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Seagrove Beach was platted long before the master-planned towns arrived beside it: J.R. Moody laid out the Seagrove 1st Addition in an unrecorded plat dated October 1, 1922, revised it, and recorded that revision on July 19, 1939. A second instrument follows it in the same year, and it is the one that carries the book and page a title search will want: the county's adopted plan identifies the Old Seagrove beach in the recorded plat of October 16, 1939 at Plat Book 2, Page 29, instrument number 101082. Cube McGee Sr. bought the remaining lots plus 160 surrounding acres in 1949, and permanent public beach easements were recorded in 1953 as an incentive for lot purchases. The original layout is a classic grid with streets named for trees: Grove, Forest, Cypress, Dogwood, Pine, Hickory and Live Oak. Water sets the platted core's northern edge: the county defines the Old Seagrove plan area as bounded west by Seaside, east by County Road 395 and its beach access, south by the Gulf, and north by a Western Lake tributary. Those dune lakes are a landform Walton County says is found in just four other places on earth: Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand and Oregon. The housing splits along the plan line. Inside the overlay the county permits only single-family residential use, bars commercial, multi-family and non-residential uses on every lot except the existing businesses at the northeast corner of 30A and County Road 395, and caps building height at 40 feet with front, side and rear setbacks of 20, 7.5 and 15 feet. The condominium stock that trades under the Seagrove name sits outside those boundaries, which is why two homes a few streets apart can answer to different rules. County Road 395 meets 30A in Seagrove and runs north to Point Washington, following the line of the old sandy road that once led down from the Point Washington ferry landing to the Seagrove Hotel. Eden Gardens State Park preserves 163 acres of the historic Wesley homestead at that end of the road. The Timpoochee Trail parallels the entire length of Scenic Highway 30A from Dune Allen to Inlet Beach and so runs the community's whole frontage, and five recorded pedestrian beach accesses cross the platted core to the sand, four of them granted to the public in Deed Book 122, Page 531 and named for the streets they follow.

• 1939 grid of tree-named cottage streets
• Five recorded pedestrian beach accesses
• Timpoochee Trail frontage
• County Road 395 to Point Washington