Editing Shalimar, Florida

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'''Shalimar''' is a town in [[Okaloosa County, Florida|Okaloosa County]], [[Florida]], [[United States]]. It is part of the [[Crestview, Florida|Crestview]]&ndash;[[Destin, Florida|Fort Walton Beach&ndash;Destin, Florida]] [[Fort Walton Beach-Crestview-Destin, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area|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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 23, 1981 |title=Okaloosa Pioneer dead at age 95 |work=[[Playground News]]|pages=2B}}</ref> W. N. Hartgrove taught at a school at the dye plant.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 5, 1920 |title=Garniers |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/1920-06-05/ed-1/seq-2/ |work=[[The Pensacola Journal]] |pages=2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=April 17, 1920 |title=Garniers |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/1920-04-17/ed-1/seq-8/ |work=[[The Pensacola Journal]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=May 10, 1920 |title=Garniers |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/1920-05-10/ed-1/seq-4/ |work=[[The Pensacola Journal]] |pages=4}}</ref> Dances and a "Hallowe'en social" would be hosted at the dye plant.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 2, 1919 |title=Garniers Bayou |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/1919-01-02/ed-1/seq-4/ |work=[[The Pensacola Journal]] |pages=4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=November 3, 1917 |title=Garniers |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/1917-11-03/ed-1/seq-5/ |work=[[The Pensacola Journal]] |pages=5}}</ref> 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."<ref>Angell, Joseph W., "History of the Army Air Forces Proving Ground Command - Part One - Background of Eglin Field  1933-1940", The Historical Branch, Army Air Forces Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field, Florida, 1944, reprint by Office of History, Munitions Systems Division, Eglin AFB, Florida, 1989, page 34.</ref><ref>Fort Walton Beach, Florida, "The Eglin Story: Germans Operated a Plant To Make Dye at Port Dixie", ''[[Playground News]]'', Thursday October 6, 1955, Volume 9, Number 87, page 3.</ref>

"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|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."<ref>Angell, Joseph W., "History of the Army Air Forces Proving Ground Command - Part One - Background of Eglin Field 1933-1940", The Historical Branch, Army Air Forces Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field, Florida, 1944, reprint by Office of History, Munitions Systems Division, Eglin AFB, Florida, 1989, pages 36-37.</ref> 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 [[plat|platted]] community of 160 houses to be used as housing for military officers by developer Clifford H. Meigs.<ref name="Fort Walton 1948, page 1">Fort Walton, Florida, "Shalimar Strides Into Second Year", ''[[Playground News]]'', Thursday July 1, 1948, Volume 3, Number 22, page 1.</ref>

Badly needed new homes were constructed beginning in 1942, by Clifford Meigs and his associates to provide adequate facilities for commissioned officers assigned at the rapidly expanding [[Eglin Field]], immediately north of what was initially referred to as "Shalimar Park". This land was acquired from [[James E. Plew]]. The first 50 homes were almost complete by May, with another 25 underway, with the entire project costing approximately $350,000. The Plew Heights housing project near [[Valparaiso, Florida]] had been erected in 1941 to take care of civil service employees and enlisted personnel, but the government made no provision for commissioned officers.<ref>Crestview, Florida, "Shalimar Project In Use - Families Of Officers Now Moving Into New Spacious Quarters",  ''[[Northwest Florida Daily News|Okaloosa News-Journal]]'', Friday May 15, 1942, Volume 28, Number 17, page 1.</ref>

A new post office opened in Shalimar on July 1, 1943, with Clifford H. Meigs serving as the first postmaster. Previously, mail for the new community was handled through Valparaiso, Florida.<ref>Crestview, Florida, "Shalimar Now Has New Post Office", ''[[Northwest Florida Daily News|Okaloosa News-Journal]]'', Friday July 3, 1943, Volume 30, Number 20, page 1.</ref>

