An excerpt from the book, “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon By Mike Simmons It was an old building. The roof leaked, and the old carpet smelled. Most of it, the […]

An excerpt from the book, “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon By Mike Simmons Under Chief Hall’s direction, many changes occurred. On August 5, 1956, the new police headquarters and jail

An excerpt from the book, “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon By Mike Simmons Finally, on February 29, 1908, the new police station, located on the Northwest corner of Jefferson and

An excerpt from the book, “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon By Mike Simmons After sixteen years together, the realization hit the city fathers that one building was insufficient to conduct

An excerpt from the book, “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon By Mike Simmons One of the results of the new provisional municipality was a decision that was made to erect

An excerpt from the book, “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon By Mike Simmons When the Pensacola Police Department was reorganized in 1885, it, of course, increased in number of officers;

An excerpt from the book, “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon By Mike Simmons The Civil War brought, among other changes, the buying and selling of many properties. Two years after

An excerpt from the book, “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon By Mike Simmons      The April 12, 1838, edition of The Pensacola Gazette contained the following article: In 1836 the

An excerpt from the book, “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon By Mike Simmons On August 2, 1824, the Pensacola Gazette published an article stating that the town of Pensacola had

An excerpt from the book, “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon By Mike Simmons In 1776, Joseph Purcell drew up a new map. Included in the map was a building labeled