Navarre & Navarre Beach Area Info

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   Navarre is an unincorporated community in Santa Rosa County in the Northwest Florida Panhandle. Navarre is about 25 miles east of Pensacola and about 15 miles west of Fort Walton Beach. The community is roughly centered on the junction of U.S. Highway 98 and State Road 87.
  The founder of Navarre was Colonel Guy Wyman, colonel in the United States Army. He initially platted the town in 1925.  His family used to visit the area, and they had purchased a lot of property. Wyman was in World War I where he met a French nurse named Noel. He wanted to bring her back with him to the United States to marry her, and the only way he could bring her back was to adopt her. So, he did. Noel had actually named Navarre after a province in Spain near France. During the Great Depression, they couldn’t pay the taxes on it. So they had to start selling it off. Part of that property is where the Navarre Park is today. Noel traveled to New York to teach French to earn money to pay the taxes. When she came back, Colonel Wyman had taken a shining to another young lady. When their divorce was final, he told Noel not to set foot on his property. She came on his property allegedly to tend to a pet cemetery that she had, and Colonel Wyman shot her. He didn’t get in trouble because of the warning he had given her. Colonel Wyman’s parents were murdered in Navarre by the Roberts brothers. Apparently, the Roberts brothers thought the Wymans had a lot of money, tried to rob them and ended up murdering them. The Roberts brothers were nabbed and then hanged in Crestview.

Navarre Beach, is also an unincorporated community in Santa Rosa County. It is on Santa Rosa Island, a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico. Immediately to its east is Navarre Beach State Park, one of Florida’s state parks. Immediately to its west is a portion of the Gulf Islands National Seashore, and further west is the city of Pensacola Beach. To the north, across Santa Rosa Sound and on the mainland, is the community of Navarre.
Much of the 1978 film Jaws 2 was filmed at Navarre Beach. Hotel scenes in the movie were filmed at the Navarre Beach Holiday Inn, a complex subsequently destroyed by Hurricane Ivan.
If you are new to the Navarre & Navarre Beach area or if you are interested in buying Real Estate in Navarre or Navarre Beach Real Estate some important numbers that you may need are:

Gulf Power (Electricity) 800-225-5797
Okaloosa Gas District (Natural Gas) 850-244-5197
Gulf Breeze Natural Gas (Natural Gas) 850-934-5108
AT&T (Phone) 888-757-6500
Holley/Navarre Water System (Water/Sewage Service) 850-939-2427
Midway Water System (Water/Sewage Service) 850-932-5188
Navarre Beach Water & Sewer (Water & Sewage Service) 850-936-6110
BFI – Emerald Coast (Garbage) 850-433-7425
Waste Management (Garbage) 850-932-7571
Sutton Environmental (Garbage) 850-469-9500
Recycling 850-981-7135
Driver License Office 850-934-5181/850-983-5320