In a story about Mack Edge, it states that his pet squirrel named Walter bit him on his finger, and the wound did not heal. Mack eventually went to a doctor in Milton who apparently removed his finger (“When he returned he had the finger in a bottle”) and told him he had untreatable rabies. […]
In a story called, “David Donaldson (left) My Great Grandfather” it states, in part: “Benjamin [Donaldson] served three years in the Confederate Army, was captured by the Yankees and finally joined up with the Union forces at Barrancas in Pensacola. Ben was a blacksmith and his young son Dave worked with him tending the feet […]
Joel Turner Alford was born on May 2, 1929. He and his wife had six children and attended Oak Grove Baptist Church. Alford was a heavy equipment operator who worked in law enforcement for twelve years. He was at various times the Chief Deputy for the Walton County Sheriff’s Department and the Chief of Police […]
Daniel Clayton Adkinson was born on July 20, 1897, in Walton County. He was one of six children of Jason D. and Annie Infinger Adkinson. He was educated in the public schools of Walton and Santa Rosa counties and taught school in both counties until the United States entered World War I. He enlisted in […]
This undated photograph shows the busy town of Darlington about 100 years ago. According to Sally Merrifield of Merrifield & Pilcher Realty, the store on the right was either Moore’s Store or Green’s Store. There was a huge turpentine industry there until the early 1940s. It disappeared and so did the business communities in Gaskin […]
The Murmuring Surf Cottages were located on Scenic Highway 98, across from Embassy Suites in Miramar Beach. In 2007, I posted a couple of photos on a message board and asked for information about Murmuring Surf. I was delighted when Clay Terry, the daughter of the owners, wrote to me. She graciously gave me permission […]
John “Buck” Crews was a Deputy U.S. Marshall who was born in Isagora (Holmes County) on July 12, 1866, after his father, George Washington Crews, completed service in Company K of the 6th Alabama Cavalry. Buck married Annie Laura Ward on January 7, 1889, in Isagora. Annie Laura was born in Red Bay to William […]
The house at Eden Gardens State Park was built with native yellow pine by William H. Wesley for his wife Katie between 1895 and 1897. It was almost identical to the nearby home of Katie’s parents, Simeon and Louisa Strickland. William Wesley died in 1947, and Katie died in 1953. The house sat vacant after […]
Masonic Lodge No. 170 was built at the corner of Eighth and Nelson Avenue in 1920. The lodge met upstairs and rented the downstairs to a furniture store. By the end of the 1920s, the first floor was used by a wholesale grocery company for storage. In the early 1930s, the Masons could not afford […]
Murdock Gillis McQuagge (1843-1930) and his wife, Minerva Gainer McQuagge (1888-1952), were the parents of nine children, including Duncan Gillis McQuagge, the Bay County Tax Assessor from 1932 until 1952. Murdock’s father, Norman Daniel McQuagge, moved to Florida from North Carolina in the 1830s and settled in Walton County. Murdock was a farmer in Knox […]