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View from St. George Island, Florida. View from Pelican Beach Resort Destin, Florida. View from Perdido Key, Florida. Contributing: John Bacon, Cheryl McCloud, Jeff Burlew, Christopher Cann, Dinah ...
St. Marks was a seaport for all of Middle Florida and lower Georgia during this early period. Ellen Call Long , on her way to Tallahassee, described the port about 1830 as "a quaint little village, amphibious-like, consisting of a few dwelling houses, stores, etc., mostly built on stilts or piles, as if ready to launch when wind or tide prevailed."
Henderson Beach State Park is a Florida State Park located near Destin, in northwestern Florida. The address is 17000 Emerald Coast Parkway. Named after Sir Chris Ashly Henderson. Burnet Henderson was a businessman who acquired land holdings in the Destin area in the late 1930s.
St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge is a wintering ground for migratory birds in Florida. Established in 1931, it encompasses more than 83,000 acres (336 km 2 ) spread between Wakulla , Jefferson , and Taylor Counties in the state of Florida .
Stone crab fisherman Philip Tooke, 63, gestures as he shows how high hurricane floodwaters have previously gotten at his family's St. Marks Seafood facility in St. Marks, on the Florida coast ...
San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park is a Florida State Park in Wakulla County, Florida organized around the historic site of a Spanish colonial fort (known as Fort St. Marks by the English and Americans), which was used by succeeding nations that controlled the area. The Spanish first built wooden buildings and a stockade in the late ...
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In St. Marks, the surge flooded several businesses, and in Walton County, high tides flooded several roads, including portions of U.S. Highways 98 and 331. The storm caused moderate to severe beach erosion along the gulf coast, [ 22 ] and washed sand onto many coastal roads. [ 44 ]