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<div style="float:right; margin-left:15px; width:250px; height:350px; overflow:hidden;"><googlemap version="0.9" lat="30.442458" lon="-87.18956" type="satellite" zoom="13" width="250" height="350"></googlemap></div>'''Bayou Texar''' is a [[Wikipedia:Bayou|bayou]] in East Pensacola, separating the [[East Hill]] neighborhood from [[Cordova Park]] and [[East Pensacola Heights]] neighbourhoodsneighborhood. It is an [[Wikipedia:estuary|estuary]], fed by [[Carpenter's Creek]] and a number of small springs, and empties into [[Pensacola Bay]] near the [[17th Avenue railroad trestle]] and [[Wayside Park]]. ==Environmental Issues==The Bayou is often considered dirty and unsafe. This is due to the apparent draining of sewage into the water and oil from boats passing through. Swimming in the water is often discouraged. ==Bridges==The bayou is spanned in two places: to the north by [[12th Avenue]] (after it merges with [[Fairfield Drive]]), and to the south by the [[Dr. Phillip. Philip A. Payne Bridge]], which carries [[Cervantes Street]] ([[US Highway 90|US 90]]).
The first bridge to span Bayou Texar was a wooden span constructed in [[1911]] at a cost of $3,700. The wooden bridge was 1,050 feet long and 20 feet wide.<ref>Pensacola Historical Society. ''Pensacola in Vintage Postcards''. Arcadia, 2005.</ref>
At some point, the wooden bridge was replaced with a concrete bridge which connected [[Gadsden Street]] on the west bank to [[Cervantes Street]] on the east bank. Prior to the bridge approach, traffic transitioned from Cervantes to Gadsden between [[15th Avenue|15th]] and [[16th Avenue]]s, through what is now [[Andalusia Square]]<ref>[[:Image:CervantesSt1954.jpg|Image of Cervantes-to-Gadsden transition]]</ref>.
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{{geo-stub}}[[Category:Bodies of water]] [[Category:Bayou Texar]]