500 block N Palafox, west side
![1770s Plan of Fort George, Library of Congress](https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/a1s-trail/Stop-8-Fort-George-map.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=320&s=cf135ba8daa9047636f56a5fca213f08 320w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/a1s-trail/Stop-8-Fort-George-map.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=540&s=3a837c9f7500124aa7a2c04f1f83a457 540w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/a1s-trail/Stop-8-Fort-George-map.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=768&s=252a97d74798339e36931a35870e7985 768w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/a1s-trail/Stop-8-Fort-George-map.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=1024&s=d0424f6e34ced7740ccdcd9aee03a336 1024w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/a1s-trail/Stop-8-Fort-George-map.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=1200&s=0091448510079fc8a2b184c82b1ed73f 1149w)
Fort George was a fort built by the British atop Gage hill and was the largest of the trio of forts built upon the hill. The fort belonged to the British until the siege of Pensacola by the Spanish. In 1781 under Bernardo de Galvez, the Spanish seized the fort and renamed it, Fort San Miguel. However, the Spanish did not occupy the fort, and it began to deteriorate. During the Civil War, the Union placed a slight batter called Fort McClellan on the site. Fort George is a site on the Colonial Archeological Trail.
First Baptist Church
![Allen Chapel AME Church, 1928, UWF Archives](https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/a1s-trail/Stop-8-Allen-Chapel-AME-Church-1928.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=320&s=8668392ba2c413e132b37a7fb78862c5 320w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/a1s-trail/Stop-8-Allen-Chapel-AME-Church-1928.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=540&s=704a970f1ecf31544695083334a4af84 540w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/a1s-trail/Stop-8-Allen-Chapel-AME-Church-1928.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=768&s=feb2f61f2614b818fbd9e1c2d30277af 768w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/a1s-trail/Stop-8-Allen-Chapel-AME-Church-1928.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=1024&s=6cff7e2665d49839962e28f0592723e5 1024w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/a1s-trail/Stop-8-Allen-Chapel-AME-Church-1928.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=1200&s=1fbe944fd0ee8ec1f99e31d07a0fb923 1200w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/a1s-trail/Stop-8-Allen-Chapel-AME-Church-1928.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=1440&s=8364a368a18808d9af7e2f83f2ba2cd4 1440w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/a1s-trail/Stop-8-Allen-Chapel-AME-Church-1928.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=1920&s=aa4a1a24da807be1906921328340a964 1920w, https://pensacola.imgix.net/images/a1s-trail/Stop-8-Allen-Chapel-AME-Church-1928.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&position=50%2050&q=80&w=2560&s=176a2f8ff56345dbd6f1afee4831817e 2368w)
Located at 500 N Guillemard Street, is Allen Chapel AME Church.
Rev. Henry Call was an enslaved person from Jackson County, Florida. Call was forced to follow his enslaver, Mr. White, who joined the Confederate Army during the civil war. During the battle of Lookout Mountain, Mr. White was killed. Call went to recover his body when he came across an African American man who was also slain in battle. The man held a pamphlet in his pocket, which Call took and read. What was contained in the pamphlet was a Christian Recorder for the AME church. Call was inspired by what he read that day and set about founding the first AME church in his home state of Florida. Though Henry Call was not ordained yet by the AME church, he founded the First AME Church in the state located in Cottondale, Florida, according to his son. However, due to not being ordained, Call did not have the official authority to create organizations legally. This was the case until he wrote the bishop, and during an AME conference in South Carolina, he was ordained. Then in 1866, after officially finding out about the Emancipation, the newly ordained Rev. Call legally organized the Allen Chapel AME Church in Pensacola. Before a church was constructed, meetings for the Allen Chapel congregations occurred in different homes throughout the city. The Church currently pictured was constructed years later when Dr. Rev. Edwards paid off the debts of the Church and prepared to build the brick church. The building was designed and constructed by S. S. Moses, a member of the Church. The Church's remodeling was overseen by Rev. Fisher, the first person who converted to the Allen Chapel and lived long enough to become the pastor.
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