Milton, Florida Milton, Florida Location in Santa Rosa County and the U.S.
County Santa Rosa Website City of Milton Milton is a town/city in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States. The town/city was incorporated in 1844 and is home to Naval Air Station Whiting Field.
Enumeration Bureau was 8,044. The populace estimate for 2013 was 9,323. It is the governmental center of county of Santa Rosa County.
Most notable were "Hell-Town" (muggy, inhospitable territory veiled with briars, mosquitoes, thorns, snakes) "Jernigan's Landing", "Scratch Ankle" (due to the briars that interval along the riverbank), "Hard Scrabble", and later Milton (possibly Homage to the Epic Poem novelist John Milton) and/or because of the small-town lumber foundry industry or Mill Town, which was shortened to Milton. Milton is part of the Pensacola Ferry Pass Brent Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.6 square miles (12 km2), of which 4.4 square miles (11 km2) is territory and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) (4.59%) is water.
Santa Rosa Medical Center (SRMC) is a 129-bed general hospital in Milton.
SRMC is the major provider of hospital-based healthcare services and emergency medicine in Santa Rosa County.
Milton is the home of the West Florida Railroad Museum and the historic Imogene Theatre owned and directed by the Santa Rosa Historical Society.
The settlement was originally known as "Scratch Ankle", because of the briars and bramble that interval in the area. Another name was "Jernigan's Landing", after Benjamin Jernigan (died April 1847), who assembled a water-powered saw foundry at what is now Locklin Lake between 1828 and 1830. Other names were "Lumberton", "Black Water" and "Hard Scrabble", but by 1839, it was being referred to as "Milltown". Milton was incorporated as a town/city in 1844, one year before the Territory of Florida joined the United States as the 27th state. He was born in Milton and graduated from Milton High in 1986.
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Annual Estimates of the Population for Incorporated Places in Florida, Listed Alphabetically: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2004 Santa Rosa Historical Society "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"American Community Survey results for Milton, FL 2007-2011".
"History of Milton, FL".
"Santa Rosa Press Gazette, February 15, 2008 - City of Milton ordered to stop damage to Jernigan Mill".
Green, Laurie (1998), Santa Rosa County, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 978-0752 - 408750 (p.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Milton, Florida.
Wikisource has the text of a 1905 New International Encyclopedia article about Milton, Florida.
City of Milton Santa Rosa Press Gazette journal that serves Milton, Florida available in full-text with images in Florida Digital Newspaper Library The Milton Chronicle provides analysis of issues relating to Milton, Florida.
Municipalities and communities of Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States
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County seats in Florida - Cities in Pensacola urbane region - Cities in Santa Rosa County, Florida - Cities in Florida - 1844 establishments in Florida Territory
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