Street name changes, 1906

In 1906, the Pensacola City Council changed the name of numerous City streets. The was effected via an ordinance entitled:

An Ordinance to Change the Names of Certain Streets and Public Ways in the City of Pensacola.

The ordinance was approved on May 10, 1906. The ordinance was designed to address situations where a single thoroughfare had two or more different names over its length, or where multiple thoroughfares shared the same name. As a result of the ordinance, the names of many streets were changed to their present-day names.

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Genesis of the ordinance

At the City Council meeting held March 2, 1906, a communication from Mayor Charles Henry Bliss to the City Council was read, in which the mayor "called attention to the fact that the streets in the Northern part of the City had three names, one name for the western part, one for the central part and one for the eastern part, and that in several cases there were two different streets having the same name."

The Council then appointed a special committee comprised of Council members A. H. D'Alemberte, W. B. Wright, and J. M. Muldon, and charged them with resolving the naming conflicts. The committee returned its recommendations on March 22, which were incorporated into an ordinance.

A further ordinance, changing the names of several other streets, was approved in September 1906.

Name changes

The name changes included:

Previous street name	New street name
Pettersen Street	Cypress Street
McClellan Street	Pine Street
Alston Street	Magnolia Street (present-day Gimble Street)
DeSoto Street	Heinberg Street
Spring Street	Aragon Street
Havana Street, Alston Street, 13th Street	West Gregory Street
Simpson Street	West Wright Street
Forbes Street, First Street	Belmont Street
Howell Street, Second Street	la Rua Street
Griswall Street, Third Street	Jackson Street
Campbell Street, Fourth Street	Gadsden Street
Babcock Street, Fifth Street	Cervantes Street
Kennedy Street, Sixth Street	Strong Street
Duval Street, Seventh Street	De Soto Street
Wagner Street, Eighth Street	Gonzalez Street
Rodney Street, Ninth Street	Brainerd Street
Washington Street, Tenth Street	Lloyd Street
Jefferson Street, Eleventh Street	Lee Street
Adams Street, Twelfth Street	Blount Street
Madison Street, 13th Street	Moreno Street
Calhoun Street, 14th Street	Mallory Street
15th Street	Avery Street
Lakeview Avenue, 16th Street	Sierra Street (present-day Lakeview Avenue)
17th Street	Hernandez Street
18th Street	Jordan Street
Palmetto Street, 19th Street	Maxwell Street
20th Street	Bobe Street
21st Street	Job Street (present-day Yonge Street)
23rd Street	Hatton Street
24th Street	Cross Street
25th Street	Fisher Street
26th Street	Yonge Street (present-day Leonard Street)
27th Street	Baars Street
28th Street	Hayes Street
29th Street	Anderson Street
30th Street	Maura Street
6th Avenue	Cordova Street (present-day 6th Avenue)
7th Avenue	San Carlos Street (present-day 7th Avenue)
Cevallos Street, 8th Avenue	Cevallos Street
Jorda Street	B Street
Palma Street	C Street
Maxent Street	E Street
Sheffield Street	F Street
Anniston Street	I Street
Birmingham Street	M Street

Pettersen Addition

The ordinance also changed the names of several streets in the Pettersen Addition and portions of the West King Tract. However, only a few of these names have carried through to the present day: Davison Street, Cahn Street, Stillman Street, and Water Street.

The name changes included:

Previous street name	Street name after ordinance	Present-day street name
First Avenue, O Street	Pettersen Street	Pace Boulevard
Second Avenue, P Street	Muldon Street	P Street
Third Avenue, Q Street	Brent Street	Q Street
Fourth Avenue, R Street	Hyer Street	R Street
Fifth Avenue, S Street	Green Street	S Street
Sixth Avenue, T Street	Pfieffer Street	T Street
Seventh Avenue	Simpson Street	U Street
Eighth Avenue	Keyser Street	V Street
Ninth Avenue	Knowles Street	W Street
Tenth Avenue	Davison Street	Davison Street X Street (north of Jackson)
Eleventh Avenue	Clinton Street	Y Street
Twelfth Avenue	Hancock Street	Myrick Street Z Street (north of la Rua)
13th Avenue	Cahn Street	Cahn Street
14th Avenue	Stillman Street	Stillman Street
15th Avenue	Water Street	Water Street

Other public ways

The ordinance also named several previously-unnamed public ways:

Location of public way	Street name after ordinance	Present-day street name
Between Oliva Street (present-day A Street) and Reus Street, extending through blocks 35, 36, 37, 42, and 48	Fort Street	Extant today only as two spans of unimproved City right-of-way between A and Clubbs Streets and de Villiers and Reus Streets. The portions between Clubbs and de Villiers Street were vacated and are presently occupied by part of the Main Street Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Between Oliva Street (present-day A Street) and de Villiers Street, extending through blocks 33, 34, 43, and 47	Taylor Street	Extant today only as a short span of unimproved City right-of-way between A and Clubbs Streets. The portions between Clubbs and de Villiers were vacated.
From Oliva Street (present-day A Street) eastward through blocks 44 and 46	Cedar Street	No longer extant, vacated
Between Oliva Street (present-day A Street) and Reus Street, extending though blocks 56, 57, and 58	Chipley Street	Extant today only as a short span of unimproved City right-of-way named Hilary Street, between de Villiers and Reus Streets. The portions between A and de Villiers Streets were vacated.
Right-of-way of the Pensacola and Perdido Railway Company	Pintado Street	Railway still extant, but right-of-way is not used as any kind of public thoroughfare

The September ordinance

In September, a further ordinance was passed changing the names of several other streets:

Previous street name	New street name
Unnamed street first north of Maura Street	Tunis Street
Yonge Street	Leonard Street
Sierra Street	Stoddart Street (present-day Lakeview Avenue)
Job Street	Yonge Street

The September ordinance also eliminated several street names near Bayou Texar, folding them into the adjacent numbered avenues.