The small community of Bagdad, Florida seems to have always been associated with Florida's lumber industry. This history goes back to...

The Thiesen Building is located at 40 South Palafox Street on the northeast corner of Palafox Street and Romana Street. Built in 1901, it...

The White Star Market was located at 715 South Palafox Street and was owned by Elmer Ellsworth White and his wife Clara Augusta McIntosh....

The building below was the original site of the old Dannheisser Brothers' Wholesale and Retail Liqour Company at 401 South Palafox...

In 1910, one of the road camps for the county prisoners was located out near University Mall. On Sundays, the prisoners from the camp...

One of Pensacola's black heroes of World War II was Jim Dailey, who enlisted in the US Navy as a cook on August 10, 1935. After recruit...

One of the more notable memorials in St. John's cemetery is a simple marker for Mary Adelaide Wentworth Waldron, the daughter of George...

Ensign Harold John "Elly" Ellison was born on January 17, 1917 in Buffalo, New York, the son of William Cuthbert and Mae E. Ellison....

LTjg George Marvin Campbell was born on January 7, 1907 in Madras, Oregon, the son of John Edward and Sarah Alice Rodman Campbell. His...

AP1 Robert Bruce Miles was born on August 20, 1912 in Deer Lodge, MT to the union of John Frederick Miles and Flossie Mabel Watson....

As so often happened during WWII, one of our Tate High School students met and married a young aviator that caught her eye in his spiffy...

As I've said before, women carried the heaviest burden in the mourning process. During her first year of mourning plus one day she was...

Since the departed remained in the home after preparation for burial, it only made sense that the wake would be held there too. Members...

Many of our burial customs in Pensacola began to change because of the Protestant revival, especially about the afterlife. Also, the art...

Death was a part of living for our ancestors, and the burial of their love ones was a family affair. Back during the Civil War, death was...

The issue of Negroes voting in the Florida primaries began to dominate the news headlines during WWII. The main issue concerning Negroes...

Thousands of Pensacolians each year dine at one of our most iconic restaurants in the Pensacola area. But prior to this landmark diner,...

Charles Lyman Penner was born in Brunswick, Maryland on February 1, 1918 to the union of Charles W. and Italene Penner. By 1940, he had...

The following article was written by Ms. Nancy Neiger for Volume I of the Heritage of Escambia County, Florida. Ms. Neiger stated "Even...

Another Navy flyer over Okinawa was Lt. Commander Billy Victor Gates who was launching off the USS Sargent Bay. He was born on June 21,...