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Garden 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.

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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

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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].

Notes

  1. As of 1907 Sanborn Fire Map [1]