U.S. Air Force property, west of the Okaloosa Island portion of Santa Rosa Boulevard, was unguarded and accessible into the 1990s, but heightened security concerns have since led to it being guarded or blocked at all times.
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John C. Beasley Park, formerly known as John Beasley Wayside Park, is a public beach area on Okaloosa Island in Florida. It was established as a state park to provide beach access for negroes during the era of segregation. After desegregation it was turned over to the Okaloosa County. [1] The park is named for John C. Beasley. [2]
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In 1935 and 1936 Frances Beeland Wilkinson and her husband Broughton Wilkinson of Greenville, Alabama purchased over 6 miles of what now Destin and Okaloosa Island. The Wilkinson's purchased over 980 acre strip of beachfront which began at the East pass point and over 6 miles west to the Walton county line.
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