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Laurel Hill, Florida. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Okaloosa. Associated ZIP codes: 32567.
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Laurel Hill is in Okaloosa County, Florida.
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This iconic Florida critter appears to have swallowed an Xbox just a couple of weeks before the release of GTA 6.
The craft brewery’s closure aligns with an increasing trend of similar taproom closures throughout Tampa Bay.
Republicans on Tuesday night swept the races for attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner.
Laurel Hill, near the Alabama line in northern Okaloosa County, has gone by several names. Wikipedia's account says the community was settled around 1821 as Almirante, Spanish for "admiral," and opened its own post office on January 31, 1827. A local newspaper history drawing on the Baker Block Museum says instead that it was first called Old California. Both agree it became Laurel Hill around the turn of the 20th century; the name is said to come from a large laurel tree at the center of town. A stagecoach inn stood just south of the present town in the 1850s.
The railroad turned the logging and farming settlement into a town. The Yellow River Railroad reached the area in the 1890s, opening the forests to a lumber boom, and in 1905 the Florida Legislature incorporated Laurel Hill, the first incorporated town in what would become Okaloosa County. By then it had daily trains, a post office, nine stores, churches and a newspaper, The Laurel Hill Gazette. Resident William H. Mapoles, who started The Laurel Hill News in 1908, helped bring about the creation of Okaloosa County in 1915. Laurel Hill was then the county's largest community, but it lost the race for county seat to Crestview. Hard times followed World War I and the collapse of the 1920s Florida land boom, which closed the town's only bank. Laurel Hill reincorporated on June 2, 1953, to fund new infrastructure. The rail line was abandoned in the 1980s, and since 1992 the town has celebrated its railroad past with the Laurel Hill Hobo Festival each October. Sources Wikipedia: Laurel Hill, Florida Crestview News Bulletin: Timber, turpentine, farms and railroads led to communities' establishment (citing the Baker Block Museum)
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