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1903

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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.[1]

Facts

References

  1. "Dynamite shook Pensacola." New York Times, January 31, 1903.
  2. Fire maps