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Fort Walton Beach Homes for Sale
Details 473717, 828 TARPON DR, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $299,999.00
Details 490338, 24 WINDHAM AVE, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $129,900.00
Details 492179, 211 CALIFORNIA DRIVE, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $216,000.00
Details 492795, 40 OREGON DR, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $223,000.00
Details 466624, 333 YACHT CLUB DR, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $429,000.00
Details 478195, 57 YACHT CLUB DR, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $1,700,000.00
Details 473450, 247 SLEEPY OAKS RD, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $1,400,000.00
Details 488895, 154 BREWER CIR, MARY ESTHER, FL - $166,200.00
Details 487303, 3 JAMES PL, MARY ESTHER, FL - $219,000.00
Details 470456, 3 PLANTATION OAKS DR, MARY ESTHER, FL - $529,000.00
Details 406040, 2 PLANTATION OAKS DR, MARY ESTHER, FL - $589,000.00
Details 492964, 1621 ELLA RUTH DR, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $214,900.00
Details 492527, 661 RANDALL ROBERTS RD, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $225,000.00
Details 492816, 1610 SUTTON PL, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $225,000.00
Details 491416, 752 RANDALL ROBERTS RD, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $244,500.00
Details 492276, 1622 JANET LN, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $245,000.00
Details 492524, 1590 VENICE AVENUE, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $274,900.00
Details 492521, 1584 VENICE AVENUE, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $274,900.00
Details 487461, 490 HANOVER PORT LN, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $325,000.00
Details 487359, 492 HANOVER PORT LN, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $326,000.00
Details 491206, 652 OVERBROOK DR, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $389,000.00
Details 479780, 765 BARLEY PORT LN, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $399,900.00
Details 465154, 1603 LONDONDERRY CV, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $499,900.00
Details 454591, 1906 KADIMA CIR, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $255,000.00
Details 488300, 1902 KADIMA CIR, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $257,900.00
Details 452977, 811 WHITROCK LN, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $269,900.00
Details 487318, 1936 KADIMA CIR, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $309,000.00
Details 488046, 1205 BEACHVIEW DR, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $574,900.00
Details 483194, 30 BAYOU DR, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $699,000.00
Details 490898, 2411 PALM HARBOR DR, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $799,900.00
Details 493200, 2015 WOODFERN PATH, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $185,000.00
Details 486969, 954 SOUTHERN OAKS CT, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $189,000.00
Details 488756, 1808 BRICK CIR, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $205,000.00
Details 480810, 1971 PROCTERIDGE CT, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $249,000.00
Details 490413, 201 PINE STREET, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $289,000.00
Details 474266, 1585 VENICE AVE, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $305,000.00
Details 477819, 1215 FOREST HEIGHTS ROAD, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $374,900.00
Details 483387, 428 VERB ST, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $208,400.00
Details 469132, 1050 ROXANNA ROAD, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $625,000.00
Details 478599, 19 PARADISE POINT RD, SHALIMAR, FL - $1,465,000.00
Details 482889, 900 ELIZABETH LN, SHALIMAR, FL - $199,000.00
Details 486873, 218 GREEN DR, MARY ESTHER, FL - $169,900.00
Details 486874, 219 GREEN DR, MARY ESTHER, FL - $169,900.00
Details 482744, 48 BRENDA LN, MARY ESTHER, FL - $184,900.00
Details 492437, 485 MARKER COVE, MARY ESTHER, FL - $205,000.00
Details 439343, 1012 FREEPORT CT, MARY ESTHER, FL - $209,900.00
Details 491525, 21 KATHLEEN RD, MARY ESTHER, FL - $210,000.00
Details 487089, 324 WOODLAND AVE, MARY ESTHER, FL - $215,000.00
Details 483145, 447 FOREST GLEN PL, MARY ESTHER, FL - $233,000.00
Details 492409, 391 EAST PINE STREET, MARY ESTHER, FL - $275,000.00
Details 484736, 243 TECUMSEH LN, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - $434,900.00
Details 480344, 584 RADIANT CIR, MARY ESTHER, FL - $649,000.00
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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. Fort Walton Beach real estate is available and with the rising prices in the Destin area, many families are settling in Fort Walton Beach.
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.
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Okaloosa County was formed from two counties, Santa Rosa and Walton, in 1915, and Eglin Field was created in 1937. In 1930, the population of the area was approximately 90 people; between 1940-1950, the population quadrupled. Between 1950-1970, Fort Walton Beach grew 700% and was recognized nationally as one of the fastest growing cities in the country. The existing Brooks Bridge was built in 1964, replacing the two-lane swing bridge, Eglin Parkway was widened to six lanes, and seven new traffic lights were installed. The tax base expanded, the Fort Walton Beach Civic Center complex and auditorium were built, as well as neighborhood parks and tennis courts, the Library, the Senior Center, the Tennis Center, the Municipal Golf Course (now the Fort Walton Beach Golf Club), and three neighborhood recreation centers--Docie Bass, Chester Pruitt, and Fred Hedrick.
In the last two decades, growth in Fort Walton Beach has slowed, and today the City looks towards innovative and exciting ways to bring the spirit of yesterday into the plans of today and tomorrow. Activities continue on the banks of the Santa Rosa Sound, and every June, the notorious Billy Bowlegs returns for a fortnight of merriment and fun. The City sponsors quarterly Sunday in the Park events at the spot where there was once an over-the-water pavilion. In 1997, Fort Walton Beach was honored to be named by Money magazine as #10 Best Place to Live among the 300 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S.A. Come for a visit--we think you'll understand why!
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