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This is where you may post queries, photos, and other items of interest. Also, please remember that this site is searchable.

Please submit (and date) your items:

You may drop items off at the museum to be included here. That would be the preferred way, however if you are from out of town simply e-mail them to Mary Ellen Wexler: Xme@wexonline.net 

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re:  
Vendor Application, Heritage Day on Saturday, 8 November 2008
      Download this application and mail or bring it to the museum during regular business hours.

re:  The Heritage of Okaloosa County, FL. Volume II is now on sale at the museum.  Cost is 63.80 (less than you children's high school annual).  Call, stop in or order on line.
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re:    The museum is sponsoring an art show scheduled for late October, 2008,  the theme is FOLK ART .  Artists will display their work in Henderson Park which is adjacent to the museum.  That's the corner of Hwy 189 and Route 4 in Baker, FL.  The committee has just formed and will soon have artist applications, ads and schedules on line and in the newspapers.  Watch for the Artist's Application Form which will appear on our site very soon.  It promises to be a great day to just come and browze as well as an opportunity to purchase a early Christmas gift.
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re:   Do you Know who this lady is ?
We believe she is from the Florida panhandle area.  Perhaps from the Ruckel family. Please email us or phone (850)537-5714. We are willing to give the original to the family.  It is such a nice photo; we want to give her a name/home.
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re:  Oral History CD - An interview with Bob Merritt.  Contact the museum's Curator if you wish to view or transcribe data from this CD.
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re:  Harp Family - if you are researching this family in Okaloosa, Walton, Santa Rosa counties, please contact the Curator who has more information on the family.
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re:  Eglin homestead:
There is a homestead at T1N-R20W Section 32, the main landowners in that area are Daniel Sanford, William Sanford, James Reddick, H. W. Reddick, J. D. Shaw, Hiram Spears, Horace Godwin, Malcolm Shaw, and Matthew Cauley.  If anyone is a descendant of one of these folks, or knows anything about a homestead in theis are,  James Mathews who is working on the archeaology of Eglin, would like to talk to you.  He may be reached at Prentice Thomas Associates: 850-243-5992. He is interested inhearing about any homesteader who lived within the Eglin reserve, so please call him.
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re:  Jim Taylor
Hi. I am researching my gg grandfather Jim Taylor. He was married to Adeline "Daught" Steele and they lived in Laurel Hill. Adeline was born in 1858 and died in 1946. Not much is known about Jim. Family lore says that he had a job at the post office in Laurel Hill but got into trouble there and fled to Texas leaving his family behind. I know nothing of his parentage. I am including the wedding pictures of Jim and Adeline's two sons Josephus born in 1890 and Henry Herbert born in 1893. I have found Adeline in the 1885 census as single and in the 1900 census with just she and the boys. I have been unable to find Jim Taylor on any record. I am hoping to visit your facility in March. I live in Pennsylvania.
Thank you so much,
Rene Schaffer
pagirl@epix.net
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re:  A Walton County Circuit Court Seal was found in Eucheeanna. If you know anything about it or can shed some light on the year it may have been made or used, please contact Donald Perring attwoperr@cox.net  or phone: 850-689-1731