The "'''''Town of Shalimar'''''" was officially incorporated as a municipality in June 1947, and Clifford Meigs served as its first mayor. The incorporation was directly related to state law that prohibited clubs in unincorporated areas from staying open from midnight Saturday until Monday morning, which would negatively impact the gambling operations at the casino of the Shalimar Club, the opening of which "was the social event of 1947."<ref name="Dobson, Henry Allen 1974">Dobson, Henry Allen, "A History of Okaloosa County, Florida", A Thesis Presented to the Graduate Faculty of [[Southeastern Louisiana University]], June 1974.</ref><ref name=ShaInc/><ref name=ShalInco/> The [[Fort Walton Beach]] [sic - [[Fort Walton]] did not become Fort Walton Beach until June, 1953] places were doing a booming business on the weekends while there were rumors that the sheriff might enforce the law in Shalimar and close the place there," Meigs told the ''[[Northwest Florida Daily News|Playground News]]'' in 1959. "The owner came to me and suggested incorporation, and while I didn't think I had much to gain then, I agreed. With only about three other freeholders in the area, it was a simple matter to get incorporated."<ref name="Holland, Elizabeth E. 1990">Holland, Elizabeth E., staff writer, "Our Town", ''[[Northwest Florida Daily News]]'', Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Monday 25 June 1990.</ref> The reprieve on gambling would be temporary, however. "The collapse of Okaloosa gambling was brought about by the glare of outside publicity, reform zeal from within and the direct intervention of Gov. [[Fuller Warren]]. The first wind of adversity was blown by the ''[[Tampa Tribune]]'''s exposé of gambling in Fort Walton."<ref name="Dobson, Henry Allen 1974"/> The 1949 article led to the governor suspending Okaloosa County Sheriff Isle Enzor and two constables in 1950, for failure to enforce the state gambling laws. The popular Enzor was reelected in 1952, but gambling was on the way out. "Back on the job and converted to the cause, Sheriff Enzor began cracking down, and soon even the Shalimar Club was turning to more 'legitimate' forms of entertainment. But without gambling, it was just another nightspot. The Shalimar closed for good in 1956."<ref>Jackson, Harvey H., "The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Inside History of the Florida-Alabama Coast", [[University of Georgia Press]], Athens, Georgia, 2012, [[Library of Congress]] control number 2011040110, {{ISBN|978-0-8203-3400-4}}, Chapter Three, "Bring 'em Down, Keep 'em Happy, And Keep 'em Spending", pages 46-47.</ref>

In 1948, the town features included the Shalimar Store, the Shalimar Service Station, and lumberman and Shalimar resident Roger Clary's Shalimar Club. The 160 residences were rented through Shalimar Homes and Meigs Homes corporations.<ref name="Fort Walton 1948, page 1"/>

In 1950, the 280-car capacity Florida Drive-In Theatre, erected at a cost of ~$40,000, at the junction of Ferry Road and State Road 85, later Eglin Parkway, the main road between the air force base and [[Fort Walton, Florida]], opened on Thursday, June 15, with an [[Esther Williams]] picture, "''[[On an Island with You]]''".<ref>Fort Walton, Florida, "New Florida Drive-In Sets Formal Opening", ''[[Playground News]]'', Thursday June 15, 1950, Volume 5, Number 20, pages 1, 8.</ref> Operated by the James K. Tringas family, that also built the Tringas Theatre in Fort Walton in 1940, (which is, ironically, still in business and being refurbished to its former glory in 2019), the drive-in would close in the fall of 1973. This property is now occupied by the Shalimar United Methodist Church family life center and a furniture store, which property is also owned by the church.
[[File:Mayor Clifford Meigs.png|thumb|205x205px|Clifford Meigs, the first mayor of Shalimar.]]
The Louis Woodham Concrete Company, which would provide construction materials for the growing Shalimar area, was established at Dixie Point at the end of Ferry Road by 1956,<ref>Display advert, ''[[Northwest Florida Daily News|Okaloosa News-Journal]]'', Crestview, Florida, Thursday October 4, 1956, Volume 42, Number 40, page 8.</ref> and would survive into the late 1970s, before being replaced by condominiums. It was regularly supplied by [[towboat]]s with barges of raw materials which transited across the [[Choctawhatchee Bay]] from the [[Intracoastal Waterway]] on the south edge of the bay. A Coast Guard tripod navigation marker in the bay just offshore of Meig's Beach, Port Dixie, was removed after merchant commerce ceased to Ferry Point. The end of water deliveries to Ferry Point marked the last gasp of "Port Dixie" as once envisioned.

Clifford Meigs served as mayor until his death in 1960, and was succeeded by his brother Clyde Meigs in November, who had served as a councilman.<ref>Fort Walton Beach, Florida, "Clyde Meigs Named Mayor of Shalimar", ''[[Playground News]]'', November 15, 1960, Volume 15, Number "43" (actually 44), page 1.</ref> The first elected mayor was James P. Tras, in 1965, followed by Sarah Tras for a two to three-year term. She had been married to Clifford Meigs at the time of his death, and is the wife of Jim Tras, {{As of|2009|lc=y}}.<ref name="Holland, Elizabeth E. 1990"/> Residential Meigs Drive, paralleling the Choctawhatchee Bay, Clifford Drive and Sara Drive are all named for the town's founding family. Carl Brandt Drive and [[Grandison Gardner|Gardner Drive]] are named for former [[Eglin AFB]] commanders.

