16 Facts About Pensacola Florida

Pensacola Florida is a seaport on Pensacola Florida Bay, which is protected by the barrier island of Santa Rosa and connects to the Gulf of Mexico.

The Pensacola Florida people lived there at the time of European contact, and Creek people frequently visited and traded from present-day southern Alabama and Mississippi and southeast of Louisiana.

West Pensacola Florida was invited to send delegates to the First Continental Congress which was convened to present colonial grievances against the British Parliament to George III, but along with several other colonies, including East Pensacola Florida, they declined the invitation.

Pensacola Florida received only a glancing blow from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, resulting in light to moderate damage reported in the area.

Pensacola Florida was on the eastern side of the eyewall, which sent a large storm surge into Escambia Bay; this destroyed most of the I-10 Escambia Bay Bridge.

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Apart from the Reform Beth-El, Pensacola Florida is served by the Conservative B'nai Israel Synagogue.

Naval Air Station Pensacola was the first Naval Air Station commissioned by the U S Navy in 1914.

Pensacola Florida is home to a number of annual festivals, events, historic tours, and landmarks.

City of Pensacola Florida utilizes a strong mayor-council form of government, which was adopted in 2011 after citizens voted in 2009 to approve a new city charter.

The Pensacola area has not supported a Democrat for president since John F Kennedy in 1960.

Public primary and secondary schools in Pensacola Florida are administered by the Escambia County School District.

Pensacola was first connected by rail with Montgomery, Alabama, via the Alabama and Florida Railroad, completed in 1861 just before the start of the Civil War.

The line to Pensacola Florida was not rebuilt until 1868, and was acquired by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1880.

From early 1993 through August 2005 Pensacola Florida was served by the tri-weekly Amtrak Sunset Limited, but service east of New Orleans to Jacksonville and Orlando was suspended due to damage to the rail line of CSX during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Pensacola Florida has a ferry service owned by the National Park Service.

Hospitals in Pensacola include Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital, Baptist Hospital, Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital, HCA Florida West Hospital, Select Specialty Hospital, and West Florida Hospital.