A Pensacola News Journal article of November 2, 1922 announced that the Sparks circus was coming to town! However, this time the big top...

Captain Milton Benjamin Frank Sr. was born on February 11, 1862 in Baltimore, MD, the son of Captain Milton Bailey Frank (1834-1880) and...

Isaac "Ike" Benjamin Krentzman was born on February 7, 1881 in Russia, the son of John (1858-1916) and Sarah Krentzman. His parents were...

Nathan Anschel Son (1848-1922) immigrated to America from Hamburg, Germany sometime around 1870. The earliest record of his arrival was...

In August 1905, a three-masted sailing ship nosed its way into Pensacola Bay and dropped anchor just off Palafox Wharf and waited to...

Peter Lazarus Diamond was born on October 16, 1849 in Escambia County, Alabama. By 1851, he and his parents had moved to Milton, Florida...

Dr. James S. Herron was a notable local physician in the Pensacola area. He was born in Chambersburg, Virginia in 1828 and raised in...

In the old days there was no way to get across Escambia Bay to Gulf Breeze or Pensacola Beach except by boat because the Bay Bridge would...

William R. Taylor was born on September 24, 1883 in Illinois to the union of William Henry Taylor and Emily D. Barcroft. His parents were...

One of the most famous steam locomotives in America was named "The General." It was built in 1855 for the Western & Atlantic Railroad,...

On April 26 1865, the Army of Tennessee was officially surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina and the soldiers marched off to...

When the US Navy decided to build the new Florida class of battleships, the first off the line was the USS Florida (BB-30). The keel of...

Amid the tombstones of the Lower Pine Barren Cemetery in Escambia County stands a lonely grave of a young 12-year old girl. Located off...

Early on the morning of September 3, 1925, a US Navy airship was flying over Noble County, Ohio when it encountered huge thunderstorms....

Early in the war, the Pensacola boys in the South Pacific were introduced to a local character by the name of “Washing Machine Charlie.”...

To float felled timber to the rivers, the timber companies used wooden dams to back the creek waters up so the company could float them...

Hubert Temple Waters was born in 1903 to William Crittendon Waters and Mamie Davis of Grandview, Texas. His father supported his family...

Charles Franklin Daniels was born in Alabama on February 16, 1903 to the union of Captain (name not rank) Daniels and Rosa Clark. By...

Escambia County High School was built in 1909 and burnt down in 1923. Another building was built on the same site and opened 1924-1926...

Francis Napoleon Terry was born on October 4, 1844 in Girard, Russell County, Alabama. He moved to Florida in 1858 just three years...