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About Perdido Key Real Estate - Florida

We at Gulf Beach Realty are your local Perdido Key Florida area Real Estate Brokers. This web site will help you find Perdido Key Fl waterfront, Gulf, Beach, Bay, sound, canal, bayou, Intercoastal waterview, and Perdido Key investment Real Estate. We also cover the Western area of Pensacola including Gulf Beach, Perdido Bay, Innerarity Island, Grande lagoon, Mill View, Dog track, Myrtle Grove, Navy Point, Chandelle, Chevalier, Sea Glades, Landfall, Herron Forrest, Perdido Estates, and Warrington area Real Estate that you are looking for. Our "Broker only" service is Free to buyers and we have Very competitive rates for the sellers of property. We specialize in: residential, commercial and investment property including 1031 tax free transfers. The various types of properties include: Condos, luxury Gulf Beach front condos, penthouse condos, waterfront land, townhouses, luxury homes, Perdido Key condos, villas, mansions, and new oceanfront homes and other new home construction.

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Are you planning to sell your home on the West side of Pensacola out to Perdido Key or possibly want to find out what your home is worth? Click on your "sell property tab". This page will assist you with a lot of specific information concerning selling your home. After your review, please click on the CMA form and request a current market analysis from us. We provide very sophisticated marketing for your home using all the techniques we discuss on that sell property page. We are a FULL SERVICE BROKERAGE and provide top of the line marketing services with extensive internet and National marketing exposure. After you talk to us, I know you will be very satisfied with our services and our very competitive rates. We look forward to you contacting us.

Perdido Key FL History

Perdido Key Florida Real Estate - Perdido Key (Spanish for "Lost Island") is said to have once had an estimated 300 natural springs bubbling up from the sandy bottom. There were so many around the bridge that when construction on the high-rise bridge began, bridge engineers were appalled to see pilings sinking down below the surface, following the soft course of a natural spring. They had their work cut out to build cofferdams to shore up the pilings to prevent them from sinking.

It was not until about 1933 that Perdido Key Island became an Island. This area was really only a small peninsula just to the West of Pensacola. Up until that time the area was one piece of land with a large ditch, narrow enough to jump across, and sometimes filled with alligators. This ditch would become the Intercoastal Waterway in 1933.

An Intercoastal Waterway (ICW) that would connect Pensacola to Mobile Bay was started during 1931 during the height of the Great Depression. That digging that would connect Pensacola, Big Lagoon which is also known as Grande Lagoon, Perdido Bay, and Mobile Bay was completed in 1933. Perdido Key Island is now about 16 miles long with almost 60 Percent of it (9 & 1/2 miles) located in Federal or State parks: The parks comprise Gulf Island National Seashore, Johnson Beach, and Perdido Key State Recreation Park.  In 1978 the National Park Service completed purchase of over 1,000 acres of land on Perdido Key, from Johnson Beach to Pensacola Pass for about $ 8 million dollars. For years this general area was called Gulf Beach and slowly it evolved into being called Perdido Key. Many "old timers" still slip and call the area Gulf Beach. Gulf Beach Realty Inc. was named for this general Real Estate market area.

To the South of Perdido Key is the Beautiful Gulf of Mexico with it's "Sugar White Sand Beaches" and clear blue waters. To the North of Perdido Key is Old River and the Intercoastal Waterway. Just North of Old River is the Private Alabama Island of Ono Island. North of Ono and separated by the Intercoastal Waterway (ICW) is a small area called Innerarity Point and Innerarity Island. Innerarity Island is a small private gated island community of mostly single family homes with a few town homes at the entrance. Almost all of these waterways are accessible by boat and can give passage to the Gulf of Mexico via the Alabama Pass in Orange Beach Alabama or the major harbor entrance of Pensacola pass. These waterways are comprised of: Old River, Intercoastal Waterway (ICW), Perdido Bay, Pensacola Bay, Escambia Bay, Black Water River, Perdido River, Styx River, and a myriad of boatable Canals, Bayous and lakes. The inland waterways have historically given protection from the storms and hurricanes this area has had in the past. This area has many homes lining the waterfront with beautiful views and many times the ability of putting your private boat in front of your home for instant use and fishing. Generally it is only a few miles to the White sand beaches of the Gulf of Mexico.

Ono Island is said to be once known as "George Kee's Island," and also known as "Goat Island." Originally George Ray Kee built the only house on the island, at the eastern end near Rabbit Island. He brought in more goats, allowed them to roam free until there were an estimated 2,000 goats on the island plus the Wild hogs that Kee allowed anyone to shoot for food. The hogs served a useful purpose. Hogs will eat rattlesnakes, which along with coons, were all over the island. If a rattler struck a hog it was usually on the muzzle, or snout, and a wild hog's muzzle is too tough for a snake's fangs to penetrate. Property rights for the Island were apparently not yet well established, and ultimately George Kee had to leave and lost possession of the land he had occupied.*

Harvell Kee, son of George Ray Kee, was the bridge tender at the canal drawbridge for twenty years dating from the time when the drawbridge was hand-cranked using concrete counterbalances and progressing through the years when a Ford engine connected to belts up the bridge.

(Below image is Innerarity Island and Innerarity point)

At one time, two black commercial fishermen brothers, Monroe and Noland Hill, and the Wingate family were the only black families in the area. It was rumored that the Hill brothers had a moonshine still at Boat Bayou on Boat Island. Hogs and Goats were said to feed on the mash from their still. Like many commercial fishermen, the Hill brothers went barefoot most of the year. They were so well liked by people in the area that when they were walking, someone always stopped to pick them up. The Wingate family owned a beach on Big Lagoon, and are still one of the most prominent families in the community. They are still developing Condos, medium subdivisions, and residential developments.

Perdido Key and Ono Island are still a place of wonder. You MUST see it for yourself!

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