| The City of Fort Walton Beach,
home to approximately 22,000 people, was first created and
chartered as a municipality in 1937. Though Fort Walton Beach
is a relatively young city, its history actually goes back
thousands of years. There is evidence from radioactive dating
of artifacts back to 10,000 B.C., and archeological evidence
of five distinct Indian periods between 600 - 1650 A.D. There
were pirates, the most notorious being Billy Bowlegs between
1500 - 1800, and there was a Civil War encampment. In the
early days Fort Walton was known both as Brooks Landing when
John Thomas Brooks and his family settled here in 1868 and
Camp Walton for the Civil War encampment by the Walton Guards.
It was renamed Fort Walton when a Civil War cannon was discovered
in 1932 and excavated from an Indian mound in the present
downtown area on Santa Rosa Sound.
Tourists, resort hotels, and the waterfront have been a part
of Fort Walton Beach since its earliest days. Tourists came
from the North, Midwest, and Southeast to spend months at
a time at several of these full-service, American plan hotels
on the shores of the Santa Rosa Sound. Dancing nightly in
an over-the-water pavilion (where Fort Walton Landing is today),
taking a water taxi from the hotel docks back and forth across
the Sound to the beach, chartering fishing trips in the gulf
and bay, receiving ice and mail by boat from Pensacola, and
shopping in stores built over the water, visitors and locals
alike enjoyed the relaxed lifestyle for which Fort Walton
was famous.
|
Turn Key
Realty
One of the largest Fort Walton Beach real estate companies
specializing in Fort Walton Beach new homes, Fort Walton Beach
home builders, new home builder in Fort Walton Beach,
custom home builder Fort Walton Beach, Fort Walton Beach
builder, Fort Walton Beach pre construction,
Fort Walton Beach investment homes and Fort Walton Beach
new home developer.
With our rapidly growing list of buyers and
sellers we at Turn Key Realty would like to assist you in
the purchase of Fort Walton Beach real estate and Fort Walton Beach homes for sale. |
