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Louisville & Nashville Railroad grain elevator

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{{Infobox Building|image=PortGrainElevator.jpg|caption=Grain elevator and Tarragona Wharf as seen from the the [[American National Bank Building]] c. [[1910]] or [[1911]]|name=L&N grain elevator|location=[[Tarragona Wharf]]|architect=|client=[[Louisville and Nashville Railroad]]|engineer=|owner=|construction_start_date=|completion_date=[[1898]]|renovations=|date_demolished=[[1926]] ?|cost=$150,000|structural_system=|style=|size=|mapcode=}}The '''Louisville and Nashville Railroad Grain Elevatorgrain elevator''' was a [[Wikipedia:Grain elevator|grain elevator]] located at [[Tarragona Wharf]] on [[Pensacola Bay]]. It was constructed in [[1898]] and had a capacity of 500,000 bushels of wheat. The grain automatic carrier connecting the elevator to the wharf was damaged beyond repair the longest in the [[1926 hurricane]]world at the time of its construction.
Several of the "bird's eye" photographs taken of Pensacola in the early 1900s <small>(see [[1909]])</small> were taken from atop the L&N grain elevator.
It was damaged beyond repair in the [[1926 hurricane]]. ==Other images==<gallery perrow="3">Image:LNGrain1898.PNG|[[1898]], soon after constructionImage:MarineTermandGrainElev.jpg|[[1903]]Image:TarragonaandCommendenciaWharves2.jpg|[[1901]]Image:TarragonaWharf.jpg|[[1901]]Image:CourtOfRecordConstruction.jpg</gallery> ==References=={{stubrefbegin}}*J. S. Glass, editor. ''The Southern Manufacturer'', Volume V, Number 3. New Orleans: June 1901.{{refend}} 
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