- Blood at the Milton Depot
The 1905 incident involving Eubesaw Whitmire & George Warwick Allen Night fell with a damp, bone-chilling weight over the pine ridges and brick wharves of Milton, Florida, on Friday, December 8, 1905. Out on the Blackwater River, the timber schooners and charcoal barges lay hitched to their pilings in the dark, swaying against the black brackish tide that smelled of sulfur, cedar sap, and muddy marsh grass. Two miles north, the massive Bagdad sawmills had… Read more: Blood at the Milton Depot - These Streets Still Whisper
Fall True Crime Walking Tours in Pensacola By Michael Earl Simmons | Sweet Tea Murders You can walk through downtown Pensacola, admire the old buildings, stop for something good to eat, and never realize how many stories you have passed. Some were front-page news once. Names filled newspaper columns. Witnesses gave their accounts. Families waited for answers. Then the years slipped by, the businesses changed hands, and the people who remembered grew fewer. But the… Read more: These Streets Still Whisper - The Autumn Evening Walk: A Broken Promise, a Manhunt, and the Gallows of Old Pensacola
Clear autumn air, comfortable afternoon temperatures, and long shadows stretching across the brick walkways—late October is prime walking weather in downtown Pensacola. Join us this Saturday, October 24, at 4:00 PM for the Sweet Tea Murders Historic Walking Tour. Stepping off promptly from Bodacious (407 S. Palafox St.), our featured stop turns the clock back to the turn of the century to uncover one of the most astonishing chapters in West Florida legal history: the… Read more: The Autumn Evening Walk: A Broken Promise, a Manhunt, and the Gallows of Old Pensacola - Women Killers: The McGowan Killing
Fall weather has officially arrived in downtown Pensacola, making it the perfect time to explore the city’s hidden history. While our Sweet Tea Murders Historic Walking Tours step off every Saturday at 4:00 PM (departing from Bodacious, 407 S. Palafox St.), mark your calendar for a featured walk on Saturday, October 17! The forecast is shaping up to be ideal for an unhurried 90-minute stroll: crisp autumn air with an afternoon high in the comfortable… Read more: Women Killers: The McGowan Killing - The Drums Were Beating: The 1826 Murder of Major Saunders Donoho
If you drive west out of downtown Pensacola today along Cervantes Street toward Brownsville, you’re passing modern traffic lights, strip centers, and tidy neighborhood cross-streets. Down around the south end of Keys Court, where the headwaters of Bayou Chico once met untamed Florida timber, the blacktop runs smooth. Two hundred years ago, nobody was driving a paved highway out here. In the sweltering summer of 1826, this high ground was Cantonment Clinch. The United States… Read more: The Drums Were Beating: The 1826 Murder of Major Saunders Donoho