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Population of Pensacola in [[1903]] was approximately 22,000 per the 1903 [[Sanborn Fire Maps]]<ref>[http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/collections/sanborn/query/UF70000206_Index.html Fire maps]</ref> A ''1908'' publication of the Electric Railway Journal puts the population somewhat lower, at 19,547.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=j47IQgaWJM4C&printsec=titlepage#PPA40,M1 ''American Street Railway Investments''. Published by the Electric Railway Journal. Fifteenth edition.]</ref> | Population of Pensacola in [[1903]] was approximately 22,000 per the 1903 [[Sanborn Fire Maps]]<ref>[http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/collections/sanborn/query/UF70000206_Index.html Fire maps]</ref> A ''1908'' publication of the Electric Railway Journal puts the population somewhat lower, at 19,547.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=j47IQgaWJM4C&printsec=titlepage#PPA40,M1 ''American Street Railway Investments''. Published by the Electric Railway Journal. Fifteenth edition.]</ref> | ||
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Population of Pensacola in 1903 was approximately 22,000 per the 1903 Sanborn Fire Maps[1] A 1908 publication of the Electric Railway Journal puts the population somewhat lower, at 19,547.[2]
Deaths
Events
- January 30 – Five tons of condemned dynamite are detonated near Fort Pickens, about a mile away from the battery. The resulting explosion created a hole "large enough to hide a house" on the beach and was felt across Pensacola Bay in the city, cracking plaster and shattering windows.[3]
References
- ↑ Fire maps
- ↑ American Street Railway Investments. Published by the Electric Railway Journal. Fifteenth edition.
- ↑ "Dynamite shook Pensacola." New York Times, January 31, 1903.
