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16 unusual facts about Pensacola


10th Mississippi Infantry

The troops assembled in Mobile, Alabama, and were transported to Pensacola, Florida, for garrison duty there to help man the coastal defenses.

Bethune Blackwater Schooner

While the identity of the schooner is uncertain, based on the use of schooners along the Gulf Coast in the mid-nineteenth century, it is probable that this schooner was used to transport lumber to New Orleans and Mobile and materials such as coal to Pensacola.

Clark G. Reynolds

Reynolds received the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature from the Naval Order of the United States, and the Admiral Arthur W. Radford Award for Excellence in Naval Aviation History and Literature from the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation in Pensacola, Florida.

Francisco de Eliza

He was sent to America in 1780 and later took part in the siege of Pensacola, Florida, during the American Revolution.

J. J. Jeffrey

After a stint in Pensacola, Florida, he returned to Boston in March 1967 as the afternoon-drive personality for WRKO, which — as NOW Radio and, later, The Big 68 — dominated New England's teen market in the late 1960s.

James R. Tryon

After serving briefly at the United States Naval Hospital in New York City, Tryon spent the last two years of the Civil War at Pensacola, Florida, caring for sick and wounded officers and men of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron.

Mercury 13

Instead, once Cobb had passed the Phase III tests (advanced aeromedical examinations using military equipment and jet aircraft), the group prepared to gather in Pensacola, Florida at the Naval School of Aviation Medicine to follow suit.

Merle Lawrence

He contributed to assignments at the School of Aviation Medicine in Pensacola, Florida and at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Washington, D.C. He held a brief position as a trainer of helicopter piloting during the Korean War.

Mod Mobilian

In 2012, it was the official interview crew for Deluna Fest in Pensacola, Florida.

Pensacola, Oklahoma

The Union Army commandeered Pensacola as a supply station between Fort Scott, Kansas and Fort Gibson, I. T. during the Civil War.

Moreover, until the Pensacola Dam and good roads were completed in 1943, commerce was limited.

Reuben Kemper

In 1810, during the rebellion against Spanish rule by the British and American settlers (who made up the majority of inhabitants), Reuben Kemper and Joseph White were authorized to invite the inhabitants of Mobile and Pensacola to join in the revolt.

Sandy Bentley

In 2003, Yagalla pleaded guilty to securities fraud, and was sentenced to five years and five months at Pensacola Federal Prison.

Scouting in Alabama

Gulf Coast Council serves Scouts in Florida and Alabama, with the council office located in Pensacola, Florida.

Thomas E. Atkinson

He was present at the Battle of the Head of Passes of the Mississippi River on October 12, 1861, and at an engagement against Fort McRee near Pensacola, Florida, in November 1861.

William Lundy

Source: Florida Pension Records On January 18, 1955, the Boston Traveler published an article, "Reb on T.V.", of which William Allen Lundy was the subject; making mention of the 107 year old Confederate veteran being on television in Pensacola.


1906 Florida hurricane

The 1906 Mississippi hurricane, a Category 3 hurricane which caused catastrophic impacts in Pensacola and Mobile, Alabama

Andrew B. Moore

He ordered the state militia to seize the arsenal at Mt. Vernon and Forts Morgan and Gaines on Mobile Bay, and he contributed more than five hundred troops to assist Florida Governor Madison S. Perry in capturing the Federal forts at Pensacola.

Apalachicola Regional Airport

He was survived by his wife Donna, of Pensacola, Florida, and his mother, Mrs. Katherine Neale, of Avalon, Pennsylvania.

B-class blimp

The Navy set up airship stations along the East Coast, at Chatham, Massachusetts, Montauk, Long Island, Rockaway Beach in NY City, Cape May, New Jersey, Norfolk, Virginia, and Key West and Pensacola, Florida.

Battle of Fort Charlotte

He learned in April that additional reinforcements, including British Royal Navy vessels, had arrived at Pensacola.

Body Head Bangerz

Body Head Bangerz are a Pensacola, Florida based hip hop group formed by former Heavyweight boxing champion Roy Jones, Jr. The group consists of Jones, Jr. and rappers Magic and Choppa.

Brixton Karnes

While having been in some notable films such as Tank Girl (1995), he has primarily had recurring character or one-time appearances on American TV shows like Without a Trace, JAG, Silk Stalkings, Pensacola: Wings of Gold, and Father Dowling Mysteries.

Charles Edward Emery

In July, 1861, he entered the United States Navy as third assistant engineer, and served on the “Richmond” during engagements at Pensacola, Florida, the Mississippi river passes, and finally under David Farragut.

Charles G. Palmer-Buckle

In 2002 he apologized on behalf of Africans for the part Africans played in the slave trade, and the apology was accepted by bishop John Ricard of Pensacola-Tallahassee.

Clifford Chester Sims

Clifford Sims, aged 25 at his death, was buried in Barrancas National Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida.