During [[World War II]], Eglin water range 60 was located in the bay immediately south of Port Dixie, with a battleship-size target float anchored off of Black Pointe.

The [[Lake Lorraine]] area  at Black Pointe to the east of the incorporated Shalimar community was developed in the 1970s, but carries a Shalimar postal address.

The [http://poquitobayou.com/ Poquito Bayou] area north of the incorporated Shalimar also carries a Shalimar postal address.

The mostly residential area of [[Okaloosa County]] between Shalimar and Lake Lorraine continues to be referred to as Port Dixie.
  
==Geography==
The approximate coordinates for the Town of Shalimar is located at {{Coord|30|26|40|N|86|34|55|W|region:US-FL_type:city(718)}} (30.444398, –86.581904).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|0.3|sqmi|km2}}, all land.

==Climate==
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild winters. According to the [[Köppen climate classification]], the Town of Shalimar has a [[humid subtropical climate]] zone (''Cfa'').

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1950= 694
|1960= 754
|1970= 578
|1980= 390
|1990= 341
|2000= 718
|2010= 717
|2020= 737
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
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===2010 and 2020 census===
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|+'''Shalimar racial composition'''<br> (Hispanics excluded from racial categories)<br> (''NH = Non-Hispanic'')<br>
!Race
!Pop 2010<ref>{{Cite web|title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE - 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) - Shalimar town, Florida|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=Shalimar+town;+Florida+&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!Pop 2020<ref>{{Cite web|title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE - 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) - Shalimar town, Florida|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=Shalimar+town;+Florida+&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
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!% 2020
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|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] (NH)
|604
|569
|84.24%
|77.20%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] (NH)
|22
|23
|3.07%
|3.12%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] (NH)
|7
|0
|0.98%
|0.00%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] (NH)
|26
|23
|3.63%
|3.12%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] or [[Native Hawaiian]] (NH)
|8
|1
|1.12%
|0.14%
|-
|[[Other races (U.S. Census)|Some other race]] (NH)
|0
|2
|0.00%
|0.27%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Two or more races/Multiracial]] (NH)
|10
|33
|1.39%
|4.48%
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|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|40
|86
|5.58%
|11.67%
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|'''Total'''
|'''717'''
|'''737'''
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As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 737 people, 329 households, and 206 families residing in the town.<ref>{{Cite web|title=S1101 HOUSEHOLDS AND FAMILIES - 2020: Shalimar town, Florida|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=Shalimar+town;+Florida+&tid=ACSST5Y2020.S1101|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>

As of the [[2010 United States census]], there were 717 people, 358 households, and 281 families residing in the town.<ref>{{Cite web|title=S1101 HOUSEHOLDS AND FAMILIES - 2010: Shalimar town, Florida|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=Shalimar+town;+Florida+&tid=ACSST5Y2010.S1101|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>

===2000 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=January 31, 2008|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref> of 2000, there were 718 people, 288 households, and 209 families residing in the town. The population density was {{convert|2,441.6|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 311 housing units at an average density of {{convert|1,057.6|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}.  The racial makeup of the town was 89.42% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 5.85% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.42% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 2.51% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.84% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 0.97% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 1.81% of the population.

In 2000, there were 288 households, out of which 31.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.6% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 5.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.1% were non-families. 21.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 2.94.

In 2000, in the town, the population was spread out, with 24.9% under the age of 18, 4.9% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 28.4% from 45 to 64, and 11.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.6 males.

In 2000, the median income for a household in the town was $63,068, and the median income for a family was $70,250. Males had a median income of $51,250 versus $27,143 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the town was $29,261. About 2.9% of families and 3.1% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 3.8% of those under age 18 and 3.3% of those age 65 or over.

