Shalimar, Florida
human settlement in Florida, United States of America
Shalimar is a town in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Crestview–Fort Walton Beach–Destin, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 737 at the 2020 census, up from 717 at the 2010 census.
History
During the First World War Germany stopped shipping dye to the United States. Silas Gibson was contracted to build a dye plant at Black Pointe. W. N. Hartgrove taught at a school at the dye plant. Dances and a "Hallowe'en social" would be hosted at the dye plant. The plant would close sometime in the early 1920s. In the 1950s, a myth would spread that 130 Germans operated the dye plant and it was "actually an explosives factory and probably a submarine base as well."
"In February 1927, the Choctawhatchee and Northern Railroad was chartered 'To construct, acquire, maintain, lease, or operate a line of railroad or railroads from a point between Galliver and Crestview on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Okaloosa County, to a point in said county on Choctawhatchee Bay, a distance of approximately twenty-eight miles.' On Garnier's Bayou near the present Eglin (Air Force Base) housing development of Shalimar, a $29,000,000 Port Dixie Harbor and Terminal Company was chartered to build wharves for liners, a rail line north, and a city of one square mile, with streets 100 feet wide." These ambitious plans would not see fruition.
Originally an area called "Port Dixie", the town "sprang up out of the woods" in 1943–1944, as a platted community of 160 houses to be used as housing for military officers by developer Clifford H. Meigs.
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