Pintado plan

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The Pintado plan

The Pintado plan is a street map drawn in 1812 by Vicente Sebastián Pintado, Surveyor General of Spanish West Florida.

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 map itself is held in the collections of the George A. Smathers Libraries of the University of Florida.

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:

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

Confusingly, what is now Seville Square is depicted as "Plaza de Fernando 7o" (Plaza of Ferdinand VII), while the 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 7o be renamed Plaza de la Constitución and Plaza de Sevilla be renamed Plaza de Fernando 7o.[1]

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