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The history of Pensacola, ... Mount Zion Baptist Church founded. [32] 1882 - Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad begins operating. 1888 - St. Michael's Catholic Church built.
Pensacola (/ ˌ p ɛ n s ə ˈ k oʊ l ə / PEN-sə-KOH-lə) is a city in the Florida Panhandle in the United States. It is the county seat and only city in Escambia County. The population was 54,312 at the 2020 census. [6] It is the principal city of the Pensacola metropolitan area, which had 509,905 residents in the 2020 census. Pensacola is ...
The Presidio Santa María de Galve, founded in 1698 by Spanish colonists, was the first European settlement of Pensacola, Florida after that of Tristan de Luna in 1559–1561. It was in the area of Fort Barrancas at modern-day Naval Air Station Pensacola, in northwestern Florida. The presidio included Fort San Carlos de Austria and an adjacent ...
In 1967, the Pensacola Historical Preservation and Restoration Commission was founded to preserve the history of Pensacola, including its historic monuments and buildings, to educate the public. In 2001, the organization was repealed by the Florida legislature and its collections and buildings were transferred to the University of West Florida ...
Richard Mount and Thomas Page's 1700 map of the Gulf of Mexico, A Chart of the Bay of Mexico Graph showing the overall water temperature of the Gulf between Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Although Katrina cooled waters in its path by up to 4 °C (7.2 °F), they had rebounded by the time of Rita's appearance.
Escambia County is the westernmost and oldest county in the U.S. state of Florida.As of the 2020 census, the population was 321,905. [1] The county seat and largest city is Pensacola. [2]
Bonifay was founded in 1882 [1] when the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad was built across the Florida Panhandle, and was named by P&A executive W. D. Chipley [7] [failed verification] for Frank Bonifay, member of a prominent family who had a brickmaking factory in Pensacola, where the P&A was headquartered.
Hernando de Soto landed in Florida in 1539 and began a multi-year trek through what is now the southeastern United States in which he found no gold and lost his life. In 1559 Tristán de Luna y Arellano established the first settlement in Pensacola but, after a violent hurricane destroyed the area, it was abandoned in 1561. [25]