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Pensacola Children's Museum

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Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Pensacola Children's Museum
Phone:
+1 850-595-1559

Hours:
Sunday12pm - 4pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 4pm
Wednesday10am - 4pm
Thursday10am - 4pm
Friday10am - 4pm
Saturday10am - 4pm


The history of Pensacola, Florida begins long before the Spanish claimed founding of the modern city in 1698. The area around present-day Pensacola was inhabited by Native American peoples thousands of years before the historical era. The historical era begins with the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 16th century. In 1559 Tristan de Luna established a short-lived settlement at Pensacola Bay; it was the first multi-year European settlement in what is now the continental United States but was abandoned after two years. In the late 17th century the Spanish returned to the area to found the modern Pensacola as an outpost from which to defend their claims to Spanish Florida. The city's strategic but isolated position, combined with continued European rivalries played out in North America, led to it changing hands among different Western powers a number of times. At different times it was held by the Spanish, the French, the British, the United States, and the Confederate States of America.
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