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The Community Advisory Group overseeing the Miraflores Burial Ground Study is considering what's next in the hunt for more historical records and scientific proof of burials at the site.

The millhand and WWI vet was bit by a rabid dog and died two days later, prompting a campaign to inoculate dogs throughout Escambia County.

Teachers often ignore the Spanish colonization of Florida. That’s too bad. Taught correctly, it could instill patriotism in many Americans. But that’s not what PBS did when it finally brought this history to “viewers like you.” It presented instead a tendentious, revisionist version intended only to depict America as racist and oppressive.

The 10 members of the Miraflores Burial Ground Study Community Advisory Group will collect feedback on how to best commemorate the historic find.

An national expert stopped at St. Michaels Cemetery in Pensacola to teach citizens how to restore historic headstones and monuments.

An national expert stopped at St. Michaels Cemetery in Pensacola to teach citizens how to restore historic headstones and monuments.

An national expert stopped at St. Michaels Cemetery in Pensacola to teach citizens how to restore historic headstones and monuments.

Pensacola's St. Michael's Cemetery is one of historic cemetery stops on this year's 48-State Tour.

July 18, 2021 Escambia County celebrated its 200th anniversary Saturday. A sunrise “Mvskoke Mekusvpkv” prayer by the Santa Rosa Creek Tribe began the festivities, followed by a formal program, exactly 200 years after the exchange of Spanish and American flags. “There were a wide range of events taking place this weekend to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the transition of Florida from being a colony of a foreign European country to a Territory of the United States,” said 200th Com...

St. Michaels Cemetery is an outdoor museum chronicling our communitys rich and diverse history and heritage.