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:''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. Additionally, the change addressed a situation in which multiple streets shared the same 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>
A further ordinance, changing the names of several other streets, was approved in September 1906.
==Name changes==
The name changes included:
{| class="wikitable"
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==Petterson =Pettersen Addition===The ordinance also changed the names of several streets in the [[Petterson 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:
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|First Avenue, O Street
|Petterson Pettersen Street
|[[Pace Boulevard]]
|-
|[[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
|}
===The September ordinance===
In September, a further ordinance was passed changing the names of several other streets:
{| class="wikitable"
!Previous street name
!New street name
|-
|Unnamed street first north of [[Maura Street]]
|[[Tunis Street]]
|-
|Yonge Street
|[[Leonard Street]]
|-
|Sierra Street
|Stoddart Street<br/><small>(present-day [[Lakeview Avenue]])</small>
|-
|Job Street
|[[Yonge Street]]
|}
The September ordinance also eliminated several street names near Bayou Texar, folding them into the adjacent numbered avenues.
==References==
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