Pensacola Mardi Gras

Say Mardi Gras and most Americans immediately think of New Orleans.

Pensacola, however, is another gulf coast city with a thriving Mardi Gras tradition that is one of the oldest and largest celebrations in the country.

Although first organized in ...

Battery Pensacola

Positioned in the middle of Fort Pickens, Battery Pensacola represents the transition in coastal defenses from brick and mortar to more modern reinforced concrete.

Built in 1898, the emplacement featured two 12-inch disappearing guns, each capable of firing 1,070 pound ...

National Historic Landmark-Pensacola Naval Air Station

Established in January 1914, this was the United States' first permanent naval air station, first Navy pilot training center, and first U.S. naval installation to send pilots into combat.

Information provided by the National Register of Historic Places, a program of ...

Jacksonville, Pensacola & Mobile Railroad Company Freight Depot

Constructed in c.1858, a second story was added to the building by 1885. This depot was one of the stations on the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad and a center for trade and transportation in Leon County, including the transport of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pensacola Beach Cross

The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic Fraternal Organization of Men, sponsored the 10-foot, concrete cross which now stands on a dune of Pensacola Beach.

The cross commemorates the first Catholic Mass celebrated in the continental United States on August 15, ...

Pensacola Catholic High School

Pensacola Catholic High School, prior to 1958, was located on the corner of Garden and Baylen Streets.

In that year, the school moved to its current location on the corner of West Scott Street and W Street.

A decade later, Pensacola Catholic ...