Ferry Pass

Ferry Pass is a community in Northeast Pensacola. Present day Davis Highway was once named Ferry Pass Highway.

Before the Pensacola - Tallahassee Road (now Interstate 10) bridge and the "fill" bridge over to Pace were constructed over Escambia Bay, there was a ferry service that carried passengers to unknown point(s)in Santa Rosa County.

The old "Map of Escambia County" in the Escambia County Official Records Office dated November 1908 shows Ferry Pass as being located at the Tallahassee township base line at the mouth of Escambia River.

The "Missing Link" was a ferry operated by Simeon Otis beginning in 1916 to take passengers across the bay to Mulat in Santa Rosa County. The ferry dock was at the present-day intersection of Olive Road and Scenic Highway, now occupied by large homes at Cypress Point. The ferry could handle up to 18 automobiles. The Pensacola Journal posted the ferry schedule each day. Although most of Ferry Pass is to the west of here, this was the only water access.