Moore – Walton Past to Present

The Florida Legislature, 1919

By DianeMerkel | November 10, 2022 - 11:17 am |November 10, 2022 Government

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House, Walton County: D. Stuart Gillis, DeFuniak Springs

Darlington

By DianeMerkel | October 4, 2019 - 5:55 am |October 5, 2019 Darlington, Uncategorized

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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… Continue reading →

Hotel DeFuniak

By DianeMerkel | April 26, 2019 - 7:51 am |April 18, 2019 Hotels and Motels

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The original Hotel DeFuniak stood on Baldwin Avenue between Tenth and Eleventh Streets. The location is now vacant and is often referred to as the Piggly Wiggly parking lot. In the 1890s, the hotel was known as the Martin House. At some point in the mid-1900s, it was purchased by… Continue reading →