Okaloosa Area Beaches - Fort Walton Beach Beach

  • Address: Fort Walton Beach, Florida, USA
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Okaloosa Area Beaches
Fort Walton Beach
Florida, USA

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  • The City of Fort Walton Beach, home to approximately 22,000 people, was first created andchartered as a municipality in 1937. Though Fort Walton Beach is a relatively young city, itshistory actually goes back thousands of years.There is evidence from radioactive dating of artifacts back to 10,000 B.C., and archeologicalevidence of five distinct Indian periods between 600 - 1650 A.D. There were pirates, the mostnotorious being Billy Bowlegs between 1500 - 1800, and there was a Civil War encampment. Inthe early days Fort Walton was known both as Brooks Landing when John Thomas Brooks andhis family settled here ... more on goingtothebeach.com

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