Editing Garden Street

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|starting_terminus=[[Pace Boulevard]] ([[Florida State Road 292|Florida 292]])
|junction=[[Barrancas Avenue]]/[[D Street]]<br/>[[A Street]]<br/>[[Spring Street]]<br/>[[Baylen Street]]<br/>[[Palafox Street]]<br/>[[Jefferson Street]]<br/>[[Tarragona Street]]
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'''Garden Street''' is a major east-west thoroughfare in downtown Pensacola.  It serves as the dividing line for all the city's north-south streets.

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 Highway 98|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 Street|Cevallos]] to [[12th Avenue]] at the bay.<ref>As of [[1907]] [http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/collections/sanborn/ Sanborn Fire Map]</ref>

==Name==
Under the [[British Pensacola|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.  The thoroughfare which developed along this row of garden lots was fittingly called Garden Street:
{{cquote|The lots south of Garden street had an area of 80 feet front and 170 in depth. North of that street they were 192 feet square, known as arpent or Garden lots, and numbered to correspond with those lying south of Garden street, which were, strictly speaking, town lots. In order to furnish each family with a garden spot, each grantee of a town lot was entitled, upon the condition of improvement, to receive a conveyance of an arpent lot of the same number as his town lot.|20px|20px|Campbell, Richard L. [http://ia311206.us.archive.org/1/items/historicalsketch00camprich/historicalsketch00camprich.pdf "Historical Sketches of Colonial Florida"]. The Williams Publishing Co., Cleveland: 1892.}}

A [[1950]] ordinance designated the portion of Garden Street west of [[Barrancas Avenue]] as [[Navy Boulevard]]; this was later amended to cover only west of [[Pace Boulevard]].<ref>Ordinance #24-50, City of Pensacola</ref>

==Images==
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Image:GardenStreetWest1908.jpg|Looking west at Palafox, c. 1908
Image:GardenStreetFountain1912.jpg|A horse-watering fountain, given by Dr. Blocker, was later moved to the [[downtown post office]]
</gallery>

==Notes & references==
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[[Category:Major thoroughfares]] [[Category:East-west streets]]