Fort Barrancas

One of three forts designed to protect the United States Navy Yard, Fort Barrancas was completed in 1844 on a bluff overlooking Pensacola Bay. Defenses included two other major separate masonry fortifications.

To protect the fort from attack on the ...

Barrancas National Cemetery

In 1868, the U.S. Navy Yard Cemetery at the Marine Hospital was transferred to the War Department and designated Barrancas National Cemetery.

Sections 1 thru 12 of the cemetery contain the remains of 1,239 Union Civil War casualties, as well ...

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 ...

477 Tecumseh Avenue East

Built in 1874, this Italianate house originally functioned as both a residence and a bakery for the Taylor family. John Taylor Junior, a native of Weston, Ontario, married Miss Emma Taylor, a native of London, and subsequently, the couple moved ...

479 Tecumseh Avenue East

479 Tecumseh Avenue is a side-hall plan Ontario cottage, likely built between 1885 and 1887 by John Luney. A side-hall plan house has a corridor that runs from the front to the back of the house along one exterior wall ...

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 ...

Dorcheat Historical Association Museum, Inc.

Our history will begin with Dorcheat Bayou, the namesake of the organization and the stream that brought European settlement to our area and today ties our parish together. It will trace the story of local life from those years when ...

Camden Terrace or 479-489 Talbot Street

The property at 479-489 Talbot St., is also known as Camden Terrace. Like many places in London Ontario it is named after a street in London England. Camden Terrace was built around 1870, by Samuel Peters and has long been ...