==Commerce==
Shalimar has one commercial artery, [[Florida State Road 85|Eglin Parkway]], and most business enterprises are located within a block of State Road 85. A mix of office parks (many occupied by military contractors), restaurants, convenience stores with fuel islands, a furniture store, a [[Fairfield Inn by Marriott]] hotel, and other assorted small firms comprise the short business corridor. For a time in the 1960s–1970s, the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] had "front" offices in Shalimar. This office may have been involved as a test project office for the [[Lockheed U-2]], with which [[Fort Walton Beach]] resident, World War II exile Polish pilot, and CIA officer, [[Ksawery Wyrożemski]] was involved, but which was a cover for CIA flight operations out of Duke Field.<ref>"Holm, Richard L., "A Plane Crash, Rescue, and Recovery - A Close Call in Africa", [[Center for the Study of Intelligence]], Historical Perspectives, Washington, D.C., Winter 1999-2000, footnote 2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070613112104/https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter99-00/art2.html]</ref> [[Okaloosa County]] Sheriff's offices are located in Shalimar. An Okaloosa County courthouse annex, erected in 1975 on land made available by the Meigs family, was razed in the last week of June 2014, after standing vacant for several years. Ground was broken on 29 September 2014 for a new $12 million 64,000 square foot 3-story Okaloosa County Administration Building on the former courthouse annex site. The new facility, under construction by Lord and Son, will house a variety of services, including a large space for County Commission meetings, Supervisor of Elections events, a gross management department, information systems, as well as facilities for the tax collector and supervisor of elections.<ref>Freeman, Danielle, "Breaking Ground On County Administration Building In Shalimar", ''[[WUWF|WUWF Public Media]]'', Pensacola, Florida, Tuesday September 30, 2014.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wuwf.org/post/breaking-ground-county-administration-building-shalimar|title = Breaking Ground on County Administration Building in Shalimar|date = September 30, 2014}}</ref>

==Education==
Some of the land that Clifford Meigs owned was donated to Okaloosa County for the establishment of a school. When it was finished it was named [[Choctawhatchee High School|Choctawhatchee (Choctaw for short) High School]], opening September 22, 1952. In 1969 the area needed a middle school, so Okaloosa School District built a new high school in [[Fort Walton Beach, Florida|Fort Walton Beach]]. The previous school was renamed to Clifford Meigs Junior High School, later Clifford Meigs Middle School (Meigs Middle School for short). The football field is known as Meigs Stadium (which is now named in honor of a passed coach). Meigs Middle School, Shalimar Elementary School and Longwood Elementary School are currently (2009) A Schools according to the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. [http://www.meigsmiddleschool.com Clifford Meigs Middle School] is now an A+ school (2013) In fact, most schools in the Okaloosa County School District are A schools in 2009.<ref name="FLDOE">[http://fcat.fldoe.org/mediapacket/2009/default.asp Florida Department Of Education] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627005723/http://fcat.fldoe.org/mediapacket/2009/default.asp |date=June 27, 2009 }}, [[Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test|FCAT]] Results, 2009</ref>

==Library==
The Shalimar Library was established in 1996 when resident Janet Casanova gathered residents interested in opening a non-profit library for the town. Founding member Velma Bruner rented out a small log cabin behind the Aegean restaurant off Eglin Parkway, which the volunteers turned into a library-thrift shop. In 2017, the library was moved to a larger facility at 115 Richbourg Avenue, where it still stands in 2021.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Shalimar Library|url=http://shalimarlibrary.org/news.html|access-date=November 29, 2021|website=shalimarlibrary.org}}</ref>

The building was designed by retired architect Allen Hemmer, who took on the task as a volunteer. The new location is thought to be the final resting place of a founder of the Fort Walton Beach community, Augustus "Gus" Tart. A former slave, Tart became a known hunting and fishing expert in the community, and the library has created a memorial for Tart with a fenced off area and new headstone.<ref name=":0"/>

As per their official website, the volunteers and members of the library "are concerned citizens who share the belief that a strong library is a valuable intellectual, cultural, educational, and recreational resource in the community."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Shalimar Library|url=http://www.shalimarflorida.org/shalimar-library.html|access-date=November 29, 2021|website=www.shalimarflorida.org}}</ref> The library is run entirely by volunteers which number over 50 as of 2020.<ref name=":0" /> It is supported by membership fines and earnings from the thrift store hosted within the building. The thrift store runs off of donations from the Shalimar community, including clothing, shoes, toys, excess books, and more.

Library membership may be acquired with a $15 fine renewable yearly, and is available to any resident of Okaloosa County. The membership includes access to a growing collection of books, CDs and magazines, eligibility to participate in the adult book discussion and children's programs, as well as Internet Access.<ref name=":1" />

==Notable people==
* [[Bud Day|George E."Bud" Day]], former [[Medal of Honor]] Recipient, [[Prisoner of War|Prisoner of War, Vietnam]], Colonel, [[United States Air Force|USAF]]
* [[Leroy J. Manor]], former [[U.S. Air Force]] Lieutenant General

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.shalimarflorida.org/ Town of Shalimar] official site
* [http://www.nwfdailynews.com/ Northwest Florida Daily News]

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