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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IN2_battery-van-swearingen_Pensacola-Beach-FL.html
All alone in the glaring sun...scanning the horizon...looking for but hoping not to see an enemy ship or plane—guard duty was no picnic for the Coast Artillery during World War II. Soldiers stood guard around the clock in three- or four-hour…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IMU_first-religious-service-in-pensacola_Pensacola-Beach-FL.html
This marker commemorates the first religious service in the Pensacola area, a mass celebrated on August 15, 1559, The Feast of the Assumption, by the Dominican Friar who accompanied Tristan de Luna.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IMQ_daniel-sullivan_Pensacola-FL.html
Daniel F. Sullivan and his brother Martin, born in Ireland, arrived in Pensacola after the Civil War. Possessing a remarkable talent for business, the brothers purchased lumber mills and wharfs on Pensacola Bay and vast areas of timberland in Esca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IMP_p-k-yonge_Pensacola-FL.html
At age nine, in 1859, Philip Keys Yonge moved to Pensacola with his family from Marianna, Florida. The Yonge family came to Florida from England during the British Colonial Period. He began a career in the lumber business in 1876 at the Muscogee M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IMO_stephen-r-mallory_Pensacola-FL.html
Born on the island of Trinidad in 1812, Stephen Mallory's family eventually made Key West their home. Mallory studied law, volunteered in the Florida militia during the second Seminole War, and became Inspector of Customs at Key West. In 1830 he m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IMN_dorothy-walton_Pensacola-FL.html
Born Dorothy Camber, to a British plantation owner at South Carolina, Dorothy married lawyer George Walton at Savannah shortly before the beginning of the American Revolution. George Walton attended the Continental Congress in Philadelphia signing…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IMM_desiderio-quina_Pensacola-FL.html
Born in Italy in 1777, Desiderio Quina served the Spanish army in the Louisiana Infantry Regiment. He was later employed in Pensacola as an apothecary for the John Forbes Company where he married Margarita Bobe. His son Desiderio was born in 1817 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IML_jose-noriega_Pensacola-FL.html
Born a nobleman in Spain about 1757, Noriega served his country with distinction in the Louisiana Infantry Regiment against the British at Baton Rouge, Mobile, and Pensacola between 1779 and 1781. His son Jose Noriega, born at Pensacola in 1788, a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IMK_salvador-t-pons_Pensacola-FL.html
Salvador Pons was the second son of John Pons, a seaman from Maryland, and Maria Rosario, a free woman of color. As a property owner who could read and write, Salvador was able to serve the Pensacola community as City Alderman beginning in 1869 an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IMJ_eugenio-antonio-sierra_Pensacola-FL.html
A native of Spain, Eugenio Antonio Sierra arrived in Pensacola in the employ of the Spanish royal hospitals in 1785. He was appointed to the post of head practitioner at the Pensacola hospital between 1794 and 1799. In 1811, Dr. Sierra, professor …
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