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 ...

New York City Lower East Side

Simmer together borscht, matzo, strudel, tortillas, pasta, corned beef, eggrolls, and you get a unique American stew. Melting Pot describes the densely packed four square miles of New York City's Manhattan Island called the Lower East Side.

Inhabited by Indians, ...

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, ...

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 ...

230 Grand Avenue

John Charlton Dodd, the first owner of the house, immigrated to Middlesex County with his family in 1843 from Northumberland, England. With his wife, Jane Durand, Dodd fathered a family of nine children. The eldest of his sons, John G. ...