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Before the area was known as Fort Walton Beach, it bore the name Camp Walton, after the Confederate Army encampment that existed there in the 1860s. In 1911, a native pine and oak school house was built for area children, which opened in 1912 with fifteen students and one teacher. Grades 1-8 were taught in the one-room schoolhouse. In 1927, an extra room was added, and one more teacher hired to instruct students from grades 9-12. The school was closed in 1936 when the all-brick Fort Walton School was erected nearby. Visitors to the schoolhouse can see how early classrooms were set up, view actual artifacts of the school, and see under what primitive conditions students and teachers existed in the early days of Florida education.

127 Miracle Strip Parkway SE, Fort Walton Beach, Florida 32548, Phone: 850-833-9595

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