Gulf Islands National Seashore-Naval Live Oaks Area, Gulf Breeze, Florida. County/parish: Santa Rosa.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 28, 1998. NRIS 98001169.
Part of Archeological Properties of the Naval Live Oaks Reservation MPS (NRIS 64500092).
1 contributing site.Also known as:
The Naval Live Oaks Reservation (also known as Deer Point Live Oaks Reservation or Deer Point Plantation) is part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore and is near Gulf Breeze, Florida. It was purchased by the U.S. government in 1828 as the first federal tree farm and began operations on January 18, 1829. It serves today as part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore forest community preserved by the National Park Service on January 8, 1971, and added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on September 28, 1998.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77841654