Next month, Pensacola (population 56,000) will celebrate an anniversary.
Fiesta Days (June 4-11) are always a favorite time of the year in Pensacola. But this year “the city is marking its 450th anniversary with an ongoing birthday bash.”
A special celebration is appropriate when you are “the oldest European settlement in the United States.”
Earlier this year, in February, King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain visited Pensacola to celebrate this city “which contains so much of a shared history of Spain and the United States.”
Few cities have as visible an interest in their city as Pensacola, “for more than 20 years” archaeologists have conducted digs at sites throughout the city.
Both “locals and even tourists” have been welcomed to “engage in their past.”
“That’s,” one local archaeologist said, “one of the great things about living in a city this old.”
Click here to read more about Pensacola (Smithsonian, May 2009, p. 68)
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