GULF BREEZE

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Gulf Breeze is a city on the Fairpoint Peninsula in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States and is an affluent suburb of Pensacola which lies to the north, across Pensacola Bay.

In 1828 the U.S. Government purchased the land encompassing the Naval Live Oaks Reservation for experimenting with acorns for the cultivation of live oaks to produce wooden ships. Before the Civil War, Live Oak wood was the primary material of choice for shipbuilders, thus the protection and cultivation of the trees for the US Navy was considered vital for defense in those turbulent times.



Currently, the land comprises over 1300 acres in Gulf Islands National Seashore and is supervised by the National Park Service. To the south of Highway 98 is a visitor's center for the Gulf Islands National Seashore and several public beach areas. Source From Wikipedia