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Welcome!<\/strong> The Walton County Timeline below is a work in progress. Please feel free to send additions and changes to WaltonCountyHeritage@cox.net. Use the search feature on the banner to look for people, places, and things. Enjoy!<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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1808<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The first non-Indian settlers arrived in the area. Most were originally from Scotland and had first landed in North Carolina before moving southwest.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1809<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The area was part of Spanish West Florida and was still inhabited mainly by Euchee<\/a> and Muscogee Creek<\/a> Indians.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1810<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Settlement was still sparse, with the region remaining a part of Spanish West Florida<\/a> and shared with Indians.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1811<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The area remained largely unsettled and tensely forested, with no formal government yet in place.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1812<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Spanish continued to control the area.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1813<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The region remained largely unsettled, and Indian communities still dominated.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1814<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The area was unstable as control and frontier pressures rose.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1815<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The frontier period continued, and the area still did not have a government.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1816<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Settlement and travel began to increase slowly, but the area remained remote and was mostly inhabited by Indians.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1817<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Conflict across Spanish West Florida intensified in the run-up to the First Seminole War<\/a>, which began on November 21, 1817.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1818<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Andrew Jackson<\/a> entered Spanish Florida on March 15 in search of Indians. The majority of Indians were in central Florida, but sizeable bands lived in northwest Florida.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1819<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Adams-Onis Treaty<\/a>, also known as the Florida Purchase Treaty, was signed on February 22, officially ceding Florida from Spain to the United States.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1820<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Neil McLennan<\/a> [often misspelled as McLendon] became one of the first white men to enter present day Walton County<\/a> for the purpose of making his home there. The area was named Eucheeanna<\/a>, which is said to honor the Euchee tribe and the wife of another settler, Anna McLeod. Such a woman has not been identified so the “anna” part of the name is unsubstantiated.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1821<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n