SANTA ROSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
MILTON, FL
The Santa Rosa Historical Society is a non-profit organization based in Milton, Florida. Founded in 1974, the society is dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of Santa Rosa County and the surrounding areas. The society's mission is to collect, preserve, and share the history of the region with the community and visitors.
The society operates a museum located in the historic Imogene Theatre building in downtown Milton. The museum showcases artifacts and exhibits that highlight the history of the area, including Native American artifacts, military memorabilia, and items from the agricultural and maritime industries. The museum also houses a research library and archives with a collection of photographs, documents, and other materials that provide insight into the region's past.
In addition to the museum, the society hosts events and educational programs throughout the year, including walking tours, lectures, and workshops. The society also works to promote local heritage tourism by providing information and resources to visitors interested in exploring the area's history.
The Santa Rosa Historical Society is run by a board of directors and relies on the support of volunteers and community members to carry out its mission. Membership in the society is open to anyone interested in preserving and promoting the history of Santa Rosa County.
SANTA ROSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY is a Historical Societies, Historic Preservation in MILTON FL. US MID #8401200413
The museum is classed as HSC (Historical Societies, Historic Preservation). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Southeastern (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia). Total revenue from most recent IRS 990 Form: $ -13,651 from tax period 201212 (YYYYMM).
![Louisiana Sunset Pensacola Florida inter-coastal sunset over the water. Since the coastline represented the national border, and commerce of the time was chiefly by water, the fledgling United States government established a degree of national control over it. Inland transportation to supply the coasting trade at the time was less known and virtually undeveloped, but when new lands and their favorable river systems were added with the Northwest Territory in 1787, the Northwest Ordinance established a radically new and free national policy for their development and transportation use.[1]
Over time, internal improvements of natural coastal and inland waterways would develop into the Great Loop, which allows for waterborne circumnavigation of the eastern continental United States, using minimal ocean travel, with the Intracoastal Waterway providing its eastern end. In 1808, the first federal government report on existing, possible, and likely avenues of transportation improvement was presented; it included much of the distance where the ICW now traverses the Atlantic coast. At the request of the Senate, Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin presented an overall plan for future transportation developments of national importance and scope.[2] Along with inland east–west improvements, Gallatin's north–south improvements included the following:[3]
The map of the United States will show that they possess a tide water inland navigation, secure from storms and enemies, and which, from Massachusetts to the southern extremity of Georgia, is principally, if not solely, interrupted by four necks of land. These are the Isthmus of Barnstable, that part of New Jersey which extends from the Raritan to the Delaware, the peninsula between the Delaware and the Chesapeake, and that low and marshy tract which divides the Chesapeake from Albemarle Sound. ... Should this great work, the expense of which, as will hereafter be shown, is estimated at about three millions of dollars, be accomplished, a sea vessel entering the first canal in the harbor of Boston would, through the bay of Rhode Island, Long Island Sound, and the harbor of New York, reach Brunswick on the Raritan; thence pass through the second canal to Trenton on the Delaware, down that river to Christiana or Newcastle, and through the third canal to Elk River and the Chesapeake, whence, sailing down that bay and up Elizabeth River, it would, through the fourth canal, enter the Albemarle Sound, and by Pamlico, Core, and Bogue sounds, reach Beaufort and Swansboro in North Carolina. From the last-mentioned place, the inland navigation, through Stumpy and Toomer's sounds, is continued until a diminished draught of water, and by cutting two low and narrow necks, not exceeding three miles together, to Cape Fear River, and thence by an open but short and direct run along the coast is reached that chain of islands between which and the main the inland navigation is continued, to St. Marys along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. It is unnecessary to add any comments on the utility of the work, in peace or war, for the transportation of merchandise or the conveyance of persons.
While Gallatin discussed the details of engineering, construction, and costs, including the national benefits to accrue from lowered transportation costs between domestic and international markets, his full $20 million, 10-year plan was never approved. That is not to say his plan was never implemented, however, for with experience in the War of 1812 shortly thereafter and the attendant British blockade, the continued need for such facility was soon highlighted. Since Gallatin had based his proposals on the known advantageous natural geographic features of the country, many of his proposals became the locations of navigation improvements that were surveyed, authorized, and constructed starting with the 1824 General Survey Act and the first of many pieces of rivers and harbors legislation,[4] as well by individual state-built improvements.
Since these 1824 acts, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has responsibility for navigation waterway improvements and maintenance. All four proposed sections of Gallatin's intracoastal plan were eventually built; the Delaware and Raritan Canal was later abandoned for a better alternative, but the Cape Cod Canal remains in operation, and the Delaware and the Dismal Swamp portions still form part of the larger present-day Intracoastal Waterway. Wikipedia](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53305702203_9923593813_b.jpg)
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SANTA ROSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
6866 CAROLINE ST
MILTON
FL
32570-2201
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SANTA ROSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Information
| MID # | 8401200413 |
| Name | SANTA ROSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC |
| Alternate Name | SANTA ROSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY |
| Classification | Historical Societies, Historic Preservation, , Southeastern |
| Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN) | 237450000 |
| NTEECC | A82 |
| Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM) | 201212 |
| INCOME | 45,800 |
| REVENUE | -13,651 |
| LAT/LONG | 30.622564, -87.037704 |
| CODES | FIPS State Code: 12 FIPS County Code: 113 US Census Tract: 010600 US Census Block: 5049 |