Milton City, Santa Rosa County, Florida (FL) 32570

Milton City

Santa Rosa County, Florida

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Milton City Hall is located at 6738 Dixon Street, Milton, FL 32570.
Phone: 850‑983‑5400.

Neighborhoods

  • Adrian Woods
  • American Farms
  • Arlingwood
  • Arrowhead Estates
  • Ashton Woods
  • Avalon Beach
  • Avalon Park
  • Bagdad
  • Ballantrae
  • Bay Meadows
  • Bay Oaks
  • Bay Pointe Plantation
  • Bayou Landing
  • Bayside
  • Bayside North
  • Bayside South
  • Bayview Heights
  • Beaver Dam Estates
  • Ben-Mar Shores
  • Bernath Place
  • Blackshire Landing
  • Blackwater Bay Estates
  • Blackwater River
  • Bon Bay
  • Breckenridge
  • Casa Grande
  • Cedar Ridge Estates
  • Chandaler Cove
  • Chantilly Woods
  • Charleston Oaks
  • Clear Creek Estates
  • Clear Creek Farms
  • College Heights
  • College Park
  • Comares
  • Cottonwood
  • Country Club Estates
  • Country Squire
  • Crestline
  • Da Lisa Estates
  • Dalisa Place
  • Eagle Crest Estates
  • Emerald Forest
  • Escambia Bay Estates
  • Escambia Shores
  • Eventide Estates
  • Evergreen
  • Floridatown
  • Forest Grove
  • Garcon Point
  • Garcon Shores
  • Gardenbrook
  • Georgetown Estates
  • Glen Forest
  • Glover Lane
  • Golf Club
  • Green Acres
  • Greenwood Forest
  • Hamilton Bridge Cottages
  • Happy Acres
  • Harbour Oaks
  • Harvest Point
  • Hawks Nest
  • Hayes Heights
  • Hickory Hammock Estates
  • Highland Park
  • Highlands
  • Holiday Acres
  • Holly Ridge Estate
  • Hunters Ridge
  • Indian Bayou Estates
  • Jaimees Ridge
  • Jolene Estates
  • Kimberly Estates
  • Kingswood
  • Kingswood Estates
  • Lakewood Manor
  • Las Colinas
  • Leah Pines
  • Lynwood Park
  • Magnolia Bend
  • Magnolia Heights
  • Marblehead Estates
  • Marlborough Village
  • Meadowbrook
  • Mill-Joy Shores
  • Millers Bluff
  • Mills Bayou
  • Milton Heights
  • Milton Parkway
  • Monterey Shores
  • Nichols Lake
  • North Bass Estates
  • Northhills
  • Oak Meadows
  • Oakcrest
  • Ollinger
  • Pebble Ridge
  • Petersen Point
  • Pine Harbor
  • Pine Hill Acres
  • Pine Lake Estates
  • Plantation Woods
  • Point Hernandez
  • Raccoon Bayou
  • River Ranch
  • Robinhood Estates
  • Rolling Green Estate
  • Rolling Hills
  • Round-Up Valley
  • Royal Manor
  • Santa Villa
  • Scenic Shores
  • Sea Pines
  • Seneca Point
  • Sheridan Woods
  • Sherwood Park
  • Shields Point Plantation
  • Shiloh Village
  • Siesta Cove
  • Skyline Heights
  • Southern Manor
  • Spencer Manor
  • Starhill Estates
  • Sundial Estates
  • Tall Timber Estates
  • Tanglewood
  • Tanglewood East
  • Tanglewood Oaks
  • Tanglewood West
  • Taryns Estates
  • Thames
  • The Moors
  • Trout Bayou
  • Ventura Estates
  • Villa Garcon
  • Ward Basin
  • West Milton Heights
  • Westland Acres
  • Westwood
  • Whisper Creek
  • White Oak Estates
  • Windsor Villas
  • Woodbury Forest
  • Woodcrest Estates
  • Woodland Lake
  • Woodland Lake Heights
  • Woodridge Manor

The City of Milton was founded in 1844.

Milton as Described in 1939 [1]

Milton, seat of Santa Rosa County, was founded on the Blackwater River as a trading post in 1825. Like other north Florida communities of Territorial days, the town was built around a courthouse square. For many years the village could be reached only by river schooner or by stagecoach along the Geneva-Pensacola road. A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun wrote in 1851, "Milton has three sawmills running 99 saws, and three confectionaries, one known as 'Shades,' where home folk are wont to retire in the morning to partake of ice juleps ... We have a moral society which bids a hearty welcome to the good and virtuous that come among us, but woe to evil doers ... Our young ladies are beautiful, our wives lovely."

Before the War between the States thousands of bales of cotton and much wool from near-by plantations were brought here by mule teams, shipped down the river to Pensacola, and across the Gulf to northern points. Milton remains an important cotton-ginning center, and also has lumber mills, barrel-stave factories, and naval-stores plants. A block south of the bridge spanning the river is the site of an old ferry crossing, and near by are small shipbuilding yards and stores supplying fishermen.

  1. Federal Works Agency, Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Program, Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State, American Guide Series, Florida Department of Public Instruction, 1939.

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