Pensacola's Scenic Highway is the first of Florida's official scenic highways, completed in 1929 for one million dollars. The road is approximately eleven miles long, stretching from the Bayou Texar bridge at the southern end to the U.S. 90 bridge over Escambia River at the northern end. The highway both winds through wetlands and the highest coastline in Florida, at fifty to eighty five feet above the Escambia Bay. The Scenic Highway area's history began long before the road was built. Yamassee Indians settled the area around 500 years ago. One of Don Tristan de Luna's wrecked ships was discovered in the early 1990s near Emanuel Point, at the southern end of the highway. De Luna briefly settled the Pensacola area in 1559, but a powerful hurricane caused the settlement to fail. The area played a major role in Pensacola's economy in the 18th and 19th Centuries, with brickmaking and turpentining companies setting up in the area. Today, the Scenic Highway corridor is home to a number of stores, restaurants, and neighborhoods.