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"Other interests of Mr. Plew included the founding of the Shalimar Winery, which was established to use the surplus grape crop of the county. He also founded the Valparaiso Novelty Company, helped to establish a knitting mill in the community and was interested in a number of other enterprises to which he made investments to help their development."<ref>''Okaloosa News-Journal'', Crestview, Florida, "Jas. Plew, Business Man, Dies", Friday, April 22, 1938, Volume 24, Number 17, page 1.</ref>
"...[T]hrough the continued development of that particular area by both Mr. and Mrs. Plew, the whole area boomed into a vacating spot for many Northerners, mostly from Chicago, lured to [[Okaloosa County, Florida|Okaloosa county]] [sic] by the Plews."<ref>Fort Walton, Florida, "Mrs. Nettie Plew, 86, Widow of Valparaiso Founder, Is Dead", ''Playground News'', Thursday 1 March 1951, Volume 6, Number 5, page 1.</ref>
The headline in the [[Northwest Florida Daily News|''Playground News'']] announcing Nettie Plew's death in 1951, described her as the "Widow of [the] Valparaiso Founder."<ref>Fort Walton, Florida, "Mrs. Nettie Plew, 86, Widow of Valparaiso Founder, Is Dead", ''Playground News'', Thursday 1 March 1951, Volume 6, Number 5, page 1.</ref>
==Military development==
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"Funeral services were held for Mrs. Plew Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Valparaiso Community church [sic] with the Rev. Collie Seymour and the Rev. Ernest Partridge officiating. Fisher-Pou Funeral home of [[Pensacola, Florida|Pensacola]] was in charge of the arrangements. Pallbearers were Philip Early, P. E. Mitchell, H. A. Burk, Louis Harding, George Armstrong and Clarence Lear.
"The body was sent to [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]] Monday night where it was cremated. Yesterday [February 28] the ashes of Mrs. Plew were scattered from a plane, piloted by her only grandson, Walter Ruckel, Jr., over Choctawhatchee bay [sic]. In the plane with the grandson was C. W. Ruckel, son-in-law of Mrs. Plew."<ref>Fort
==Commemoration==
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