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Image:PalafoxStreetcars.jpg|Streetcars on South Palafox Street, early 20th century
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|decommissioned=
|direction_a=South
|former_names=George Street<br/>Calle de Palafox
|starting_terminus=[[Pensacola Bay]]
|junction=[[Main Street]]<br/>[[Garden Street]]<br/>[[Cervantes Street]]<br/>[[Fairfield Drive]]<br/>[[Pace Boulevard]]<br/>[[Brent Lane]]
|direction_b=North
|ending_terminus=[[Michigan Avenue]]/[[Brent Lane]]
|namesake=[[Wikipedia:José de Palafox y Melzi|José de Palafox y Melzi]]
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'''Palafox Street''' is a major and historic north-south artery in Pensacola. It serves as the dividing line for all the city's east-west streets. Palafox is also the southernmost segment of [[US Highway 29]], which terminates at [[Cervantes Street]] in downtown Pensacola. Palafox Street is named for [[Wikipedia:José de Palafox y Melzi|José de Palafox y Melzi]], a Spanish nobleman and military hero.
The southern terminus of Palafox Street is [[Palafox StreetPlaza de Luna]] is a major and historic north-south artery in Pensacola. It serves as the dividing line for all the city's east-west streets. Palafox is also the southernmost leg of on [[US Highway 29Pensacola Bay]]. Its northern terminus is at Michigan Avenue, which terminates at Palafox and just north of [[Garden StreetBeverly Parkway]]s in downtown Pensacola. Palafox Street is named for /[[Wikipedia:José de Palafox y Melzi|José de Palafox y MelziBrent Lane]], a Spanish nobleman where the road splits into Pensacola Boulevard and military heroOld Palafox Highway.
Between Garden and [[Wright Street]]s there is a median separating the northbound and southbound lanes, where tracks of the [[Pensacola streetcar system]] formerly ran. The median has since been landscaped and is home to [[Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza]] and the [[9-11 Homage to America]] memorial. During the summer months, the median is used for the [[Palafox Market]]. ==Palafox Place==In [[1979]], the City of Pensacola renamed South Palafox Street south of between [[Garden Street|Garden]] is also known and [[Government Street]]s as '''Palafox Place''' and .<ref>Ordinance #63-79, City of Pensacola.</ref> This section of Palafox is one of Pensacola's most bustling retail districts, although its significance has waned in recent years as retailers have moved out toward shopping centers and malls. The southern terminus of ==History==In [[British Pensacola]], Palafox was called '''George Street ''', for [[Wikipedia:George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]].<ref>Robinson, Benjamin. [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?m=hd11J&i=75836 ''An Historical Sketch of Pensacola, Florida'']. p. 11, 1882.</ref> The street is at present on the [[Plaza de Luna1812]] on [[Pensacola BayPintado plan]], where it is labelled '''Calle de Palafox'''. Its northern terminus is just north of After a [[Michigan AvenueFebruary 3]]/, [[Brent Lane1892]]ordinance by the provisional municipality of Pensacola, where the road splits into street was paved and [[Pensacola Boulevardstreetcar system|streetcar lines]] (US 29) and were placed by the [[Old Palafox HighwayPensacola Terminal Company]].<ref>''[http://books.google.com/books?id=WGE4AAAAIAAJ The Federal Reporter]'', 1895.</ref>
==Images==
<gallery>
Image:PalafoxStreetcars.jpg|Streetcars on South Palafox Street, early 20th century
Image:ParadePalafoxSanCarlos.jpg|Parade on Palafox Street, first half of 20th century
Image:WharfFire.jpg|South Palafox Street, [[1955]]. Smoke from wharf fire visible in background.
Image:Palafox1960.jpg|Palafox Street from [[Jackson Street]] south to the [[Pensacola Bay|Bay]]; [[First Baptist Church]] prominently visible at bottom left. Circa [[1960]].
Image:Npalafox-1964.jpg|North Palafox Street, [[1964]]
</gallery>
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==References=={{reflist}} [[Category:Major thoroughfares]] [[Category:North-south streets]]
