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|road_name=Government Street
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|direction_a=west
|former_names=Pitt Street<br/>Butt Street<br/>Calle de Gobierno
|starting_terminus=[[Pace Boulevard]]
|junction=[[Spring Street]]<br/>[[Baylen Street]]<br/>[[Palafox Street]]
|direction_b=east
|ending_terminus=[[Cevallos Street]]
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'''Government Street''' is an east-west street in [[downtown Pensacola]].
The street is present on the [[1812]] [[Pintado plan]], where it is labelled '''Calle de Gobierno'''.
Government Street runs from its western terminus at South [[Pace Boulevard]] uninterrupted to its eastern terminus just east of [[Cevallos Street]] in a residential block.
==British Pensacola==In [[British Pensacola]], what is now Government Street was called '''Pitt Street''' west of George Street ([[Palafox Street|Palafox]] is ) and '''Butt Street''' to the demarcator between East and West Government Streetswest.<ref>Robinson, Benjamin. [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?m=hd17J&i=75836 ''An Historical Sketch of Pensacola, Florida'']. p. 17, 1882.</ref>
==Notable places==
*[[Plaza Ferdinand VII]] is located south of Government between [[Palafox Street|Palafox]] and [[Jefferson Street]]s.
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|south=Zaragoza
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==References==
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[[Category:Roads]] [[Category:East-west streets]]
