Boggy Bayou: Around Niceville and Valparaiso

by Heritage Museum of Northwest Florida and The Heritage Museum of Northwest Florida

Book Overview

Located just north of Florida's Gulf Coast, the twin cities of Niceville and Valparaiso nestle side by side along the shores of Boggy Bayou. Although they are now dynamic modern communities, the land they occupy remained a wilderness long after the rest of Florida was settled. After the Civil War, early homesteaders carved out a meager existence by making turpentine, sawing lumber from the pine forests, and harvesting fish from the waterways. In the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073854163X
• ISBN13: 9780738541631
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.3"