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An Insider’s Look
You can experience a self-guided foot trip through that fascinating journey with America’s First Settlement Trail, a three-mile marked path through Downtown Pensacola.
The America’s First Settlement Trail is a three-mile marked path through downtown Pensacola and the Pensacola Historic District. Along this trail are twenty stops and over seventy points of interest. Along the Trail you will see sites from as early as 1756, when the Spanish built Fort San Miguel in what is now downtown Pensacola. Tour over 260 years of history and learn the fascinating story of how Pensacola developed into the city you see today.
An Insider’s Look
You can experience a self-guided foot trip through that fascinating journey with America’s First Settlement Trail, a three-mile marked path through Downtown Pensacola.
Luna and First Settlement
In 1559, a Spanish expedition led by Tristán de Luna y Arellano, brought 1,500 soldiers, colonists, slaves, and Aztec Indians in 11 ships from Veracruz, Mexico, to Pensacola to begin the Spanish colonization of the northern Gulf Coast.
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