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Escambia General Hospital

Killam was rushed to the Escambia General Hospital, which later became the University Hospital, after the incident, but was pronounced Dead-on-Arrival. it is the same hospital in which he was scheduled to be Baker Acted for his excessive drug use ...

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The Linen Department Store

The Linen Department Store was the location where Hank Killam had an "encounter" with a plate-glass window. Hank died of a severe neck laceration on March 17, 1964 in front of the store. The "accident" was ruled a suicide, but ...

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Mary Killam's Boarding House

Mary Killam's boarding house was where Hank Killam stayed after his return from Dallas in 1963. This house was the last known locationthat Hank was verifiably seen alive. Mary Killam, in 1966, "remembered" that an unknown car was parked outside ...

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Pensacola Hospital (tour stop 8)

8. Pensacola Hospital (aka Old Sacred Heart Hospital) was a state-of-the-art facility when it opened in 1915. On the night of January 30, 1931, 19 year-old Gretchen Gregory coasted Henry Moore's roadster coupe up to the hospital’s front entrance. ...

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Windham's Pharmacy (tour stop 7)

Late in the evening of Friday, January 30, 1931, Windham's Pharmacy was the first place that Gretchen Gregory stopped with gunshot victim Henry Moore. You might be thinking, “if I’m transporting a gunshot victim, I’m not stopping at a Minute ...

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Osmond's Sandwich Shop (tour stop 5)

After the movie let out downtown at 9:30, Henry Moore drove his date Gretchen Gregory west to get a late-night snack of coffee and sandwiches at Osmond’s. The sandwich shop was located in a gas fillin’ station near Barrancas Avenue ...

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Magnolia Bluff- Lover's Lane (tour stop 6)

6. Around 10 pm on Friday, January 30, 1931, Henry Moore and his date Gretchen Gregory arrived on Magnolia Bluff, a popular Pensacola lover’s lane. Down the old clay road that branched off the new Scenic Highway, Magnolia Bluff ...

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The Moore Home- 503 East Jackson (tour stop 1)

1. So the Turner-Moore home located at 503 East Jackson Street in Pensacola, Florida is where the whole sordid night began. That night—the night of Friday, January 30, 1931—ended the life of a 23-year-old scion of a prominent Jackson, Mississippi ...

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The Painted Desert (tour stop 4)

4. As Henry Moore said to Gretchen Gregory drove past the Osceola Country Club, Henry turned to his date and said, “Gretchen there is a good picture on the show tonight. Would you like to go?"

To which she replied, ...

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The Osceola Country Club (tour stop 3)

3. Henry Moore and Gretchen Gregory left the Gregory home on the evening of Friday January 30, 1931 in the roadster coupe, headed for this location, the Osceola Municipal Golf Course. Founded in 1926 as a country club, the course ...

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