"Crestview the Forkland"

The book is ready now and it is really great! Well worth the time and money. If it didn't have the interviews and the photos, it would still be wonderful. But with those items, it is in the "Not to be missed" category! (Mary Ellen Wexler)

The book is entitled "Crestview the Forkland" and contains 642 pages with 609 pictures. Authors are: Betty Sanders Curenton and Claudia Garrett Patten.

The book centers on the forkland between Yellow and Shoal Rivers north to Campton.

In Chapter 1 we start with the Indians who inhabited our area. There are 20 chapters in chronological order.

Chapter 2 deals with the earliest settlers in this area from 1823. We have listed all the earliest pioneers who held the first deeds to land between the Rivers.

Chapter 3 is The Railroad (1880-1879).

Chapter 4 - The Birth of Okaloosa 1900-1919,

Chapters 5 through 12 deals with each decade following, for instance,

Chapter 5 - The Twenties,

Chapter 6 - The Thirties, etc.

Chapter 13 covers Black History in Crestview,

Chapter 14 - Recollections of Some Crestview Oldtimers,

Chapter 15 - Family Histories and Personalities Plus,

Chapter 16 - Crestview Schools,

Chapter 17 - Crestview Churches,

Chapter 18 - Crestview US, State, County and Local Officials,

Chapter 19 - Crestview Post Offices and Postmasters,

and lastly Poems of Okaloosa by Crestview Poets in chapter 20.

It will sell for $47.00 plus tax. I'll have to get weight and cost for mailing next week.

So far we have the following places that have agreed to sell them for us:

Crestview Chamber Of Commerce
City Of Crestview (Mayor's Office)
Friends Of The Library (Crestview Library)
Moulton's Pharmacy
Baker Block Museum

And:

Homes of:
Betty Curenton

115 Phillips Drive
Crestview, Florida 32536
850-682-4588
E-Mail: bette@cfi.net

Claudia Patten
1 Del Cerro Camino
Crestview, Florida 32539
850-682-3809