Old Grayton Beach Hotel Info

[Freshwater Bay]

I know a lot of the research for the area came out of the defuniak library archives. This is where a lot of stories from the book "The way we where" a recollection of the south walton pioneers came from. You could talk to the butlers in Grayton. Grandpa had all the stories, but he is no longer. Hope the library helps. I understood they they sold rockers for $5.00 bucks a night because it was such a hopping place. There also use to be a hotel in front of the Seagrove Village Market on the corner I am told.

 

[ShallowsNole]

I just happened to thumb through my copy of "The Way We Were" last week...and it dawned on me that most of the folks interviewed for the book are gone now. It really doesn't seem that long since Coastal Heritage / CAA published that book, but I guess it's been fifteen years or so.

LMG has the best advice of all - talk to the Butlers, quick. Van Ness is a veritable wealth of knowledge (he and Albert are about the only ones I would call that, anymore) but he is not a spring chicken anymore.