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The Lower South, Chap. 4 – Pensacola Bay

The area around Pensacola Bay had long been home to Native Americans prior to the arrival of the first Spanish explorers in the 1500’s.  In 1559 the Spanish established one of the first European settlements in the continental United States but it was abandoned after two years when the impact of a hurricane devastated the […]