Editing Street name changes, 1906

In [[1906]], the [[Pensacola City Council]] changed the name of numerous City streets. The was effected via an ordinance entitled:
:''An Ordinance to Change the Names of Certain Streets and Public Ways in the City of Pensacola.''

The ordinance was approved on [[May 10]], [[1906]]. The ordinance was designed to address situations where a single thoroughfare had two or more different names over its length, or where multiple thoroughfares shared the same name. As a result of the ordinance, the names of many streets were changed to their present-day names.

==Genesis of the ordinance==
At the City Council meeting held [[March 2]], [[1906]], a communication from Mayor [[Charles Henry Bliss]] to the City Council was read, in which the mayor "called attention to the fact that the streets in the Northern part of the City had three names, one name for the western part, one for the central part and one for the eastern part, and that in several cases there were two different streets having the same name."<ref>Minutes of the Pensacola City Council, March 2, 1906.</ref>

The Council then appointed a special committee comprised of Council members [[A. H. D'Alemberte]], [[W. B. Wright]], and [[J. M. Muldon]], and charged them with resolving the naming conflicts. The committee returned its recommendations on [[March 22]], which were incorporated into an ordinance.<ref>Minutes of the Pensacola City Council, March 28, 1906.</ref>

==Name changes==
The name changes included:
{| class="wikitable"
!Previous street name
!New street name
|-
|Pettersen Street
|[[Cypress Street]]
|-
|McClellan Street
|[[Pine Street]]
|-
|Alston Street
|Magnolia Street<br/><small>(present-day [[Gimble Street]])</small>
|-
|DeSoto Street
|[[Heinberg Street]]
|-
|Spring Street
|[[Aragon Street]]
|-
|Havana Street, Alston Street, 13th Street
|West [[Gregory Street]]
|-
|Simpson Street
|West [[Wright Street]]
|-
|Forbes Street, First Street
|[[Belmont Street]]
|-
|Howell Street, Second Street
|[[la Rua Street]]
|-
|Griswall Street, Third Street
|[[Jackson Street]]
|-
|Campbell Street, Fourth Street
|[[Gadsden Street]]
|-
|Babcock Street, Fifth Street
|[[Cervantes Street]]
|-
|Kennedy Street, Sixth Street
|[[Strong Street]]
|-
|Duval Street, Seventh Street
|[[De Soto Street]]
|-
|Wagner Street, Eighth Street
|[[Gonzalez Street]]
|-
|Rodney Street, Ninth Street
|[[Brainerd Street]]
|-
|Washington Street, Tenth Street
|[[Lloyd Street]]
|-
|Jefferson Street, Eleventh Street
|[[Lee Street]]
|-
|Adams Street, Twelfth Street
|[[Blount Street]]
|-
|Madison Street, 13th Street
|[[Moreno Street]]
|-
|Calhoun Street, 14th Street
|[[Mallory Street]]
|-
|15th Street
|[[Avery Street]]
|-
|Lakeview Avenue, 16th Street
|Sierra Street<br/><small>(present-day [[Lakeview Avenue]])</small>
|-
|17th Street
|[[Hernandez Street]]
|-
|18th Street
|[[Jordan Street]]
|-
|Palmetto Street, 19th Street
|[[Maxwell Street]]
|-
|20th Street
|[[Bobe Street]]
|-
|21st Street
|Job Street<br/><small>(present-day [[Yonge Street]])</small>
|-
|23rd Street
|[[Hatton Street]]
|-
|24th Street
|[[Cross Street]]
|-
|25th Street
|[[Fisher Street]]
|-
|26th Street
|Yonge Street<br/><small>(present-day [[Leonard Street]])</small>
|-
|27th Street
|[[Baars Street]]
|-
|28th Street
|[[Hayes Street]]
|-
|29th Street
|[[Anderson Street]]
|-
|30th Street
|[[Maura Street]]
|-
|6th Avenue
|Cordova Street<br/><small>(present-day [[6th Avenue]])</small>
|-
|7th Avenue
|San Carlos Street<br/><small>(present-day [[7th Avenue]])</small>
|-
|Cevallos Street, 8th Avenue
|[[Cevallos Street]]
|-
|Jorda Street
|[[B Street]]
|-
|Palma Street
|[[C Street]]
|-
|Maxent Street
|[[E Street]]
|-
|Sheffield Street
|[[F Street]]
|-
|Anniston Street
|[[I Street]]
|-
|Birmingham Street
|[[M Street]]
|}

