Timeline of Lot Purchases & Subdivision Developments
This is the Sale of Public Land Patent # 448336 from the United States of America to John J. Sullivan. Signed December 11th, 1914 by President Woodrow Wilson
This is the map of the Land District of West Florida. Surveyed by the men whose names are on the lower right corner of the map. The distances were measured with chains. The scale was 40 chains equaled an inch on the map. How much the men were paid is listed at the bottom.
Gulf Shore Manor is in the west half of the southeast quarter of Section 14 and Lot 2 of Section 23.
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In 1924, John Sullivan sold the property to a "spinster" Mildred Feldman, from Chicago Illinois.
George Manus, who was the original developer of Gulf Shore Manor, was a witness on this deed
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Yikes! Someone didn't pay their property taxes!
In 1938 A.B. Lowery purchased many of the beachfront lots in Gulf Shore Manor from the county tax collector. These lots were replatted in the 1990'2 as the subdivisions Jasmine Dunes and Sea Walk.
The lots were purchased for the amount of unpaid property taxes. A sum of $214.57.
In 1984 Walton County court case 84-368CA A.B. Lowery (in blue) and Harold Foshee (in pink) were declared owners in fee simple title to the land depicted as Gulf Shore Beach and Bathing Beach.
Click PDF to download Tax Deed 1938