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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/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/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
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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/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…