===Pettersen Addition===
The ordinance also changed the names of several streets in the [[Pettersen Addition]] and portions of the [[West King Tract]]. However, only a few of these names have carried through to the present day: [[Davison Street]], [[Cahn Street]], [[Stillman Street]], and [[Water Street]].

The name changes included:
{| class="wikitable"
!Previous street name
!Street name after ordinance
!Present-day street name
|-
|First Avenue, O Street
|Pettersen Street
|[[Pace Boulevard]]
|-
|Second Avenue, P Street
|Muldon Street
|[[P Street]]
|-
|Third Avenue, Q Street
|Brent Street
|[[Q Street]]
|-
|Fourth Avenue, R Street
|Hyer Street
|[[R Street]]
|-
|Fifth Avenue, S Street
|Green Street
|[[S Street]]
|-
|Sixth Avenue, T Street
|Pfieffer Street
|[[T Street]]
|-
|Seventh Avenue
|Simpson Street
|[[U Street]]
|-
|Eighth Avenue
|Keyser Street
|[[V Street]]
|-
|Ninth Avenue
|Knowles Street
|[[W Street]]
|-
|Tenth Avenue
|Davison Street
|[[Davison Street]]<br/>[[X Street]] (north of [[Jackson Street|Jackson]])
|-
|Eleventh Avenue
|Clinton Street
|[[Y Street]]
|-
|Twelfth Avenue
|Hancock Street
|[[Myrick Street]]<br/>[[Z Street]] (north of [[La Rua Street|la Rua]])
|-
|13th Avenue
|Cahn Street
|[[Cahn Street]]
|-
|14th Avenue
|Stillman Street
|[[Stillman Street]]
|-
|15th Avenue
|Water Street
|[[Water Street]]
|}

===Other public ways===
The ordinance also named several previously-unnamed public ways:

{| class="wikitable"
!Location of public way
!Street name after ordinance
!Present-day street name
|-
|Between Oliva Street (present-day [[A Street]]) and [[Reus Street]], extending through blocks 35, 36, 37, 42, and 48
|[[Fort Street]]
|Extant today only as two spans of unimproved City right-of-way between A and [[Clubbs Street|Clubbs]] Streets and [[De Villiers Street|de Villiers]] and Reus Streets. The portions between Clubbs and de Villiers Street were vacated and are presently occupied by part of the [[Main Street Wastewater Treatment Plant]].
|-
|Between Oliva Street (present-day A Street) and de Villiers Street, extending through blocks 33, 34, 43, and 47
|[[Taylor Street]]
|Extant today only as a short span of unimproved City right-of-way between A and Clubbs Streets. The portions between Clubbs and de Villiers were vacated.
|-
|From Oliva Street (present-day A Street) eastward through blocks 44 and 46
|[[Cedar Street]]
|No longer extant, vacated
|-
|Between Oliva Street (present-day A Street) and Reus Street, extending though blocks 56, 57, and 58
|Chipley Street
|Extant today only as a short span of unimproved City right-of-way named [[Hilary Street]], between de Villiers and Reus Streets. The portions between A and de Villiers Streets were vacated.
|-
|Right-of-way of the Pensacola and Perdido Railway Company
|Pintado Street
|Railway still extant, but right-of-way is not used as any kind of public thoroughfare
|}

==References==
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