- 1 July1978: Touch-tone dialing becomes available to Crestview Centel customers!
- 4th July 1964: Rhett Cadenhead hits the first ball on the new golf course at Crestview Country Club.
- 6 July 1976: Bob Sikes Library opens in Twin Hills Park in what is now the Crestview campus of Northwest Florida State College.
- 10 July 1996: North County swelters under 109 degree heat, the hottest temperature ever recorded in the area.
- 11 July 1978: Okaloosa County Board of Commissioners votes to sell the county hospital system to Hospital Corporation of America (HCA).
- 13 July 1885: Mt. Olive School, one of the first black schools in the north county, is organized in Crestview.
- 17 July 1980: Florida Highway Patrol opens Crestview headquarters in what is now a substation of the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office at U. Hwy 90 and S.R. 85.
- 18 July 1892: Post Office opens in Dorcas (closed July 15, 1918).
- 19 July 1855: Post office and stagecoach stop established in Austinville near present-day Milligan but on the east side of the Yellow River.
- 21 July 1937: The $25,000 Crestview Town Hall and Shirt Factory (aka the "Alatex Building") built by Purl G. Adams is accepted by the City.
- 23 July 1887: Yellow River Railroad incorporated.
- 23 July 1892: Post office opens in Campton (closed 1894; reopened 1905-1910).
- 24 July 1972: The Laurel Hill School which had replaced the school that burned down in 1931, burns down.
- 26 July 1883: Post Office opens in Holts (now spelled Holt).
Thanks to the Baker Block Museum & North Okaloosa Historical Association for creating and making available this 2017 Calendar.
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