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Some archaic sources, such as an [[1889]] code of ordinances of the [[Provisional Municipality of Pensacola]], used the spelling ''Sarragossa''.
The ''[[Pensacola News Journal]]'' commonly uses the ''Zarragossa'' spelling. The [[Escambia County Property Appraiser]] also uses the spelling ''Zarragossa''.
Additionally, in older literature, it is not uncommon to see various alternate spellings, such as ''Zaragosa'' or ''Zarragosa''.
==British Pensacola==
In [[British Pensacola]], what is now Zaragoza Street was called '''Mansfield Street''' west of George Street ([[Palafox Street|Palafox]]) and '''Albemarle Street''' to the west.<ref>Robinson, Benjamin. [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?m=hd17J&i=75836 ''An Historical Sketch of Pensacola, Florida'']. p. 17, 1882.</ref>
==Red-light district==
In the early twentieth century, the first block west of Zaragoza Street, between [[Palafox]] and [[Baylen Street|Baylen]], became the hub of a thriving [[red-light district]] and was known as "the Line," due to the row of adjacent bordello houses. Among them was the [[Hazel]] brothel owned by [[Mollie McCoy]].
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