Confederate Salt Kettle-Oaks by the Bay Park

A major contribution of Florida to the Confederate war effort was the production of salt. Salt was necessary for preserving meat and other perishable foods but could not be imported due to the Union blockade.

Produced by boiling sea water ...

Union Soldier Monument-Memorial Park

Articles in the Union veterans Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)newspaper, The National Tribune, generated interest in a chance to live in Florida in the community founded by New York developer W. H. Lynn and developed as a home for ...

Pensacola Navy Yard

Two Civil War era buildings from the Pensacola Navy Yard, a storehouse and the combination chapel/armory building, remain on what is now part of Pensacola Naval Air Station.

The Navy Yard's brick boundary wall, gatehouses, bulkhead, and wet basin from ...

Hyer-Knowles Planing Mill Chimney Park

Constructed around 1854 on land owned by lumber manufacturer and merchant Henry Hyer, the Hyer-Knowles Planing Mill was one of the many lumber mills built in the Pensacola area prior to the Civil War.

In addition to planed lumber, the mill ...

Pensacola Children's Museum (Arbona Building)

From 1885-1905, Eugene Arbona ran the Gulf Saloon and Restaurant from the newly constructed Arbona Building.  While the saloon remained downstairs, the Arbona family lived upstairs. Eugene Arbona deeded the building to his daughter, Fannie Arbona, who owned the building ...

Fort Pickens - Florida

Fort Pickens is one of a number of fortifications that protected naval facilities located inside Pensacola Bay. The name is in honor of Revolutionary War hero General Andrew Pickens of South Carolina.

The Pensacola Navy Yard was begun in 1825, ...

Pensacola's First Lighthouse

The light from the new tower was first exhibited on December 20, 1824 by bachelor Jeremiah Ingraham. To produce a flashing signature, two groups of five lamps were fastened to opposite ends of a framework, which was rotated by a ...

Pensacola's First Lighthouse

The light from the new tower was first exhibited on December 20, 1824 by bachelor Jeremiah Ingraham. To produce a flashing signature, two groups of five lamps were fastened to opposite ends of a framework, which was rotated by a ...

34 Frank Place

34 Frank Place was constructed in 1928 in one of the most popular architectural styles of the inter-war period, Tudor revival. This is an excellent example of the style, exhibiting a steeply pitched roof, brick construction with a stucco half-timbered ...

Academy Park

The impact of the Minden Male Academy

An often-confused fact in Minden history is the difference between the two major antebellum educational institutions in our town, the Minden Male Academy and the Minden Female College. Most of the attention locally has ...