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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XT2_uss-antietam-cv-36-anchor-historical_Pensacola-FL.html
Weighing 30,057 lb. with an overall height of 15 feet, this anchor was aboard the aircraft carrier Antietam (CV-36) from her commissioning in 1945 before she was sold for scrap in 1973. During a single combat deployment in Korea from November 1951…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XT1_the-cradle-of-naval-aviation-historical_Pensacola-FL.html
The Cradle of Naval Aviation
Over the course of 100 years, NAS Pensacola has played a part in the training of thousands of personnel, regardless of rank or aviation community, to pursue careers in Naval Aviation and earn coveted "Navy Wings.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XN1_penscolas-first-lighthouse-historical_Pensacola-FL.html
Site of
Penscola's First Lighthouse
and
First on Florida's Gulf Coast
Lighted: December 20, 1824-December 31, 1858
Architect: Winslow Lewis
Tower: Conical 30-foot Brick
Light: 10 Whale Oil Lamps in 7-foot Lantern
Keepers: Jeremiah Ingraham…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XN0_pelicans-in-paradise-historical_Pensacola-FL.html
Germalican
Designer 2nd German Air Force Training Squadron USA
Artist Mrs. Lydia Davis
Sponsor 2nd German Air Force Training Squadron USA
"The Staff Crew of 2010"
LtCol Frank Orkisz · Major Oliver Ruhe · C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XAW_emanuel-point-shipwrecks-historical_Pensacola-FL.html
In August 1559, eleven ships under command of Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano sailed into Pensacola Bay, then called Ochuse, to establish a new colony for Spain. Intended to stake a claim on the northern Gulf coast, the settlement was planned to be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RAS_gen-andrew-jackson-residence_Pensacola-FL.html
Site of residence of
Gen. Andrew Jackson
while governor of Florida
1821
Destroyed by fire 1839
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PPM_the-life-and-legacy-of-t-t-wentworth-jr_Pensacola-FL.html
The Early Life of T. T. Wentworth, Jr.
Theodore Thomas Wentworth Jr. was born July 26, 1898, in Mobile, Alabama, to Elizabeth Goodloe and T. T. Wentworth, Sr. In 1900, the Wentworth family moved to Pensacola.
Young Tom helped supplement the fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PPK_gateway-to-floridas-history_Pensacola-FL.html
T.T. Wentworth, Jr. Florida State Museum
Built in 1907 during a downtown building boom, this building was originally City Hall. It is the earliest example of Mediterranean Revival architecture in Pensacola. In 1985, a new City Hall built on Main …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PPE_piers-ports-and-wharves-a-look-at-pensacolas-waterfront_Pensacola-FL.html
During the mid-1800s, 16 wharves reached into Pensacola Bay, along a three-mile stretch of waterfront from Bayou Texas to Bayou Chico. A few years later, around 1900, railroad companies invested in Pensacola's port facilities, improving wharves an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PPD_mooring-anchor_Pensacola-FL.html
Mooring anchors like this one were lowered into Pensacola Bay during the 1800s. A pair of buoyed mooring anchors connected by a long, heavy chain gave sailing ships a place to moor (tie up) while waiting to enter Pensacola's harbor to load or unlo…