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*[[Airport Boulevard]] - [[Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport]]
 
*[[Airport Boulevard]] - [[Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport]]
 
*[[Barrancas Avenue]] - [[Fort Barrancas]]
 
*[[Barrancas Avenue]] - [[Fort Barrancas]]
*[[Bauer Road]] - unknown
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*[[Bauer Road]] - [[LtCol Harold William Bauer]]
 
*[[Bayou Boulevard]] - [[Bayou Texar]]
 
*[[Bayou Boulevard]] - [[Bayou Texar]]
 
*[[Beverly Parkway]] - unknown
 
*[[Beverly Parkway]] - unknown
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*[[Fairfield Drive]] - For former site of the [[Pensacola Interstate Fair]], near [[Town & Country Plaza]]
 
*[[Fairfield Drive]] - For former site of the [[Pensacola Interstate Fair]], near [[Town & Country Plaza]]
 
*[[Johnson Avenue]] - unknown
 
*[[Johnson Avenue]] - unknown
*[[Langley Avenue]] - unknown
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*[[Langley Avenue]] - Samuel Pierpont Langley, aeronautics and aircraft engineer.
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*[[Lynn Ora Drive]] - Lynn Ora Overman, wife of Charles Overman, mayor from 1961-'63.
 
*[[Michigan Avenue]] - U.S. state of [[Wikipedia:Michigan|Michigan]]. The road was originally laid out as part of a subdivision whose streets all have geographic placenames.
 
*[[Michigan Avenue]] - U.S. state of [[Wikipedia:Michigan|Michigan]]. The road was originally laid out as part of a subdivision whose streets all have geographic placenames.
 
*[[Mobile Highway]] - City of [[Mobile]], Alabama
 
*[[Mobile Highway]] - City of [[Mobile]], Alabama
 
*[[Navy Boulevard]] - U.S. Navy, [[Naval Air Station Pensacola]]
 
*[[Navy Boulevard]] - U.S. Navy, [[Naval Air Station Pensacola]]
 
*[[Nine Mile Road]] - The road's distance from [[Garden Street]]
 
*[[Nine Mile Road]] - The road's distance from [[Garden Street]]
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*[[Nobles Street]] - Nobles family, major landowners in Eastgate area.
 
*[[Pace Boulevard]] - [[Pace family]] or a specific Pace
 
*[[Pace Boulevard]] - [[Pace family]] or a specific Pace
 
*[[Texar Drive]] - [[Bayou Texar]]
 
*[[Texar Drive]] - [[Bayou Texar]]

Latest revision as of 14:59, 24 September 2021

The following is a list of streets and their namesakes.

City grid[edit]

East-west streets[edit]

Ordered from the Bay north.

North-south streets[edit]

Ordered from the Bay west.

Non-grid[edit]

In alphabetical order.