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Escambia County
Founded: July 21, 1821
Named for Escambia River
County Seat: Pensacola


Escambia Co. Courthouse and Armory
1885-1937
Demolished in 1938

Escambia County, Florida is one of Florida's original counties, along with St. Johns county, and covered the entire panhandle region and extending to the Suwannee River. St. Johns county held the remainder of the state. Escambia County had been part of Spanish colonial settlement before the United States acquired it in 1818. The historic American Indian tribes at the time of European-American settlement were the Pensacola and Creek.

The county seat, Pensacola, was first settled by the Spanish in 1559, predating the establishment of St. Augustine by six years, and was abandoned due to a significant hurricane and not populated again by Europeans until 1698, when the Spanish founded Presidio Santa Maria de Galve on the modern Naval Air Station Pensacola.

The Poarch Creek Indian Reservation is the home of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. They were formerly known as the Creek Nation East of the Mississippi. The Poarch Band of Creek Indians are a sovereign nation of Muscogee people with deep ancestral connections to lands of the Southeast United States. The Poarch Band members intermarried with Scottish and Irish traders and surnames include Weatherford, McGillivray, Durant, McGhee, Moniac, Cornell, Gibson, Colbert, Woods, and Rolin.

The area once covered by Escambia County now holds the counties of Jackson, Gadsden, Leon, Walton, Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Calhoun, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, Holmes, Liberty, Lafayette, Taylor, Bay, Okaloosa, Dixie, and Gulf.


Lighthouse in Pensacola, FL
Ca 1920's

City:
Pensacola

Town:
Century

Populated Places:
Barrineau Park • Barth • Bellview • Beulah • Bluff Springs • Bogia • Bratt • Brent • Brownsville • Cantonment • Ensley
Ferry Pass • Gonzalez • Goulding • Innerarity Point • McDavid • Millview • Molino • Myrtle Grove • Oak Grove
Pensacola Beach • Pensacola Station • Perdido Key • Pleasant Grove • Walnut Hill • Warrington • West Pensacola

Ghost Towns:
Muscogee • Pine Barren

Reservation:
Poarch Creek Indian Reservation
(also in Escambia Co., Alabama)

Surrounding Counties
Escambia Co., Ala. (north)
Santa Rosa Co., Fla. (east)
Baldwin Co., Ala. (west)


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