Destin, FL
City Population 2003: 11,319
Discovering Destin dates back to the seventh century A.D. With records showing American Indians lived here, surviving off the major staple fish! Spanish explorers visited some 900 years later, and divers are still finding wreckage of old ships in area waters. Destin traces its immediate history to a fisherman, Leonard Destin, who moved here from New London, Connecticut and settled in Northwest Florida about 1845. For decades he and his descendents fished and navigated the only channel passage to the Gulf of Mexico between Panama City and Pensacola, known as Destin’s East Pass.
Destin officially incorporated as a municipality in November 1984, and now has a fully functioning city council and government. No longer a small fishing village, visitors are still discovering for the first time what is now a major tourist attraction Destin’s beautiful coast, friendly atmosphere, supreme dining and of course, fishing in the World’s Luckiest Fishing Village!
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