Editing Baars Family Estate

The '''Baars Family Estate''' is the collection of land holdings acquired by [[Henry Baars]] and his wife [[Mary Ellison Baars|Mary Ellison]] in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.

According to family lore, whenever Henry Baars would ask his wife what she wanted for a gift, she would instruct him to "buy land." By the time of her death in [[1923]], the Baars' holdings included more than 4,000 acres north of [[Hyde Park Road]] and the [[Pensacola city limits|city limits]], bounded roughly by [[Bayou Texar]], [[Carpenter's Creek]] and [[Davis Highway]] easterly to [[Escambia Bay]].

Most of the land has been sold and developed over the years, and now makes up the [[Cordova Park]] neighborhood and its surrounding subdivisions, the [[Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport]], the [[Cordova business district]] (including [[Cordova Mall]] and [[Sacred Heart Hospital]]) and [[Pensacola Junior College]].

Trustees of the estate include [[John Connell]] and other members of the [[Baars family]].

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