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New page: {{Infobox Park |park=Lee Square |image=LeeSquare.jpg |caption=Statue of Jefferson Davis at Lee Square |type=historic site |size=1.6 acres |facilities= |operator=City of Pensacola |visi...
{{Infobox Park
|park=Lee Square
|image=LeeSquare.jpg
|caption=Statue of Jefferson Davis at Lee Square
|type=historic site
|size=1.6 acres
|facilities=
|operator=[[City of Pensacola]]
|visitors=
|opened=[[June 17]], [[1891]]
|location=[[Palafox Street]], between
|mapcode=<googlemap lat="30.420127" lon="-87.217004" zoom="17" width="288" height="288">
30.419942, -87.217015, Lee Square
</googlemap>
}}
[[Lee Square]] is a memorial park in [[downtown Pensacola]]. It is located between the north- and south-bound lanes of [[Palafox Street]], between [[Jackson Street|Jackson]] and [[Gadsden Street]]s. Formerly known as '''Florida Park''', the [[North Hill]] location was the site of a Union fort during the [[Civil War]]. It was renamed Lee Square, after Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in 1891. A statue at the center of the park is dedicated to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (whose likeness tops the statue), Secretary of the Navy [[Stephen Russell Mallory]], Florida Governor [[Edward Aylesworth Perry]], and "our Confederate dead."

[[Category:Memorial parks & plazas]]

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