Garden Street

From Pensapedia

Garden Street
west end:	Pace Boulevard (Florida 292)
Major junctions:	Barrancas Avenue/D Street A Street Spring Street Baylen Street Palafox Street Jefferson Street Tarragona Street
east end:	Alcaniz Street

Garden Street is a major east-west thoroughfare in downtown Pensacola. It serves as the original dividing line for the city's north-south streets.

Under the British city plan drawn up around 1764 by Elias Durnford, each individual building lot in the city was issued a companion piece of ground along what was then the northern border of the town. These lots were cleared, and each family tried to grow a portion of its food supply. A thoroughfare developed along this long row of gardens and was fittingly called Garden Street.

Garden Street's western terminus is at Pace Boulevard in West Pensacola; west of that intersection the roadway continues as Navy Boulevard. Garden Street travels east from Pace Boulevard into the heart of downtown Pensacola and terminates at Alcaniz Street near St. Michael's Cemetery. For the entirety of its length Garden Street carries US 98 Business. Garden Street is four-laned for its entirety, however, between A Street and Alcaniz Street its east and west spans are separated by a median.

Historically, there was an incontiguous span of Garden that ran from Cevallos to 12th Avenue at the bay.^[1]

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Looking west at Palafox, c. 1908

A horse-watering fountain, given by Dr. Blocker, was later moved to the downtown post office

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