David Eagles

He spent fifteen months learning to fly with the United States Navy, where he flew the Harvard (US Navy SNJ), the Grumman F9F Panther and the North American T-28 Trojan at Naval Air Stations Pensacola FLA and Kingsville TEXAS.

Department of Florida

Following the secession of Florida in January 1861, Florida troops seized most Federal property in the state with the exceptions of Fort Zachary Taylor at Key West and Fort Pickens at Pensacola.

Econfina Creek

One of the earliest settlers was William Gainer, who was with Andrew Jackson's forces when they passed through the area on their way to Pensacola in 1818 (during the First Seminole War).

Edward D. Robie

Later duties included special inspection duty at Pitsburg, Ohio and the Cold Spring Foundry in New York, Fleet Engineer in the Pacific on the flagship USS Pensacola, Chief Engineer at Boston, then New York and finally Norfolk Navy yards.

Elias Durnford

Elias Durnford (13 June 1739 – 21 June 1794) was a British army officer and civil engineer who is best known for surveying the town of Pensacola and laying out a city plan based on two public places (now the Plaza Ferdinand VII and the Seville Square).

History of Pensacola, Florida

In the late 17th century the Spanish returned to the area to found the modern Pensacola as an outpost from which to defend their claims to Spanish Florida.

One of the first European settlements in what is now the continental United States was established at the modern site of Pensacola by conquistador Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano in 1559.

I100

WCOA-FM (formerly branded as "i100"), a radio station serving Pensacola, Florida and Mobile, Alabama, United States

JJ McKay

McKay was on the organizing committee for the original traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall and chaired the Pensacola/Escambia Memorial Day committee, a major event in Pensacola, the home of Naval Aviation.

Keith Savage

Savage attended Gulf Breeze High School in Gulf Breeze, Florida, played club soccer for Pensacola Revolution, and played college soccer at the University of West Florida, where he was GSC Freshman of the Year in 2003.

KOAT-TV

KOAT is also one of six ABC affiliates and one of three Hearst-owned ABC stations to have an hour-long 10 p.m. newscast, along with KITV in Honolulu and WISN in Milwaukee; as well as KRGV in Weslaco, Texas, KSTP in Saint Paul, Minnesota, KIFI in Idaho Falls, Idaho and WEAR in Pensacola, Florida.

Lower Seaboard Theater of the American Civil War

Following the secession of Florida in January 1861, Florida troops seized most Federal property in the state with the exceptions of Fort Zachary Taylor at Key West and Fort Pickens at Pensacola.

Loxley, Alabama

Loxley is becoming a popular location for the expansion of the suburbs from Daphne and Spanish Fort, Alabama, because it is served by an Interstate 10 exit and is almost directly in between the large cities of Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida.

North Hill

North Hill Preservation District, an historic district of Pensacola, Florida, United States

Pensacola and Fort Barrancas Railroad

The trestle across Bayou Grande, immediately north of Chevalier Field on NAS Pensacola, was featured in the 1957 MGM film "Wings of Eagles" starring John Wayne, with a steam-powered freight train crossing the span during a floatplane buzz job.

Pensacola Christian College

That school, Pensacola Christian Grade School, opened in 1954 and was later renamed Pensacola Christian Academy.

Pensacola Ice Flyers

The "Ice Flyers" name has a double meaning – it is both a tribute to Pensacola's heritage in Naval aviation (Naval Air Station Pensacola is home to the legendary Blue Angels and the National Museum of Naval Aviation) and an homage to original owner Tim Kerr, who previously played eleven seasons with the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers.

Roy Halliday

His air training took place in the United States (still formally neutral at that time) at the naval air station at Grosse Ile, near Detroit and at Pensacola, Florida.

Scott Loftin

Born in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama; moved to Pensacola, Florida, with his parents in 1887; attended the public schools and Washington and Lee University School of Law at Lexington, Virginia; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in Pensacola, Fla.

Vince Whibbs

KSG (February 8, 1920 – May 30, 2006) was a popular politician and business leader in Pensacola, Florida.

WCOA

WCOA-FM, a radio station (100.7 FM) licensed to serve Pensacola, Florida, United States

WFGX

The station signed on the air on April 7, 1987 as an independent station; it was the second independent station on the Florida side of the market, after Pensacola-based WJTC.

William Clancey

During this intergovernmental personnel assignment as a civil servant, he was also employed at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, where he holds the title of Senior Research Scientist.

Witkin

Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz, PLLC, a national plaintiffs' personal injury law firm based in Pensacola, Florida, United States

WLOB

In the 1960s McGavern/Guild Media NYC owned WLOB AM 1310/FM 98 as Atlantic States Industries, who also owned WTSA (Brattleboro, Vermont), WNVY (Pensacola, Florida) and WRYT (Boston, Massachusetts).

WTKX

WDWR, a radio station (1230 AM) licensed to Pensacola, Florida, United States, which used the call sign WTKX from 1989 until 1995

WTKX-FM, a radio station (101.5 FM) licensed to Pensacola, Florida, United States