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Shalimar, Florida. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Okaloosa. Associated ZIP codes: 32579.
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A missing Florida man has been identified a decade after he disappeared, following the discovery of human remains on Eglin Air Force Base property.
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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.
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Shalimar is in Okaloosa County, Florida.
Region: North 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.
Shalimar was built almost overnight in World War II. As Eglin Field expanded rapidly in the early 1940s, developer Clifford H. Meigs and his associates began building homes for officers assigned to the base in 1942, on land acquired from Valparaiso promoter James E. Plew. In 1943 and 1944 a community of 160 houses, first called Port Dixie, "sprang up out of the woods" on the shore of Choctawhatchee Bay. A post office opened on July 1, 1943, with Meigs as postmaster; before that, mail had come through Valparaiso.
The point had an earlier history. During World War I, when Germany stopped shipping dyes to the United States, Silas Gibson was contracted to build a dye plant at Black Pointe; it closed in the early 1920s, and a later story that it was an explosives factory is a myth. In 1927 the Port Dixie Harbor and Terminal Company was chartered with ambitious plans that never came to pass. The Town of Shalimar was incorporated in June 1947, a move that followed a new state law on club hours that threatened gambling at Roger Clary's Shalimar Club. Meigs became the first mayor; he recalled that there were only about three other landowners in the area, which made incorporation simple. Gambling was suppressed in the early 1950s and the club closed in 1956. Choctawhatchee High School opened in 1952 on land Meigs donated, and when Meigs died in 1960 his brother Clyde succeeded him as mayor. Sources Wikipedia: Shalimar, Florida (citing the Playground News, the Okaloosa News-Journal and other local histories)
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