Community Description
Short Description: Pensacola, "The Western Gate to the Sunshine State" is the county seat of Escambia County. Known as the Cradle of Naval Aviation, nearby at the Pensacola Naval Air Station is the National Museum of Naval Aviation. Pensacola shares with St. Augustine (St. Johns County) the distinction of being Florida's two oldest incorporated cities.
Known as the "City of Five Flags," Pensacola has been under the rule of the Spanish, the British, the French, the Confederacy and the United States since the first conquistadors landed in 1559.
The name is a derivation of Pansfalaya, an Indian tribe. The Choctaw called them the "long-haired people." Pensacola is North American's first European settlement although the settlement was shortlived. But history is all around in Pensacola including the Civil War-era Fort Pickens, which once held Indian Chief Geronimo prisoner.
Local attractions include the Naval Air Station west of Pensacola with the National Museum of Naval Aviation, the 16th-century Spanish Fort San Carlos de Barrancas, the Old Pensacola Lighthouse, Fort Pickens, Pensacola Beach, Perdido Key and the historic Pensacola Village Palfox, North Hill, Seville Square and the Pensacola Beach Fishing Pier and Observation Post stretches 1,471 feet into the Gulf of Mexico. Veteran's Memorial Park has a scaled replica of the Wall South Vietnam Veterans Memorial, located on Bayfront Parkway in downtown Pensacola. The old Christ Church, built in 1832, is the state's oldest church still standing at its original location.
Pensacola Beach, part of the City of Pensacola occupies nearly eight miles of the 40-mile-long Santa Rosa barrier island. It is surrounded by the Santa Rosa Sound and Gulf of Mexico to the north and south and on either side by the federally protected Gulf Islands National Seashore. Beaches include Casino Beach, Quietwater Beach
Community events include the Fiesta of Five Flags, Blue Angels Homecoming Show each November.
Nearby communities include Goulding (1.5 miles), Brent (3.5 miles), West Pensacola (3.5 miles), Ferry Pass (5 miles), Gulf Breeze (5.5 miles), Bellview (6.5 miles), Myrtle Grove (6.5 miles) and Warrington (6.5 miles).
Population: 58,164
Year of Incorporation: 1824
Location: Northwest Florida
Median Home Price: $141,320
Tax Rate: 4.950
Taxes Levied (per capita): $194.68
Total Area: 22.64 square miles
City Hall: City of Pensacola
180 Governmental Center
PO Box 12910
Pensacola, FL 32521-0073
850.435.1603; 850.435.1611 Fax
Chamber of Commerce:
117 W Garden St, PO Box 550, Pensacola, FL 32591-0550
850.438.4081; 850.438.6369 Fax
Pensacola Beach Chamber
735 Pensacola Beach Blvd, PO Box 1174
Pensacola Beach, FL 32562-1174
850.932.1500; 800.635.4803 (tollfree); 850.492.1551 Fax
1401 East Gregory St, Pensacola, FL 32502
800.874.1234 (tollfree); 850.434.1234; 850.432.8211 Fax
800.635.4803 (tollfree)
Pensacola Beach, FL 32562
735 Pensacola Beach Blvd, PO Box 1174
Library: Pensacola Public Library
(West Florida Regional Library)
200 West Gregory St, Pensacola, FL 32501
850.436.5060; 850.436.5039 Fax
Lucia M Tryon Branch Library
(West Florida Regional Library)
5740 North Ninth Ave, Pensacola, FL 32504
850.494.7373
Southwest Branch Library
(West Florida Regional Library)
12385 Sorrento Rd, Pensacola, FL 32507
850.453.7780
Navarre Branch
8484 JAME M Harvell Rd, Pensacola, FL
850.936.6120
Jay Branch
5529 Booker Lane, Pensacola, FL
850.675.6293
Emil Buehler Naval Aviation Museum Library
1750 Radford Blvd Ste C, NAS Pensacola, FL 32508
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