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{{Infobox Organization
|name=Pensacola Historical Society
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|formation=[[1933]]
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|executive=[[Robyn A. Mainor]]
|board=[[Sandra Johnson Jordan]], ''Pres.''<br/>[[Elizabeth Vickers]], ''Vice Pres.''<br/>[[Dave Edwards]], ''Secretary''<br/>[[Wendy Simon]], ''Treasurer''<br/>[[Vince Margiotti, Jr.]], ''Parliamentarian''
|staff=[[Jacki Wilson]], ''Curator of Research and Collections''<br/>[[Wendi C. Davis]], ''Curator of Exhibits''
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|website=[http://www.pensacolahistory.org/ www.pensacolahistory.org]
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The '''Pensacola Historical Society''' is an non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting [[Pensacola]] history. The Society's current executive director is [[Robyn A. Mainor]].
The Society was founded on [[February 14]], [[1933]], with twenty-one members meeting at [[T. T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum|City Hall]]. At the next meeting, held on [[March 2]] of the same year, in the [[Shangtung Room]] of the [[San Carlos Hotel]], the Society's charter and by-laws were ratified. On [[March 25]] the Society was incorporated as a non-profit educational organization.
In [[1938]], The Society opened a museum in the [[Dorothy Walton houseHouse]], located at 137 West [[Romana Street]], which had been purchased and then donated for use as a museum by [[T. T. Wentworth]]. Unfortunately, the number of visitors to the museum and volunteers to staff it declined during World War II, and the museum closed on [[May 5]], [[1944]]. The displays and artifacts were moved to Wentworth's home in Ensley, next to which he eventually built a [[T. T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum|museum]] of his own, which opened in [[1957]]. The Society itself also fell into inactivity during the war.
The Pensacola Historical Society was reorganized in [[1952]]. Initially, meetings were held in the Chamber of Commerce offices, but members including [[Leila Abercrombie]] quickly began working to obtain a space in which the Society could meet and reopen a musuem. After the library relocated from [[Old Christ Church]], the [[City of Pensacola]] allowed the Society to use the church, and they opened a new museum there on [[August 15]], [[1960]].
