The Okaloosa County courthouse in March 2008. Okaloosa County is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, extending from the Gulf of Mexico to the Alabama state line. As of the 2010 census, the population was 180,822. Its county seat is Crestview.
Actress Charlotte Rae is best known for her role as Mrs. Garrett on the TV series Diff&rsquo;rent Strokes and The Facts of Life.
Most well known today for her short story The Yellow Wallpaper, which is compulsory reading in most high schools, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was also a well-known early animal rights activist and feminist author of utopian science fiction. Born in 1860, she published Moving the Mountain in 1911 and Herland in 1915.