John Ely Spoon was born in Chambers County, Alabama on July 27, 1841, the son of Levy J. (farmer and constable) and Eliza S. Spoon....

On February 6, 1913, a grave was being dug in the Roberts Cemetery (now known as the Gonzalez United Methodist Church Cemetery). It was...

On the afternoon of February 5, 1913, a L&N train pulled into the Pensacola depot on Wright Street at 4:30 PM. Attached to the train was...

Ten minutes before the McMillan Planing Mill at Pine Barren was to shut down, one of their fireman was about to turn a release valve....

At 8:00 PM on the night of June 17, 1936, two hundred young men and women walked down the aisle of the Pensacola High School auditorium...

Although not a native of Pensacola, he became an adopted Pensacolian through marriage. Arthur Charles Dudley Jr. was born in Panama City,...

During the early morning hours of August 14, 1903, citizens of Pensacola were anxiously waiting to see what the West Indian hurricane was...

Today’s generation feel that they are the ones who invented social media! Not necessarily true! Of course, they certainly have been the...

Lt. Henry "Harry" Wright Thompson was born on November 14, 1891 in Bagdad, Florida, the son of William Henry Thompson (1859-1928) and...

As the decades in Pensacola flew by, the act of kissing became a source of vast conversation among its citizens as reflected by the News...

At the turn of the last century, Pensacola toasted a talented young lady with a beautiful singing voice by the name of Emilia Montanari,...

During WWI, Pensacolians flocked to the call to arms of patriotism after Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare on US shipping....

Private William Columbus Beck was born on July 2, 1836 in Baker County, Georgia, the son of Jesse Beck (1798-1883) and Sarah Ann Woodcock...

The "Father of American Police," August Vollmer is considered to be the first to use motorcycles on patrol in 1911 in Berkley,...

In downtown Pensacola, there is an obscure grocery store that is well-known for their delicatessen sandwiches and salads. It's called the...

By 1864, Ft. Barrancas commander General Alexander Asboth received news that most of the Confederates had been transferred out of the...

Once upon a time in Pensacola, a controversial film was introduced to our movie theaters for viewing by the public. The 1915 film was...

On October 21, 1918, the small Santa Rosa community of Mulat was introduced to the sting of death from the dreaded Spanish Influenza. Up...

Domestic violence has always been with us as long as men and women have been together throughout history. But how this issue has been...

Once upon a time there was an uptown jewelry store in downtown Milton, owned and managed by a former soldier of the British Army. The...