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[[Image:Plan1812-halfres.jpg|thumb|right|The Pintado plan]]
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[[Image:Plan1812-halfres.jpg|thumb|right|''Plano, Panzacola, 1812'']]
The '''Pintado plan''' is a street map drawn in [[1812]] by [[Vicente Sebastián Pintado]], Surveyor General of [[Spanish West Florida]].
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The '''Pintado plan''' is a street map drawn by [[Vicente Sebastián Pintado]] in [[1812]].  It was published the following year under the title '''''Plano, Panzacola, 1812'''''.
  
The very lengthy but full title of the map is
 
:''Borrador del nuevo proyecto para el arreglo de dos plazas en la Poblacion de Panzacola á los extremos oriental y occidental de la actual determinacion de la extension de cada una y la posicion y dimensiones de los Solares para fabricar el Templo y otros Edificios publicos''.
 
 
The plan was drawn after a Spanish decree mandated the renaming of plazas and streets within the town, as well the establishment of a new church and government buildings.  Pintado's plan received the approval of the city council on [[December 7]], [[1813]].<ref>[http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/luso/usflorida.html The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps (Library of Congress)]</ref>
 
 
Copies of the map are held in the collections of the [[Wikipedia:George A. Smathers Libraries|George A. Smathers Libraries]] of the [[Wikipedia:University of Florida|University of Florida]] and in the ''Vicente Sebastián Pintado Papers'' at the [[Wikipedia:Library of Congress|Library of Congress]].
 
 
==Streets==
 
 
The map depicts the street grid in the core old city of Pensacola; most of the grid and street names depicted are still intact today.  Among the streets named on the Pintado plan are:
 
The map depicts the street grid in the core old city of Pensacola; most of the grid and street names depicted are still intact today.  Among the streets named on the Pintado plan are:
 
*[[Palafox Street]] (Calle de Palafox)
 
*[[Palafox Street]] (Calle de Palafox)
 
*[[Tarragona Street]] (Calle de Tarragona)
 
*[[Tarragona Street]] (Calle de Tarragona)
*[[Alcaniz Street]] (Calle de Alcaniz)
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*[[Alcaniz Street]] (Calle de Alcaniz}
 
*[[Romana Street]] (Calle de Romana)
 
*[[Romana Street]] (Calle de Romana)
 
*[[Intendencia Street]] (Calle de la Intendencia)
 
*[[Intendencia Street]] (Calle de la Intendencia)
 
*[[Government Street]] (Calle de Gobierno)
 
*[[Government Street]] (Calle de Gobierno)
 
*[[Church Street]] (Calle de la Iglesia)
 
*[[Church Street]] (Calle de la Iglesia)
*[[Commendencia Street]] (Calle de la Comandancia)
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*[[Commendencia Street]] (Calle de la Commandancia)
 
*[[Barracks Street]] (Calle de los Quarteles)
 
*[[Barracks Street]] (Calle de los Quarteles)
 
*[[Brue Street]] and [[Manressa Street]] are depicted at the top of the map as "Bru" and "Manresa"
 
*[[Brue Street]] and [[Manressa Street]] are depicted at the top of the map as "Bru" and "Manresa"
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What is now [[Zaragoza Street]] is not contiguous on the Pintado plan, but rather split among streets labelled "Calle de la Recova" and "Calle del Tivoli de Reding".  The shoreline is depicted near where present-day [[Main Street]] would be.
 
What is now [[Zaragoza Street]] is not contiguous on the Pintado plan, but rather split among streets labelled "Calle de la Recova" and "Calle del Tivoli de Reding".  The shoreline is depicted near where present-day [[Main Street]] would be.
  
==Plazas==
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Confusingly, what is now [[Seville Square]] is depicted as "Plaza de Fernando 7<sup>0</sup>" (Plaza of Ferdinand VII), while the [[Plaza Ferdinand VII|plaza to the west that currently bears that name]] is called "Plaza de la Constitución" (Constitution Plaza).
Confusingly, what is now [[Seville Square]] is depicted as "Plaza de Fernando 7<sup>o</sup>" (Plaza of Ferdinand VII), while the [[Plaza Ferdinand VII|plaza to the west that currently bears that name]] is called "Plaza de la Constitución" (Constitution Plaza).
 
 
 
This is the result of a Spanish decree dated [[August 14]], [[1812]], which mandated that Plaza de Fernando 7<sup>o</sup> be renamed Plaza de la Constitución (in honor of the [[Wikipedia:Spanish Constitution of 1812|Spanish Constitution of 1812]]) and Plaza de Sevilla be renamed Plaza de Fernando 7<sup>o</sup>.<ref>[http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/luso/usflorida.html The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps (Library of Congress)]</ref>
 
 
 
==Legend==
 
Various lots and buildings are marked on the map by letters; below the map is a corresponding legend:
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
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!Letter
 
!Label
 
!Translation
 
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|A
 
|''...casa Consistorial de Guardia principal''
 
|Consistorial house of the main guard
 
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|B
 
|''Idem para Carcel publica''
 
|As before, for public jail
 
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|C
 
|''Idem para contaduria y Aduana''
 
|As before, for accounting and customs office
 
|-
 
|D
 
|''Illegible''
 
|''Illegible''
 
|-
 
|E
 
|''Terreno que se reserva para Recova y Almacenes publicos''
 
|Land reserved for public warehouses and market
 
|-
 
|F
 
|
 
|
 
|-
 
|G
 
|
 
|
 
|-
 
|H
 
|
 
|
 
|-
 
|I
 
|''Terreno reservado para Hospital Nacional''
 
|Land reserved for domestic hospital
 
|-
 
|J
 
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|-
 
|K
 
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|L
 
|''Solar para fabricar Almances Nacionales''
 
|Lot for constructing ?
 
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|M
 
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|N
 
|''Que se da pagando estas su estimacion, sobre lo que se signio expediente''
 
|?
 
|}
 
 
 
==References==
 
<small><references/></small>
 
  
 
[[Category:Maps]]
 
[[Category:Maps]]

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