1969 – The Niceville campus of the Okaloosa-Walton Junior College was dedicated on this date. The college began holding classes temporarily in Valparaiso on April 3, 1964 before moving to its permanent location in Niceville in late 1968. The school voted to change its name to Okaloosa-Walton Community College in 1988, and in 2008 the college started offering four-year degrees, changing the name again to the Northwest Florida State College. Currently the college serves almost 15,000 undergraduates at seven campuses including the original campus in Niceville.