PERDIDO KEY, Florida -- It wasn't the $414 million jackpot, but one lucky shopper at the Publix in Perdido Key came away with a $1 million winning lottery ticket this week.

Florida Lottery officials announced Wednesday that a $1 million winning ticket from Tuesday night's drawing was purchased from the Publix grocery store at 13390 Perdido Key Drive, about seven miles from the Alabama state line and Orange Beach.

According to a news release there was another $1 million winning ticket purchased in Vero Beach, Fla. and a jackpot winning ticket was purchased in Merritt Island on Florida's east coast. The jackpot winner would split the $414 million prize with the purchaser of another winning ticket in Maryland.

"We are thrilled to have our first Mega Millions jackpot winner within the first year of Florida joining the game," Florida Lottery Secretary Cynthia O'Connell said in the release. "Beyond the excitement of meeting the winner to award this prize, we are very proud that Florida ticket sales from this jackpot generated $16.9 million in revenue for education programs in the state."

Though some

to benefit education, Alabama remains one of six U.S. states without a lottery or approved plans to implement one (Wyoming's lottery sales are

). Alabamians voted against a lottery in 1999, but many Alabama residents near Florida, Georgia, or Tennessee cross the borders to purchase lottery tickets in other states.