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John Beasley Park. 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 ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
English: The maps use data from nationalatlas.gov, specifically countyp020.tar.gz on the Raw Data Download page. The maps also use state outline data from statesp020.tar.gz . The Florida maps use hydrogm020.tar.gz to display Lake Okeechobee.
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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]
Fort Walton Beach Councilman Travis Smith sat down with the Northwest Florida Daily News for the second installment of our 10 questions series.
Santa Rosa Island had been previously protected as a national monument from 1939 to 1946. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill , beginning on April 20, 2010, released masses of oil and tar which began washing ashore, in varying amounts, along the Gulf Islands National Seashore on June 1, 2010.
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