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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E5X_first-public-school-building_Pensacola-FL.html
First Public School Building. . This was the site of Public School No. 1, the first building erected for a public school in 1875, occupied until Jan. 1887 when a new No. 1 at Palafox & Jackson Sts. opened. W.E. Anderson was School Board President.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E5W_first-telephone-exchange_Pensacola-FL.html
First Telephone Exchange. . On September 1, 1880, Southern Bell Telephone Company established a telephone exchange on this site serving 31 telephones. This was the first exchange in Florida to have exclusive operating rights within a Florida munic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E4P_captain-richard-g-bradford_Pensacola-Beach-FL.html
Captain Richard G. Bradford. . In this vicinity Captain Richard G. Bradford of Madison was killed on October 9, 1861, during the Battle of Santa Rosa Island. The battle was fought in an attempt to capture Fort Pickens which protected Pensacola Har…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29NW_alger-sullivan-lumber-company-residential-historic-district_Century-FL.html
In 1901, one of the largest and most advanced southern pine sawmills east of the Mississippi River was built here. In the tradition of the era, the Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company built its own town to house and supply the families of mill workers. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23CC_william-bartram-trail_Pensacola-FL.html
Bartram wrote of the security and extent of intracoastal water ways from Virginia's Chesapeake Bay to the Mississippi, in 1774.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23C5_pensacola-lunch-counter-sit-ins_Pensacola-FL.html
This building, once occupied by a Woolworth's five and dime store, played a role in the struggle for civil rights in Florida. In the 1950s and 1960s, African Americans in segregated communities began sit-ins to protest against "whites only&qu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23BD_brownsville-community_Pensacola-FL.html
In 1908, shortly after the extension of the trolley line west from Pensacola, Lucius Screven Brown (1874-1963) developed housing on seven blocks bounded by what is now Pace Boulevard, Strong Street, "W" Street and Gadsden Street. Brown's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23BC_morrison-family-homestead_Pensacola-FL.html
Constructed in 1906 by Mabel Lewis, this frame vernacular structure was the home of generations of the Morrison family, including the parents of James Douglas (Jim) Morrison, the lead singer for The Doors. Before Robert Bruce (R.B.) and Frances Mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23BB_uscgc-sebago-wpg-whec-42_Pensacola-FL.html
Side 1: This berth was once the home of the 255 foot Owasco class patrol gunboat, Sebago (WPG 42), which was commissioned in September 1945 as the United States' most heavily armed war vessel per foot. The ship carried an initial complement of 2…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23BA_church-of-the-sacred-heart_Pensacola-FL.html
The Church of the Sacred Heart was constructed in 1905. The Right Reverend Edward Allen, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mobile, which at the time encompassed Pensacola, appointed the pastor of Pensacola's St. Michael's Church, Father Robe…
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