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Milton/Bagdad

Milton and Bagdad have their roots planted in the forests of longleaf pines that once blanketed Northwest Florida. In 1830, Joseph Forsyth and the Simpson brothers constructed Arcadia Mill near present-day Milton, a nickname for Mill Town. Bagdad traces its ...

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John C Pace, Jr. Hall, Bldg. 93

Pace Hall is a 200-bed traditional residence hall reserved for members of the UWF Honors Program. Each room is double-occupancy with private bathrooms. The hall is named for the late UWF benefactor, Dr. John C. Pace, Jr.

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Harold Bryan Crosby Hall, Bldg. 10

Crosby Hall is home to President Judith A. Bense and her cabinet. Named after UWF's first president, Harold Bryan Crosby, the building reflects early gulf coast architecture, with verandas, wide overhangs, and a raised main floor. Classrooms located on the ...

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Lear-Rocheblave House

Lear-Rocheblave House

Located at 214 East Zaragoza Street, in Historic Pensacola Village, the Lear-Rocheblave House is a two-story Folk Victorian structure with wood-frame clapboard siding and ornamental Queen Anne design elements.

The house is named for John and Kate Lear, ...

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Barkley House

Located at the corner of Zaragoza and Florida Blanca streets, the Barkley House is on the National Register of Historic Places. The only original example of a masonry high house remaining in Pensacola, it is built on brick pillars nearly ...

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Manuel Barrios Cottage

Originally located at 524 East Zaragossa Street, this Gulf Coast style cottage is named after one of its earliest residents, Manuel Barrios. Of Creole, or mixed-race ancestry, Barrio was a barber in town who resided in the house with Elizabeth ...

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Kirtland Air Force Base

Located just outside Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kirtland Air Force Base boasts a long history of nuclear weapons development that played a key role for the United States during the Cold War arms race.

The U.S. Army built the base in ...

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New Braunfels, Texas

During the mid-nineteenth century, Germany joined several other European powers in staking a claim to land in Texas in an effort to curtail America's westward expansion. Sponsored by The Society of Noblemen, thousands of German immigrants left the social unrest ...

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Bradford House

This is the home of Albert Sumner Bradford, built in 1902 on his Tesoro Rancho. Bradford founded the town of Placentia, helped to bring the railroad, and was president of the Chamber of Commerce from its beginning to his death ...

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La Habra's Birthplace

The first post office, officially naming this settlement "La Habra," was granted in 1896 and was established in a corner of Coys Store, located on this site. El Camino Viejo, the old road between the missions, passed this corner, which ...

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